David Anspaugh
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David Anspaugh is an American film and television director best known for directing the sports dramas "Hoosiers" and "Rudy."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Anspaugh canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4386951 — 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 Anspaugh Context triple: [Roma Downey, spouse, David Anspaugh]
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A.
Leland Robinson
Leland Robinson is the son of influential music producer and Sugar Hill Records co-founder Sylvia Robinson.
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B.
Allan D. Pierce
Allan D. Pierce is an American acoustical physicist renowned for his foundational contributions to theoretical acoustics and authorship of the influential textbook "Acoustics: An Introduction to Its Physical Principles and Applications."
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C.
Phil Johnston
Phil Johnston is an American screenwriter and filmmaker known for co-writing animated hits such as Disney's "Zootopia" and "Wreck-It Ralph."
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D.
Glenn Shadix
Glenn Shadix was an American character actor best known for his eccentric roles in films like "Beetlejuice" and various voice performances in animated works.
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E.
Philip Dunne
Philip Dunne was an American screenwriter, director, and producer best known for his work on classic Hollywood films from the 1930s through the 1960s.
- 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 Anspaugh Target entity description: David Anspaugh is an American film and television director best known for directing the sports dramas "Hoosiers" and "Rudy."
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A.
Leland Robinson
Leland Robinson is the son of influential music producer and Sugar Hill Records co-founder Sylvia Robinson.
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B.
Allan D. Pierce
Allan D. Pierce is an American acoustical physicist renowned for his foundational contributions to theoretical acoustics and authorship of the influential textbook "Acoustics: An Introduction to Its Physical Principles and Applications."
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C.
Phil Johnston
Phil Johnston is an American screenwriter and filmmaker known for co-writing animated hits such as Disney's "Zootopia" and "Wreck-It Ralph."
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D.
Glenn Shadix
Glenn Shadix was an American character actor best known for his eccentric roles in films like "Beetlejuice" and various voice performances in animated works.
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E.
Philip Dunne
Philip Dunne was an American screenwriter, director, and producer best known for his work on classic Hollywood films from the 1930s through the 1960s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American
ⓘ
film director ⓘ human ⓘ television director ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| directed |
Hoosiers
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Rudy ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film
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television ⓘ |
| genreSpecialization | sports drama ⓘ |
| knownFor |
directing Hoosiers
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directing Rudy ⓘ directing sports dramas ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| name | David Anspaugh ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Hoosiers
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Rudy ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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television director ⓘ |
| workLocation |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
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 Anspaugh Description of subject: David Anspaugh is an American film and television director best known for directing the sports dramas "Hoosiers" and "Rudy."
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.