David Scearce
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David Scearce is a Canadian screenwriter best known for adapting Christopher Isherwood’s novel into the acclaimed film "A Single Man."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Scearce canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T499163 — 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 Scearce Context triple: [A Single Man, screenwriter, David Scearce]
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A.
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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B.
John Pehle
John Pehle was an American Treasury Department official who became the first executive director of the War Refugee Board and played a key role in U.S. efforts to rescue Jews and other persecuted people during the Holocaust.
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C.
Michael Rogers
Michael Rogers is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple individuals across fields such as politics, sports, and the arts, rather than referring to one singular widely recognized figure.
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D.
David M. Satterfield
David M. Satterfield is an American diplomat and former U.S. ambassador who has held several senior foreign policy roles, including directing Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy.
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E.
Lee Garmes
Lee Garmes was an American cinematographer renowned for his innovative lighting and camera techniques in early Hollywood cinema, including his Academy Award-winning work on "Shanghai Express."
- 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 Scearce Target entity description: David Scearce is a Canadian screenwriter best known for adapting Christopher Isherwood’s novel into the acclaimed film "A Single Man."
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A.
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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B.
John Pehle
John Pehle was an American Treasury Department official who became the first executive director of the War Refugee Board and played a key role in U.S. efforts to rescue Jews and other persecuted people during the Holocaust.
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C.
Michael Rogers
Michael Rogers is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple individuals across fields such as politics, sports, and the arts, rather than referring to one singular widely recognized figure.
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D.
David M. Satterfield
David M. Satterfield is an American diplomat and former U.S. ambassador who has held several senior foreign policy roles, including directing Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy.
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E.
Lee Garmes
Lee Garmes was an American cinematographer renowned for his innovative lighting and camera techniques in early Hollywood cinema, including his Academy Award-winning work on "Shanghai Express."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Canadian screenwriter
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film ⓘ novel ⓘ person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| adaptedFrom |
A Single Man (novel)
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linked to:
A Single Man
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| adaptedWorkOfAuthor | Christopher Isherwood ⓘ |
| author | Christopher Isherwood ⓘ |
| basedOn |
A Single Man (novel)
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linked to:
A Single Man
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| countryOfCitizenship | Canada ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| genre | drama film ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Single Man (film)
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linked to:
A Single Man
A Single Man (novel) ⓘ
linked to:
A Single Man
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| occupation | screenwriter ⓘ |
| screenwriter | David Scearce ⓘ |
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 Scearce Description of subject: David Scearce is a Canadian screenwriter best known for adapting Christopher Isherwood’s novel into the acclaimed film "A Single Man."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
David Scearce