David Arata
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David Arata is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the acclaimed dystopian film "Children of Men."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Arata canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2644760 — 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 Arata Context triple: [Children of Men, screenwriter, David Arata]
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A.
Michael Athans
Michael Athans was a prominent control theorist and MIT professor known for his pioneering contributions to modern control theory and systems engineering.
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B.
Paul Devorski
Paul Devorski is a retired Canadian National Hockey League referee known for officiating numerous high-profile games over his long career.
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C.
Anthony Katagas
Anthony Katagas is an American film producer known for his work on acclaimed independent and studio films, including collaborations with prominent directors such as James Gray.
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D.
David Julyan
David Julyan is a British film composer best known for his atmospheric scores for Christopher Nolan’s early films, including Memento, Insomnia, and The Prestige.
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E.
Joshua Haldeman
Joshua Haldeman was a Canadian-born chiropractor, adventurer, and political activist known for his trans-African flights and as the grandfather of entrepreneur Elon Musk.
- 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 Arata Target entity description: David Arata is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the acclaimed dystopian film "Children of Men."
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A.
Michael Athans
Michael Athans was a prominent control theorist and MIT professor known for his pioneering contributions to modern control theory and systems engineering.
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B.
Paul Devorski
Paul Devorski is a retired Canadian National Hockey League referee known for officiating numerous high-profile games over his long career.
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C.
Anthony Katagas
Anthony Katagas is an American film producer known for his work on acclaimed independent and studio films, including collaborations with prominent directors such as James Gray.
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D.
David Julyan
David Julyan is a British film composer best known for his atmospheric scores for Christopher Nolan’s early films, including Memento, Insomnia, and The Prestige.
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E.
Joshua Haldeman
Joshua Haldeman was a Canadian-born chiropractor, adventurer, and political activist known for his trans-African flights and as the grandfather of entrepreneur Elon Musk.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film screenwriter
ⓘ
person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| activeIn |
American cinema
ⓘ
film industry ⓘ |
| basedOnWork | novel Children of Men by P. D. James ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
Alfonso Cuarón
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Hawk Ostby ⓘ Mark Fergus ⓘ Timothy J. Sexton ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| coWriterOf | Children of Men ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of California, Santa Cruz ⓘ |
| genre |
dystopian film
ⓘ
science fiction film ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| knownFor | co-writing the film Children of Men ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| nominatedFor |
Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
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BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay ⓘ Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay ⓘ |
| notableGenre |
dystopian fiction
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science fiction ⓘ |
| notableWork | Children of Men ⓘ |
| occupation |
film producer
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screenwriter ⓘ television writer ⓘ |
| screenwriterOf | Children of Men ⓘ |
| workLocation | Los Angeles ⓘ |
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 Arata Description of subject: David Arata is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the acclaimed dystopian film "Children of Men."
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.