David Shaw
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David Shaw was an American screenwriter known for his work in mid-20th-century film and television.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Shaw canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2546963 — 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 Shaw Context triple: [Harlow (1965 film), screenwriter, David Shaw]
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A.
David Shaw
David Shaw is an American football coach best known for his successful tenure as head coach of Stanford University's football program in the 2010s.
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B.
John Bloom
John Bloom is a film editor best known for his Academy Award-winning work on movies such as "Gandhi" and his editing contributions to notable films including "Charlie Wilson's War."
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C.
David Sancious
David Sancious is an American keyboardist and guitarist best known as an original member of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band and for his work as a versatile session and solo artist.
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D.
Sid Phillips
Sid Phillips is the sadistic, toy-destroying neighborhood bully who serves as the primary human antagonist in Pixar's original Toy Story film.
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E.
David Holmes
David Holmes is a name shared by several notable individuals, including a British diplomat and a stuntman best known as Daniel Radcliffe’s double in the Harry Potter film series.
- 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 Shaw Target entity description: David Shaw was an American screenwriter known for his work in mid-20th-century film and television.
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A.
David Shaw
David Shaw is an American football coach best known for his successful tenure as head coach of Stanford University's football program in the 2010s.
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B.
John Bloom
John Bloom is a film editor best known for his Academy Award-winning work on movies such as "Gandhi" and his editing contributions to notable films including "Charlie Wilson's War."
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C.
David Sancious
David Sancious is an American keyboardist and guitarist best known as an original member of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band and for his work as a versatile session and solo artist.
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D.
Sid Phillips
Sid Phillips is the sadistic, toy-destroying neighborhood bully who serves as the primary human antagonist in Pixar's original Toy Story film.
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E.
David Holmes
David Holmes is a name shared by several notable individuals, including a British diplomat and a stuntman best known as Daniel Radcliffe’s double in the Harry Potter film series.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (9)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American
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person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ television writer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| notableFor |
work in mid-20th-century film
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work in mid-20th-century television ⓘ |
| occupation |
screenwriter
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television writer ⓘ |
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 Shaw Description of subject: David Shaw was an American screenwriter known for his work in mid-20th-century film and television.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.