David Zellner
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David Zellner is an American independent filmmaker and actor known for his offbeat, character-driven films such as "Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter" and "Damsel."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Zellner canonical | 23 |
| Nathan Zellner | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2929249 — 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 Zellner Context triple: [Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter, director, David Zellner]
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A.
Johnny Gandelsman
Johnny Gandelsman is a Grammy-winning violinist and producer known for his work with ensembles like Brooklyn Rider and the Silk Road Ensemble, as well as for his innovative solo projects.
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B.
Chris Klein
Chris Klein is a former American professional soccer player who later became a sports executive, notably serving as president of Major League Soccer’s LA Galaxy.
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C.
Dan Jewett
Dan Jewett is an American science teacher known for his brief marriage to billionaire philanthropist and novelist MacKenzie Scott.
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D.
David Denman
David Denman is an American actor best known for his role as Roy Anderson on the U.S. version of "The Office" and for supporting performances in films and television series across comedy and drama.
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E.
Joel Stransky
Joel Stransky is a former South African rugby union fly-half best known for kicking the winning drop goal in the 1995 Rugby World Cup final.
- 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 Zellner Target entity description: David Zellner is an American independent filmmaker and actor known for his offbeat, character-driven films such as "Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter" and "Damsel."
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A.
Johnny Gandelsman
Johnny Gandelsman is a Grammy-winning violinist and producer known for his work with ensembles like Brooklyn Rider and the Silk Road Ensemble, as well as for his innovative solo projects.
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B.
Chris Klein
Chris Klein is a former American professional soccer player who later became a sports executive, notably serving as president of Major League Soccer’s LA Galaxy.
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C.
Dan Jewett
Dan Jewett is an American science teacher known for his brief marriage to billionaire philanthropist and novelist MacKenzie Scott.
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D.
David Denman
David Denman is an American actor best known for his role as Roy Anderson on the U.S. version of "The Office" and for supporting performances in films and television series across comedy and drama.
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E.
Joel Stransky
Joel Stransky is a former South African rugby union fly-half best known for kicking the winning drop goal in the 1995 Rugby World Cup final.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
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film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ independent filmmaker ⓘ person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Damsel
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Goliath ⓘ Kid-Thing ⓘ Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter ⓘ |
| collaboratesWith | Nathan Zellner ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| director | David Zellner ⓘ |
| directorOf |
Damsel
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Goliath ⓘ Kid-Thing ⓘ Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy-drama film
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independent film ⓘ offbeat cinema ⓘ |
| knownFor | offbeat character-driven films ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Zellner Brothers ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Damsel
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Goliath ⓘ Kid-Thing ⓘ Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| screenwriter | David Zellner ⓘ |
| sibling | Nathan Zellner ⓘ |
| writerOf |
Damsel
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Goliath ⓘ Kid-Thing ⓘ Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter ⓘ |
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 Zellner Description of subject: David Zellner is an American independent filmmaker and actor known for his offbeat, character-driven films such as "Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter" and "Damsel."
Referenced by (25)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: David Zellner
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David Zellner
subject linked to:
David Zellner
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Nathan Zellner
subject linked to:
Nathan Zellner
subject linked to:
Nathan Zellner
subject linked to:
Nathan Zellner
subject linked to:
Zellner Brothers
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Goliath