David Stephens
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David Stephens is a central character in the 1994 British dark comedy thriller film "Shallow Grave," known for his increasingly unhinged behavior after he and his flatmates discover a dead tenant's cash-filled suitcase.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Stephens canonical | 2 |
| Stephens | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9137424 — 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 Stephens Context triple: [Shallow Grave, hasCharacter, David Stephens]
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A.
Robert Stephens
Robert Stephens was a distinguished British stage and film actor, known for his work with the Royal National Theatre and roles in classic Shakespearean productions.
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B.
Robert Stephens
Robert Stephens is the anglicized name of Robert Estienne, a renowned 16th-century French printer and classical scholar noted for his critical editions of the Bible and Latin texts.
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C.
Martin Stephens
Martin Stephens is a British former child actor best known for his prominent roles in classic 1960s horror films, including his chilling performance in "Village of the Damned."
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D.
Ronald Stephens
Ronald Stephens is a private individual known primarily as a relative of Wren Alexander Stephens.
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E.
Randall Stephens
Randall Stephens is a fictional alias created by banker Andy Dufresne in the film "The Shawshank Redemption" to conceal and launder warden Samuel Norton's illicit funds.
- 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 Stephens Target entity description: David Stephens is a central character in the 1994 British dark comedy thriller film "Shallow Grave," known for his increasingly unhinged behavior after he and his flatmates discover a dead tenant's cash-filled suitcase.
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A.
Robert Stephens
Robert Stephens is the anglicized name of Robert Estienne, a renowned 16th-century French printer and classical scholar noted for his critical editions of the Bible and Latin texts.
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B.
Robert Stephens
Robert Stephens was a distinguished British stage and film actor, known for his work with the Royal National Theatre and roles in classic Shakespearean productions.
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C.
Martin Stephens
Martin Stephens is a British former child actor best known for his prominent roles in classic 1960s horror films, including his chilling performance in "Village of the Damned."
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D.
Ronald Stephens
Ronald Stephens is a private individual known primarily as a relative of Wren Alexander Stephens.
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E.
Randall Stephens
Randall Stephens is a fictional alias created by banker Andy Dufresne in the film "The Shawshank Redemption" to conceal and launder warden Samuel Norton's illicit funds.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Shallow Grave ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
greed
ⓘ
moral corruption ⓘ psychological breakdown ⓘ |
| characterArc |
becomes increasingly paranoid
ⓘ
exhibits unhinged behavior ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| createdBy | John Hodge ⓘ |
| createdFor | Shallow Grave ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYear | 1994 ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Shallow Grave ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genreOfWork |
dark comedy
ⓘ
thriller film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | central character in Shallow Grave ⓘ |
| nationality | Scottish ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
discovers dead tenant in flat
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finds cash-filled suitcase ⓘ participates in disposing of tenant's body ⓘ |
| occupation | chartered accountant ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Christopher Eccleston ⓘ |
| residence | Edinburgh flat ⓘ |
| sharesFlatWith |
Alex Law
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Juliet Miller ⓘ |
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 Stephens Description of subject: David Stephens is a central character in the 1994 British dark comedy thriller film "Shallow Grave," known for his increasingly unhinged behavior after he and his flatmates discover a dead tenant's cash-filled suitcase.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.