David Newman
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David Newman was an American screenwriter best known for co-writing influential films of the 1960s and 1970s, including the landmark crime drama "Bonnie and Clyde."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Newman canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2172772 — 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 Newman Context triple: [Bonnie and Clyde, screenwriter, David Newman]
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A.
David Newman
David Newman is an American film composer known for scoring numerous Hollywood movies and continuing the Newman family’s influential legacy in film music.
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B.
Mack David
Mack David was an American lyricist and songwriter known for his popular song adaptations and contributions to film and television music.
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C.
Marvin Hamlisch
Marvin Hamlisch was an American composer and conductor renowned for his award-winning work in film, theater, and popular music, including multiple Oscars, Grammys, and a Pulitzer Prize.
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D.
Charles Strouse
Charles Strouse is an American composer best known for his Broadway musical scores, including the music for "Annie," "Bye Bye Birdie," and "Applause."
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E.
Alan Bergman
Alan Bergman is an American lyricist renowned for his long-running songwriting partnership with his wife Marilyn Bergman, together creating numerous acclaimed film and television songs.
- 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 Newman Target entity description: David Newman was an American screenwriter best known for co-writing influential films of the 1960s and 1970s, including the landmark crime drama "Bonnie and Clyde."
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A.
David Newman
David Newman is an American film composer known for scoring numerous Hollywood movies and continuing the Newman family’s influential legacy in film music.
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B.
Mack David
Mack David was an American lyricist and songwriter known for his popular song adaptations and contributions to film and television music.
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C.
Marvin Hamlisch
Marvin Hamlisch was an American composer and conductor renowned for his award-winning work in film, theater, and popular music, including multiple Oscars, Grammys, and a Pulitzer Prize.
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D.
Charles Strouse
Charles Strouse is an American composer best known for his Broadway musical scores, including the music for "Annie," "Bye Bye Birdie," and "Applause."
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E.
Alan Bergman
Alan Bergman is an American lyricist renowned for his long-running songwriting partnership with his wife Marilyn Bergman, together creating numerous acclaimed film and television songs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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 Newman Description of subject: David Newman was an American screenwriter best known for co-writing influential films of the 1960s and 1970s, including the landmark crime drama "Bonnie and Clyde."
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.