David Dobkin
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David Dobkin is an American film director and producer best known for his work on hit comedies such as "Wedding Crashers."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Dobkin canonical | 12 |
| David Dobkin (director) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3968459 — 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 Dobkin Context triple: [Wedding Crashers, director, David Dobkin]
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A.
Barry Levinson
Barry Levinson is an American filmmaker and screenwriter best known for directing acclaimed films such as "Rain Man," "Diner," and "Good Morning, Vietnam."
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B.
Woody Platt
Woody Platt is an American bluegrass musician best known as a founding member, guitarist, and lead vocalist of the Grammy-winning band Steep Canyon Rangers.
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C.
Sydney Pollack
Sydney Pollack was an American film director, producer, and actor known for acclaimed movies such as "Out of Africa," "Tootsie," and "The Firm."
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D.
Zack Mazursky
Zack Mazursky is a fictional teenager in the crime drama film "Alpha Dog," whose kidnapping and murder are central to the movie’s plot, inspired by the real-life Nicholas Markowitz case.
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E.
Rob Reiner
Rob Reiner is an American actor and acclaimed film director known for his role as Michael "Meathead" Stivic on the sitcom "All in the Family" and for directing classics like "This Is Spinal Tap," "Stand by Me," and "When Harry Met Sally."
- 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 Dobkin Target entity description: David Dobkin is an American film director and producer best known for his work on hit comedies such as "Wedding Crashers."
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A.
Barry Levinson
Barry Levinson is an American filmmaker and screenwriter best known for directing acclaimed films such as "Rain Man," "Diner," and "Good Morning, Vietnam."
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B.
Woody Platt
Woody Platt is an American bluegrass musician best known as a founding member, guitarist, and lead vocalist of the Grammy-winning band Steep Canyon Rangers.
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C.
Sydney Pollack
Sydney Pollack was an American film director, producer, and actor known for acclaimed movies such as "Out of Africa," "Tootsie," and "The Firm."
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D.
Zack Mazursky
Zack Mazursky is a fictional teenager in the crime drama film "Alpha Dog," whose kidnapping and murder are central to the movie’s plot, inspired by the real-life Nicholas Markowitz case.
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E.
Rob Reiner
Rob Reiner is an American actor and acclaimed film director known for his role as Michael "Meathead" Stivic on the sitcom "All in the Family" and for directing classics like "This Is Spinal Tap," "Stand by Me," and "When Harry Met Sally."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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 Dobkin Description of subject: David Dobkin is an American film director and producer best known for his work on hit comedies such as "Wedding Crashers."
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.