David Madsen
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David Madsen is a screenwriter best known for his work on the psychological thriller film "Copycat."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Madsen canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9789520 — 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 Madsen Context triple: [Copycat, screenwriter, David Madsen]
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A.
Scott E. Denmark
Scott E. Denmark is an American organic chemist renowned for his pioneering work in synthetic methodology and organosilicon chemistry.
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B.
Ben F. Jensen
Ben F. Jensen was a U.S. Congressman who was wounded during the 1954 shooting attack in the House of Representatives chamber.
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C.
David Blangsted
David Blangsted was an American film and television editor known for his work on numerous prominent projects, including the 1990 miniseries "It."
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D.
John Christensen
John Christensen is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple individuals across various professions, including sports, academia, and the arts.
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E.
Douglas Hegdahl
Douglas Hegdahl is a former U.S. Navy sailor and Vietnam War prisoner of war known for his remarkable memory, which he used to secretly record details about fellow POWs while held at the "Hanoi Hilton" and later provide crucial testimony about their treatment.
- 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 Madsen Target entity description: David Madsen is a screenwriter best known for his work on the psychological thriller film "Copycat."
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A.
Scott E. Denmark
Scott E. Denmark is an American organic chemist renowned for his pioneering work in synthetic methodology and organosilicon chemistry.
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B.
Ben F. Jensen
Ben F. Jensen was a U.S. Congressman who was wounded during the 1954 shooting attack in the House of Representatives chamber.
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C.
David Blangsted
David Blangsted was an American film and television editor known for his work on numerous prominent projects, including the 1990 miniseries "It."
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D.
John Christensen
John Christensen is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple individuals across various professions, including sports, academia, and the arts.
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E.
Douglas Hegdahl
Douglas Hegdahl is a former U.S. Navy sailor and Vietnam War prisoner of war known for his remarkable memory, which he used to secretly record details about fellow POWs while held at the "Hanoi Hilton" and later provide crucial testimony about their treatment.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (11)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
ⓘ
person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| genre |
psychological thriller
ⓘ
psychological thriller ⓘ |
| knownFor | screenplay for the film Copycat ⓘ |
| notableWork | Copycat ⓘ |
| occupation | screenwriter ⓘ |
| screenwriter | David Madsen ⓘ |
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 Madsen Description of subject: David Madsen is a screenwriter best known for his work on the psychological thriller film "Copycat."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.