David Thornton
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David Thornton is an American character actor known for his roles in film and television, and for being married to singer Cyndi Lauper.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Thornton canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5252972 — 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 Thornton Context triple: [Cyndi Lauper, spouse, David Thornton]
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A.
Frank Thornton
Frank Thornton was an English actor and comedian best known for his role as the pompous floorwalker Captain Peacock in the long-running British sitcom "Are You Being Served?".
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B.
Andrew Whitham
Andrew Whitham is a distinguished geoscientist recognized for his significant contributions to the field, as evidenced by his receipt of the William Smith Medal.
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C.
Tony Thorpe
Tony Thorpe is an English musician best known as a founding member of the experimental electronic group The KLF and for his work in the UK electronic and dance music scene.
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D.
Roderick Thorp
Roderick Thorp was an American novelist best known for writing the crime thriller "Nothing Lasts Forever," which was adapted into the blockbuster action film "Die Hard."
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E.
Paul Thompson
Paul Thompson is a musician best known as a member of the alternative rock band Concrete Blonde.
- 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 Thornton Target entity description: David Thornton is an American character actor known for his roles in film and television, and for being married to singer Cyndi Lauper.
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A.
Frank Thornton
Frank Thornton was an English actor and comedian best known for his role as the pompous floorwalker Captain Peacock in the long-running British sitcom "Are You Being Served?".
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B.
Andrew Whitham
Andrew Whitham is a distinguished geoscientist recognized for his significant contributions to the field, as evidenced by his receipt of the William Smith Medal.
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C.
Tony Thorpe
Tony Thorpe is an English musician best known as a founding member of the experimental electronic group The KLF and for his work in the UK electronic and dance music scene.
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D.
Roderick Thorp
Roderick Thorp was an American novelist best known for writing the crime thriller "Nothing Lasts Forever," which was adapted into the blockbuster action film "Die Hard."
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E.
Paul Thompson
Paul Thompson is a musician best known as a member of the alternative rock band Concrete Blonde.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
character actor
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| citizenship | American ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film
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performing arts ⓘ television ⓘ |
| hasMediaType |
film
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television ⓘ |
| hasRelative | Cyndi Lauper ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic | American character actor ⓘ |
| notableFor |
character roles in film
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character roles in television ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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film actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Cyndi Lauper ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation | singer ⓘ |
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 Thornton Description of subject: David Thornton is an American character actor known for his roles in film and television, and for being married to singer Cyndi Lauper.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.