David Bell
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David Bell is the protagonist of the 1987 American drama film "Americana," around whom the story’s emotional and narrative arc revolves.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Bell canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3281781 — 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 Bell Context triple: [Americana, hasMainCharacter, David Bell]
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A.
Tony Hunter
Tony Hunter is the aging song-and-dance man protagonist of the classic 1953 MGM musical film "The Band Wagon," portrayed by Fred Astaire as he attempts to revive his fading career on Broadway.
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B.
Lance Leipold
Lance Leipold is an American college football coach known for successfully rebuilding programs, most notably turning around the University of Kansas Jayhawks football team after winning multiple Division III national titles at Wisconsin–Whitewater.
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C.
Ben Scrivens
Ben Scrivens is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender who played in the NHL for teams including the Toronto Maple Leafs, Edmonton Oilers, and Montreal Canadiens.
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D.
Mark Bellhorn
Mark Bellhorn is a former Major League Baseball infielder best known for his clutch postseason hitting with the 2004 Boston Red Sox during their historic World Series championship run.
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E.
Rob Dibble
Rob Dibble is a former Major League Baseball relief pitcher best known as a dominant member of the Cincinnati Reds' late-1980s and early-1990s bullpen, particularly the "Nasty Boys" trio that helped secure the 1990 World Series title.
- 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 Bell Target entity description: David Bell is the protagonist of the 1987 American drama film "Americana," around whom the story’s emotional and narrative arc revolves.
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A.
Tony Hunter
Tony Hunter is the aging song-and-dance man protagonist of the classic 1953 MGM musical film "The Band Wagon," portrayed by Fred Astaire as he attempts to revive his fading career on Broadway.
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B.
Lance Leipold
Lance Leipold is an American college football coach known for successfully rebuilding programs, most notably turning around the University of Kansas Jayhawks football team after winning multiple Division III national titles at Wisconsin–Whitewater.
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C.
Ben Scrivens
Ben Scrivens is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender who played in the NHL for teams including the Toronto Maple Leafs, Edmonton Oilers, and Montreal Canadiens.
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D.
Mark Bellhorn
Mark Bellhorn is a former Major League Baseball infielder best known for his clutch postseason hitting with the 2004 Boston Red Sox during their historic World Series championship run.
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E.
Rob Dibble
Rob Dibble is a former Major League Baseball relief pitcher best known as a dominant member of the Cincinnati Reds' late-1980s and early-1990s bullpen, particularly the "Nasty Boys" trio that helped secure the 1990 World Series title.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (16)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Americana ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| genreOfWork | drama film ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
central character
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driving force of plot ⓘ emotional focus ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| protagonistOf | Americana ⓘ |
| storyRole |
character around whom the story’s emotional arc revolves
ⓘ
character around whom the story’s narrative arc revolves ⓘ |
| workCountry | American film ⓘ |
| workTitle | Americana ⓘ |
| yearOfWorkRelease | 1987 ⓘ |
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 Bell Description of subject: David Bell is the protagonist of the 1987 American drama film "Americana," around whom the story’s emotional and narrative arc revolves.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.