David Nelson
E152530
David Nelson was an American actor and director best known as the elder son on the classic television series "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Nelson canonical | 17 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T396396 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Nelson Context triple: [Ozzie Nelson, child, David Nelson]
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A.
Johnston McCulley
Johnston McCulley was an American writer best known as the creator of the swashbuckling masked hero Zorro.
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B.
William Nolan
William Nolan is an editor known for his work on editions of classic adventure literature, including "The Mark of Zorro."
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C.
Richard Stolley
Richard Stolley was an influential American magazine editor best known for shaping modern celebrity journalism as the founding managing editor of People magazine.
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D.
Nat Wartels
Nat Wartels was a publisher best known as a co-founder and driving force behind the American publishing house Crown Publishers.
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E.
Johnny Whitaker
Johnny Whitaker is an American former child actor best known for his roles in the TV series "Family Affair" and films such as "Tom Sawyer" (1973) and "The Biscuit Eater."
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Nelson Target entity description: David Nelson was an American actor and director best known as the elder son on the classic television series "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet."
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A.
Johnston McCulley
Johnston McCulley was an American writer best known as the creator of the swashbuckling masked hero Zorro.
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B.
William Nolan
William Nolan is an editor known for his work on editions of classic adventure literature, including "The Mark of Zorro."
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C.
Richard Stolley
Richard Stolley was an influential American magazine editor best known for shaping modern celebrity journalism as the founding managing editor of People magazine.
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D.
Nat Wartels
Nat Wartels was a publisher best known as a co-founder and driving force behind the American publishing house Crown Publishers.
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E.
Johnny Whitaker
Johnny Whitaker is an American former child actor best known for his roles in the TV series "Family Affair" and films such as "Tom Sawyer" (1973) and "The Biscuit Eater."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
ⓘ
film director ⓘ human ⓘ television director ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1940s ⓘ |
| birthName |
David Oswald Nelson
ⓘ
linked to:
Eric Hilliard Nelson
|
| burialPlace | Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, California, United States ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | colon cancer ⓘ |
| child |
Gunnar Nelson
ⓘ
Matthew Nelson ⓘ Tracy Nelson ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1936-10-24 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2011-01-11 ⓘ |
| directed | The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | American of Swedish descent ⓘ |
| familyName | Nelson ⓘ |
| father | Ozzie Nelson ⓘ |
| genre | television ⓘ |
| givenName | David ⓘ |
| imdbId | nm0625429 ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| medium |
film
ⓘ
television ⓘ |
| mother | Harriet Nelson ⓘ |
| name | David Nelson ⓘ |
| notableRelative | Kristin Harmon ⓘ |
| notableRole | David Nelson on The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
film director ⓘ television director ⓘ |
| partOf |
The Nelson family entertainment dynasty
ⓘ
linked to:
Nelson family
|
| placeOfBirth | New York City, New York, United States ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Century City, Los Angeles, California, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Century City
|
| portrayed | fictionalized version of himself ⓘ |
| residence |
Los Angeles, California, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Los Angeles
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sibling | Ricky Nelson ⓘ |
| spouse |
Janelle Johnson
ⓘ
June Blair ⓘ |
| workedOn | The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: David Nelson Description of subject: David Nelson was an American actor and director best known as the elder son on the classic television series "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet."
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.