Michael Starrbury
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Michael Starrbury is an American screenwriter and producer best known for his work on socially conscious film and television projects, including co-writing Ava DuVernay’s acclaimed miniseries "When They See Us."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Michael Starrbury canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8430918 — 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)
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Target entity: Michael Starrbury Context triple: [When They See Us, writer, Michael Starrbury]
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A.
Mike Starr
Mike Starr was an American bassist best known as the original bass player for the Seattle grunge band Alice in Chains.
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B.
Mike Starr
Mike Starr is an American character actor known for his imposing presence and frequent roles as tough guys or mobsters in films and television.
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C.
Aaron Stockard
Aaron Stockard is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the acclaimed crime drama film "Gone Baby Gone" with Ben Affleck.
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D.
Ryan Stiles
Ryan Stiles is a Canadian-American actor and comedian best known for his improvisational work on "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" and his long-running role on "The Drew Carey Show."
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E.
Jason Staebler
Jason Staebler is a fast-talking, small-time hustler whose grandiose dreams and schemes drive much of the drama in the 1972 film "The King of Marvin Gardens."
- 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: Michael Starrbury Target entity description: Michael Starrbury is an American screenwriter and producer best known for his work on socially conscious film and television projects, including co-writing Ava DuVernay’s acclaimed miniseries "When They See Us."
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A.
Mike Starr
Mike Starr was an American bassist best known as the original bass player for the Seattle grunge band Alice in Chains.
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B.
Mike Starr
Mike Starr is an American character actor known for his imposing presence and frequent roles as tough guys or mobsters in films and television.
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C.
Aaron Stockard
Aaron Stockard is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the acclaimed crime drama film "Gone Baby Gone" with Ben Affleck.
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D.
Ryan Stiles
Ryan Stiles is a Canadian-American actor and comedian best known for his improvisational work on "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" and his long-running role on "The Drew Carey Show."
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E.
Jason Staebler
Jason Staebler is a fast-talking, small-time hustler whose grandiose dreams and schemes drive much of the drama in the 1972 film "The King of Marvin Gardens."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American
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film producer ⓘ person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ television miniseries ⓘ television producer ⓘ |
| basedIn |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| coWrote | When They See Us ⓘ |
| creator | Ava DuVernay ⓘ |
| genre |
biographical drama
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drama ⓘ legal drama ⓘ socially conscious drama ⓘ |
| industry |
film industry
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television industry ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
socially conscious film projects
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socially conscious television projects ⓘ |
| notableWork | When They See Us ⓘ |
| occupation |
producer
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screenwriter ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| workedWith | Ava DuVernay ⓘ |
| writer | Michael Starrbury ⓘ |
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: Michael Starrbury Description of subject: Michael Starrbury is an American screenwriter and producer best known for his work on socially conscious film and television projects, including co-writing Ava DuVernay’s acclaimed miniseries "When They See Us."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Michael Starrbury