David Schwimmer
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David Schwimmer is an American actor and director best known for playing Ross Geller on the hit television sitcom "Friends."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Schwimmer canonical | 22 |
| David Schwimmer (banker) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3084346 — 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 Schwimmer Context triple: [Friends, portrayedBy, David Schwimmer]
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A.
Josh Hartnett
Josh Hartnett is an American actor known for his breakout roles in late-1990s and early-2000s films such as "The Faculty," "Pearl Harbor," and "Black Hawk Down," as well as later work in projects like the series "Penny Dreadful."
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B.
Matt Bomer
Matt Bomer is an American actor known for his roles in the TV series "White Collar" and films such as "Magic Mike" and "The Normal Heart."
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C.
Robert Sean Leonard
Robert Sean Leonard is an American actor best known for his roles in the television series "House" and films such as "Dead Poets Society."
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D.
Bill Hartnett
Bill Hartnett is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Hartnett, though specific widely known achievements or roles are not clearly documented.
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E.
James Marsden
James Marsden is an American actor known for his roles in films like the X-Men series, Enchanted, and Hairspray, as well as prominent television work.
- 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 Schwimmer Target entity description: David Schwimmer is an American actor and director best known for playing Ross Geller on the hit television sitcom "Friends."
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A.
Josh Hartnett
Josh Hartnett is an American actor known for his breakout roles in late-1990s and early-2000s films such as "The Faculty," "Pearl Harbor," and "Black Hawk Down," as well as later work in projects like the series "Penny Dreadful."
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B.
Matt Bomer
Matt Bomer is an American actor known for his roles in the TV series "White Collar" and films such as "Magic Mike" and "The Normal Heart."
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C.
Robert Sean Leonard
Robert Sean Leonard is an American actor best known for his roles in the television series "House" and films such as "Dead Poets Society."
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D.
Bill Hartnett
Bill Hartnett is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Hartnett, though specific widely known achievements or roles are not clearly documented.
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E.
James Marsden
James Marsden is an American actor known for his roles in films like the X-Men series, Enchanted, and Hairspray, as well as prominent television work.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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 Schwimmer Description of subject: David Schwimmer is an American actor and director best known for playing Ross Geller on the hit television sitcom "Friends."
Referenced by (23)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: David Schwimmer