David S. Ward
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David S. Ward is an American screenwriter and director best known for writing the Oscar-winning film "The Sting" and other popular movies.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David S. Ward canonical | 37 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1545387 — 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 S. Ward Context triple: [Sleepless in Seattle, writer, David S. Ward]
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A.
Michael V. Drake
Michael V. Drake is an American academic leader and physician who has served as president of both The Ohio State University and the University of California system.
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B.
John Stephens
John Stephens is an author best known for writing the children's fantasy novel "The Emerald Atlas" and its sequels in the Books of Beginning series.
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C.
Jason Clark
Jason Clark is a television and film producer best known for his work on science-themed documentary series such as "Cosmos: Possible Worlds."
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D.
David N. Payne
David N. Payne is a British physicist renowned for pioneering work in optical fiber and photonics, including key contributions to the development of erbium-doped fiber amplifiers used in modern telecommunications.
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E.
Steven Price
Steven Price is an Academy Award–winning British film composer known for his evocative scores for projects such as Gravity, Our Planet, and Suicide Squad.
- 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 S. Ward Target entity description: David S. Ward is an American screenwriter and director best known for writing the Oscar-winning film "The Sting" and other popular movies.
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A.
Michael V. Drake
Michael V. Drake is an American academic leader and physician who has served as president of both The Ohio State University and the University of California system.
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B.
John Stephens
John Stephens is an author best known for writing the children's fantasy novel "The Emerald Atlas" and its sequels in the Books of Beginning series.
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C.
Jason Clark
Jason Clark is a television and film producer best known for his work on science-themed documentary series such as "Cosmos: Possible Worlds."
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D.
David N. Payne
David N. Payne is a British physicist renowned for pioneering work in optical fiber and photonics, including key contributions to the development of erbium-doped fiber amplifiers used in modern telecommunications.
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E.
Steven Price
Steven Price is an Academy Award–winning British film composer known for his evocative scores for projects such as Gravity, Our Planet, and Suicide Squad.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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 S. Ward Description of subject: David S. Ward is an American screenwriter and director best known for writing the Oscar-winning film "The Sting" and other popular movies.
Referenced by (37)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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King Ralph (1991 film)
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Doyle Lonnegan in The Sting
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Johnny Hooker in The Sting
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The Program (1993 film)
subject linked to:
The Program (1993 film)