David Mann
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David Mann is the harried, everyman motorist relentlessly terrorized by a mysterious truck driver in Steven Spielberg’s thriller film "Duel."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Mann canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8361529 — 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 Mann Context triple: [Duel, mainCharacter, David Mann]
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A.
David Mann
David Mann is an American actor and comedian best known for his recurring roles in Tyler Perry’s stage plays and films, particularly as the character Mr. Brown.
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B.
Robert Mann
Robert Mann was a 19th-century American man best known as the son of influential education reformer Horace Mann.
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C.
Don Hahn
Don Hahn is an American film producer best known for overseeing several of Disney’s most acclaimed animated features, including Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King.
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D.
Hank Corwin
Hank Corwin is an acclaimed American film editor known for his impressionistic, nonlinear cutting style on films such as The Tree of Life, The Big Short, and Vice.
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E.
Charles Lachman
Charles Lachman was a businessman and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the American cosmetics company Revlon.
- 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 Mann Target entity description: David Mann is the harried, everyman motorist relentlessly terrorized by a mysterious truck driver in Steven Spielberg’s thriller film "Duel."
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A.
David Mann
David Mann is an American actor and comedian best known for his recurring roles in Tyler Perry’s stage plays and films, particularly as the character Mr. Brown.
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B.
Robert Mann
Robert Mann was a 19th-century American man best known as the son of influential education reformer Horace Mann.
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C.
Don Hahn
Don Hahn is an American film producer best known for overseeing several of Disney’s most acclaimed animated features, including Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King.
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D.
Hank Corwin
Hank Corwin is an acclaimed American film editor known for his impressionistic, nonlinear cutting style on films such as The Tree of Life, The Big Short, and Vice.
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E.
Charles Lachman
Charles Lachman was a businessman and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the American cosmetics company Revlon.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ protagonist ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Duel ⓘ |
| appearsInFilm | Duel ⓘ |
| associatedWithDirector | Steven Spielberg ⓘ |
| associatedWithNetwork | ABC ⓘ |
| basedOnAuthor | Richard Matheson ⓘ |
| basedOnWork |
Duel (short story)
ⓘ
linked to:
Duel (teleplay)
|
| characterRole |
everyman
ⓘ
protagonist pursued by a truck ⓘ victim ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
anxious
ⓘ
persistent ⓘ resourceful under pressure ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| creator | Richard Matheson ⓘ |
| familyName | Mann ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
Duel (1971 television film)
ⓘ
linked to:
Duel (teleplay)
|
| firstAppearanceYear | 1971 ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genreOfWork |
road movie
ⓘ
thriller ⓘ |
| givenName | David ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| laterReleasedAs | theatrical feature version of Duel ⓘ |
| medium | television film ⓘ |
| name | David Mann ⓘ |
| narrativeTheme | ordinary man facing anonymous menace ⓘ |
| notableFor | being relentlessly chased by a mysterious truck driver ⓘ |
| notableScene | final confrontation at the cliff with the truck ⓘ |
| occupation |
motorist
ⓘ
salesman ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Dennis Weaver ⓘ |
| settingOfNotableEvents | deserted highways in rural California ⓘ |
| vehicleDriven |
Plymouth Valiant
ⓘ
linked to:
Plymouth Valiant (in some markets)
|
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 Mann Description of subject: David Mann is the harried, everyman motorist relentlessly terrorized by a mysterious truck driver in Steven Spielberg’s thriller film "Duel."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.