Howard Silverblatt
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Howard Silverblatt is the birth name of Howard Da Silva, an American actor and director known for his work in film, theater, and television during the mid-20th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Howard Silverblatt canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1029056 — 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: Howard Silverblatt Context triple: [Howard Da Silva, birthName, Howard Silverblatt]
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A.
Jon Rubinstein
Jon Rubinstein is an American computer engineer and executive best known for his key role in developing Apple's iPod and later leading Palm as CEO.
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B.
Jeffrey Silver
Jeffrey Silver is a film producer known for his work on major Hollywood movies, including the science fiction action film "Terminator Salvation."
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C.
Sam Zussman
Sam Zussman is a sports and media executive who serves as a top business leader for the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets organization.
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D.
Avie Tevanian
Avie Tevanian is a software engineer best known as the chief architect of the NeXTSTEP operating system and later a senior executive at Apple, where he played a key role in developing macOS.
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E.
David Zuckerman
David Zuckerman is an American television producer and writer best known for his work on animated comedy series, including helping develop and produce the hit show Family Guy.
- 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: Howard Silverblatt Target entity description: Howard Silverblatt is the birth name of Howard Da Silva, an American actor and director known for his work in film, theater, and television during the mid-20th century.
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A.
Jon Rubinstein
Jon Rubinstein is an American computer engineer and executive best known for his key role in developing Apple's iPod and later leading Palm as CEO.
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B.
Jeffrey Silver
Jeffrey Silver is a film producer known for his work on major Hollywood movies, including the science fiction action film "Terminator Salvation."
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C.
Sam Zussman
Sam Zussman is a sports and media executive who serves as a top business leader for the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets organization.
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D.
Avie Tevanian
Avie Tevanian is a software engineer best known as the chief architect of the NeXTSTEP operating system and later a senior executive at Apple, where he played a key role in developing macOS.
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E.
David Zuckerman
David Zuckerman is an American television producer and writer best known for his work on animated comedy series, including helping develop and produce the hit show Family Guy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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film actor ⓘ film actor ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ theatre director ⓘ theatre director ⓘ |
| activePeriod | mid-20th century ⓘ |
| birthName | Howard Silverblatt ⓘ |
| birthNameOf | Howard Da Silva ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| name | Howard Silverblatt ⓘ |
| notableFor |
work in film
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work in television ⓘ work in theatre ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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film actor ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ theatre director ⓘ |
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: Howard Silverblatt Description of subject: Howard Silverblatt is the birth name of Howard Da Silva, an American actor and director known for his work in film, theater, and television during the mid-20th century.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.