David Blocker
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David Blocker is an American film producer known for his work on both independent and studio films, including the Emmy-winning TV movie "Don King: Only in America."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Blocker canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6077411 — 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 Blocker Context triple: [Dirk Blocker, sibling, David Blocker]
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A.
Dirk Blocker
Dirk Blocker is an American actor best known for his role as the lovable, dim-witted Detective Michael Hitchcock on the television sitcom "Brooklyn Nine-Nine."
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B.
Harlon Block
Harlon Block was a United States Marine and one of the flag raisers at Iwo Jima during World War II, later depicted in the book and film "Flags of Our Fathers."
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C.
Dan Blocker
Dan Blocker was an American actor best known for his role as the gentle giant Hoss Cartwright on the classic television Western series "Bonanza."
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D.
Samuel Stritch
Samuel Stritch was an American Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Chicago and was a prominent religious leader in the mid-20th century.
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E.
Jerome Boger
Jerome Boger is a former NFL official best known for serving as the head referee in Super Bowl XLVII.
- 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 Blocker Target entity description: David Blocker is an American film producer known for his work on both independent and studio films, including the Emmy-winning TV movie "Don King: Only in America."
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A.
Dirk Blocker
Dirk Blocker is an American actor best known for his role as the lovable, dim-witted Detective Michael Hitchcock on the television sitcom "Brooklyn Nine-Nine."
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B.
Harlon Block
Harlon Block was a United States Marine and one of the flag raisers at Iwo Jima during World War II, later depicted in the book and film "Flags of Our Fathers."
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C.
Dan Blocker
Dan Blocker was an American actor best known for his role as the gentle giant Hoss Cartwright on the classic television Western series "Bonanza."
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D.
Samuel Stritch
Samuel Stritch was an American Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Chicago and was a prominent religious leader in the mid-20th century.
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E.
Jerome Boger
Jerome Boger is a former NFL official best known for serving as the head referee in Super Bowl XLVII.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (9)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film producer
ⓘ
person ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Primetime Emmy Award
ⓘ
linked to:
Primetime Emmy Awards
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| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| genre |
independent film
ⓘ
studio film ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableWork | Don King: Only in America ⓘ |
| occupation | film producer ⓘ |
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 Blocker Description of subject: David Blocker is an American film producer known for his work on both independent and studio films, including the Emmy-winning TV movie "Don King: Only in America."
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.