David Clennon
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David Clennon is an American actor known for his character roles in film and television, including notable appearances in works like "The Thing," "Thirtysomething," and "Once and Again."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Clennon canonical | 7 |
| Clennon | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6153133 — 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 Clennon Context triple: [Once and Again, starring, David Clennon]
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A.
Dennis Crosby
Dennis Crosby was an American singer and actor best known as one of Bing Crosby’s sons who performed with his brothers as part of the Crosby family entertainment legacy.
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B.
James W. Steese
James W. Steese was an American military officer and engineer who played a significant role in the development of Alaska’s transportation infrastructure in the early 20th century.
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C.
Dean Clark
Dean Clark is a vocalist known for performing songs featured in Disney's 1970 animated film "The Aristocats."
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D.
Floyd Crosby
Floyd Crosby was an Academy Award–winning American cinematographer known for his work on numerous classic films, including influential low-budget horror and science fiction movies.
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E.
Al Cohn
Al Cohn was an American jazz tenor saxophonist, arranger, and composer known for his cool-toned style and influential work in the post–World War II jazz scene.
- 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 Clennon Target entity description: David Clennon is an American actor known for his character roles in film and television, including notable appearances in works like "The Thing," "Thirtysomething," and "Once and Again."
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A.
Dennis Crosby
Dennis Crosby was an American singer and actor best known as one of Bing Crosby’s sons who performed with his brothers as part of the Crosby family entertainment legacy.
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B.
James W. Steese
James W. Steese was an American military officer and engineer who played a significant role in the development of Alaska’s transportation infrastructure in the early 20th century.
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C.
Dean Clark
Dean Clark is a vocalist known for performing songs featured in Disney's 1970 animated film "The Aristocats."
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D.
Floyd Crosby
Floyd Crosby was an Academy Award–winning American cinematographer known for his work on numerous classic films, including influential low-budget horror and science fiction movies.
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E.
Al Cohn
Al Cohn was an American jazz tenor saxophonist, arranger, and composer known for his cool-toned style and influential work in the post–World War II jazz scene.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actor
ⓘ
human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName |
Clennon
ⓘ
linked to:
David Clennon
|
| fieldOfWork |
acting
ⓘ
performing arts ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
ⓘ
science fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | David ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| medium |
film
ⓘ
television ⓘ |
| name | David Clennon ⓘ |
| notableFor |
character roles in film
ⓘ
character roles in television ⓘ |
| notableRole |
Gary Shepherd in Thirtysomething
ⓘ
Palmer in The Thing ⓘ Spencer in Once and Again ⓘ
linked to:
Once and Again
|
| notableWork |
Once and Again
ⓘ
The Thing ⓘ
linked to:
The Thing (1982 film)
Thirtysomething ⓘ
linked to:
thirtysomething
|
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| partOf |
American film industry
ⓘ
linked to:
American cinema
American television industry ⓘ |
| 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 Clennon Description of subject: David Clennon is an American actor known for his character roles in film and television, including notable appearances in works like "The Thing," "Thirtysomething," and "Once and Again."
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: David Clennon