David Bartlett
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David Bartlett is a central character in the 1920 silent melodrama "Way Down East," known as the compassionate young man who falls in love with the wronged heroine, Anna Moore.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Bartlett canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2550467 — 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 Bartlett Context triple: [Way Down East, hasCharacter, David Bartlett]
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A.
Sy Bartlett
Sy Bartlett was an American screenwriter and film producer best known for co-writing and producing the World War II drama "Twelve O'Clock High."
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B.
John T. Woolley
John T. Woolley is a political scientist and academic known for co-founding the American Presidency Project, a major online archive of U.S. presidential documents.
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C.
Jack Whitaker
Jack Whitaker was an American sportscaster and television host known for his eloquent commentary on major events, including NFL games, golf tournaments, and horse racing.
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D.
John D. Dunning
John D. Dunning was an American film editor best known for his work on classic Hollywood films, including collaborations with major studios during the mid-20th century.
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E.
Steve Bartlett
Steve Bartlett is an American politician and businessman best known for serving as the mayor of Dallas, Texas, in the early 1990s.
- 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 Bartlett Target entity description: David Bartlett is a central character in the 1920 silent melodrama "Way Down East," known as the compassionate young man who falls in love with the wronged heroine, Anna Moore.
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A.
Sy Bartlett
Sy Bartlett was an American screenwriter and film producer best known for co-writing and producing the World War II drama "Twelve O'Clock High."
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B.
John T. Woolley
John T. Woolley is a political scientist and academic known for co-founding the American Presidency Project, a major online archive of U.S. presidential documents.
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C.
Jack Whitaker
Jack Whitaker was an American sportscaster and television host known for his eloquent commentary on major events, including NFL games, golf tournaments, and horse racing.
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D.
John D. Dunning
John D. Dunning was an American film editor best known for his work on classic Hollywood films, including collaborations with major studios during the mid-20th century.
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E.
Steve Bartlett
Steve Bartlett is an American politician and businessman best known for serving as the mayor of Dallas, Texas, in the early 1990s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
1920 film Way Down East
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Way Down East ⓘ |
| associatedTheme |
forgiveness
ⓘ
redemption ⓘ romantic love ⓘ social morality ⓘ |
| basedOn | stage play Way Down East by Lottie Blair Parker ⓘ |
| characterArc | learns truth about Anna Moore and defends her ⓘ |
| characterTrait | compassionate ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginWork |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| creator |
Way Down East (screenwriters and director D. W. Griffith)
ⓘ
linked to:
Way Down East
|
| familyBackgroundInStory | son of a wealthy farmer ⓘ |
| genre | melodrama ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | silent film with English intertitles ⓘ |
| loveInterest | Anna Moore ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| moralAlignment | sympathetic ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
central character
ⓘ
romantic lead ⓘ |
| relationshipToAnnaMoore | falls in love with her ⓘ |
| settingOfActions | rural New England ⓘ |
| storyFunction | rescues wronged heroine ⓘ |
| workType | silent melodrama ⓘ |
| yearOfWorkRelease | 1920 ⓘ |
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 Bartlett Description of subject: David Bartlett is a central character in the 1920 silent melodrama "Way Down East," known as the compassionate young man who falls in love with the wronged heroine, Anna Moore.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
1920 film Way Down East