David Arnott
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David Arnott is an American screenwriter and actor best known for co-writing the action-comedy film "Last Action Hero."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Arnott canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9914080 — 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 Arnott Context triple: [Last Action Hero, screenwriter, David Arnott]
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A.
David Farquharson
David Farquharson was an architect known for designing South Hall.
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B.
Jonathan Aitken
Jonathan Aitken is a British former Conservative politician and cabinet minister who became widely known for his high-profile perjury conviction in the late 1990s.
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C.
Richard Hiscott
Richard Hiscott is an editor known for his work on the television series "Willow."
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D.
Andrew Sturgeon
Andrew Sturgeon is a relatively obscure individual whose primary distinguishing feature is sharing the surname Sturgeon, with no widely documented public achievements or roles.
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E.
David Sinnott
David Sinnott was a military leader associated with the defense of Wexford during the Irish Confederate Wars.
- 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 Arnott Target entity description: David Arnott is an American screenwriter and actor best known for co-writing the action-comedy film "Last Action Hero."
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A.
David Farquharson
David Farquharson was an architect known for designing South Hall.
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B.
Jonathan Aitken
Jonathan Aitken is a British former Conservative politician and cabinet minister who became widely known for his high-profile perjury conviction in the late 1990s.
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C.
Richard Hiscott
Richard Hiscott is an editor known for his work on the television series "Willow."
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D.
Andrew Sturgeon
Andrew Sturgeon is a relatively obscure individual whose primary distinguishing feature is sharing the surname Sturgeon, with no widely documented public achievements or roles.
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E.
David Sinnott
David Sinnott was a military leader associated with the defense of Wexford during the Irish Confederate Wars.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American
ⓘ
film ⓘ person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| coWrote | Last Action Hero ⓘ |
| genre |
action film
ⓘ
comedy film ⓘ |
| notableWork | Last Action Hero ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
screenwriter ⓘ |
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 Arnott Description of subject: David Arnott is an American screenwriter and actor best known for co-writing the action-comedy film "Last Action Hero."
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.