David Linde
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David Linde is an American film executive and producer known for leading major independent and specialty film companies, including serving as CEO of Participant Media and co-founding Focus Features.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Linde canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2217618 — 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)
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Target entity: David Linde Context triple: [Focus Features, foundedBy, David Linde]
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A.
Holt McCallany
Holt McCallany is an American actor best known for his tough, authoritative roles in film and television, including a prominent turn as FBI agent Bill Tench in the series "Mindhunter."
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B.
Martin Henderson
Martin Henderson is a New Zealand actor known for his roles in films like "The Ring" and "Everest" and TV series such as "Grey's Anatomy" and "Virgin River."
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C.
Cheyenne Jackson
Cheyenne Jackson is an American actor and singer known for his work on Broadway and in television series such as "30 Rock," "Glee," and "American Horror Story."
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D.
James Badge Dale
James Badge Dale is an American actor known for his intense character roles in film and television, including performances in projects like "The Pacific," "Iron Man 3," and "World War Z."
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E.
Tim Laudner
Tim Laudner is a former Major League Baseball catcher best known for his years with the Minnesota Twins, including their 1987 World Series championship team.
- 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 Linde Target entity description: David Linde is an American film executive and producer known for leading major independent and specialty film companies, including serving as CEO of Participant Media and co-founding Focus Features.
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A.
Holt McCallany
Holt McCallany is an American actor best known for his tough, authoritative roles in film and television, including a prominent turn as FBI agent Bill Tench in the series "Mindhunter."
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B.
Martin Henderson
Martin Henderson is a New Zealand actor known for his roles in films like "The Ring" and "Everest" and TV series such as "Grey's Anatomy" and "Virgin River."
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C.
Cheyenne Jackson
Cheyenne Jackson is an American actor and singer known for his work on Broadway and in television series such as "30 Rock," "Glee," and "American Horror Story."
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D.
James Badge Dale
James Badge Dale is an American actor known for his intense character roles in film and television, including performances in projects like "The Pacific," "Iron Man 3," and "World War Z."
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E.
Tim Laudner
Tim Laudner is a former Major League Baseball catcher best known for his years with the Minnesota Twins, including their 1987 World Series championship team.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American businessperson
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film executive ⓘ film producer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| basedIn | United States of America ⓘ |
| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| coFounded | Focus Features ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer |
Focus Features
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Participant Media ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
independent film
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specialty film ⓘ |
| genreSpecialization |
independent cinema
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specialty cinema ⓘ |
| industry | film industry ⓘ |
| knownAs |
CEO of Participant Media
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co-founder of Focus Features ⓘ |
| name | David Linde ⓘ |
| notableFor |
co-founding Focus Features
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leadership of independent and specialty film companies ⓘ serving as CEO of Participant Media ⓘ |
| occupation |
film executive
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film producer ⓘ studio executive ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Chief Executive Officer of Participant Media ⓘ |
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 Linde Description of subject: David Linde is an American film executive and producer known for leading major independent and specialty film companies, including serving as CEO of Participant Media and co-founding Focus Features.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.