David P. Smith
E453080
David P. Smith is an American animation filmmaker best known for co-directing the animated feature film "Trolls World Tour."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David P. Smith canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4521859 — 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 P. Smith Context triple: [Trolls World Tour, coDirector, David P. Smith]
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A.
Nicholas C. Smith
Nicholas C. Smith is a cinematographer best known for his work on the animated film "Brave."
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B.
Adrian D. Smith
Adrian D. Smith is an American architect renowned for designing some of the world’s tallest and most iconic skyscrapers.
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C.
Mark L. Smith
Mark L. Smith is an American screenwriter best known for his work on intense genre films, including co-writing the Oscar-winning survival drama "The Revenant."
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D.
Alexander D. Smith
Alexander D. Smith is a linguist known for his work on Austronesian languages, particularly for proposing the Greater North Borneo language subgroup.
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E.
Richard W. Smith
Richard W. Smith is a member of the Smith family best known as a son of FedEx founder Frederick W. Smith.
- 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 P. Smith Target entity description: David P. Smith is an American animation filmmaker best known for co-directing the animated feature film "Trolls World Tour."
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A.
Nicholas C. Smith
Nicholas C. Smith is a cinematographer best known for his work on the animated film "Brave."
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B.
Adrian D. Smith
Adrian D. Smith is an American architect renowned for designing some of the world’s tallest and most iconic skyscrapers.
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C.
Mark L. Smith
Mark L. Smith is an American screenwriter best known for his work on intense genre films, including co-writing the Oscar-winning survival drama "The Revenant."
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D.
Alexander D. Smith
Alexander D. Smith is a linguist known for his work on Austronesian languages, particularly for proposing the Greater North Borneo language subgroup.
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E.
Richard W. Smith
Richard W. Smith is a member of the Smith family best known as a son of FedEx founder Frederick W. Smith.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (18)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American filmmaker
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animated feature film ⓘ animation filmmaker ⓘ film director ⓘ person ⓘ |
| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| coDirected |
Trolls World Tour
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linked to:
Trolls
|
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| director | David P. Smith ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
animated films
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film direction ⓘ |
| genre |
animation
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computer-animated musical comedy film ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Trolls World Tour
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linked to:
Trolls
|
| occupation |
animation filmmaker
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film director ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
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 P. Smith Description of subject: David P. Smith is an American animation filmmaker best known for co-directing the animated feature film "Trolls World Tour."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.