David Carson
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David Carson is a British television and film director best known for his work in the Star Trek franchise, including directing the feature film "Star Trek: Generations."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Carson canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10209560 — 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 Carson Context triple: [Star Trek: Generations, director, David Carson]
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A.
Jerry Layne
Jerry Layne is a veteran Major League Baseball umpire who has officiated numerous high-profile games, including serving as crew chief in the World Series.
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B.
Dan Morgenstern
Dan Morgenstern is an American jazz historian, critic, and archivist renowned for his leadership of the Institute of Jazz Studies and his Grammy-winning liner notes.
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C.
Philip Bruns
Philip Bruns was an American character actor best known for his television and film roles in the 1970s and 1980s, including his work on the satirical soap opera "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman."
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D.
Eric Elliott
Eric Elliott is a linguist and scholar known for his work documenting and preserving the Luiseño language of Southern California.
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E.
David Komansky
David Komansky was an American businessman who served as chairman and CEO of Merrill Lynch, overseeing its expansion into a global financial services powerhouse in the 1990s and early 2000s.
- 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 Carson Target entity description: David Carson is a British television and film director best known for his work in the Star Trek franchise, including directing the feature film "Star Trek: Generations."
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A.
Jerry Layne
Jerry Layne is a veteran Major League Baseball umpire who has officiated numerous high-profile games, including serving as crew chief in the World Series.
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B.
Dan Morgenstern
Dan Morgenstern is an American jazz historian, critic, and archivist renowned for his leadership of the Institute of Jazz Studies and his Grammy-winning liner notes.
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C.
Philip Bruns
Philip Bruns was an American character actor best known for his television and film roles in the 1970s and 1980s, including his work on the satirical soap opera "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman."
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D.
Eric Elliott
Eric Elliott is a linguist and scholar known for his work documenting and preserving the Luiseño language of Southern California.
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E.
David Komansky
David Komansky was an American businessman who served as chairman and CEO of Merrill Lynch, overseeing its expansion into a global financial services powerhouse in the 1990s and early 2000s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British person
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film director ⓘ person ⓘ television director ⓘ |
| activeIn |
late 20th century cinema
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late 20th century television ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Star Trek universe (for many of his works)
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linked to:
Star Trek
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| directed |
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (episodes)
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linked to:
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Star Trek: Generations ⓘ Star Trek: The Next Generation (episodes) ⓘ
linked to:
Star Trek: The Next Generation
|
| employer |
Paramount Pictures (on Star Trek projects)
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linked to:
Paramount Pictures
|
| fieldOfWork |
film directing
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television directing ⓘ |
| genre |
science fiction film
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science fiction television ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| knownFor | work in the Star Trek franchise ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | transitioning from Star Trek television to feature film direction ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
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Star Trek: Generations ⓘ Star Trek: The Next Generation ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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television director ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Star Trek franchise
ⓘ
linked to:
Star Trek
|
| workLocation |
United Kingdom
ⓘ
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
How these facts were elicited
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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 Carson Description of subject: David Carson is a British television and film director best known for his work in the Star Trek franchise, including directing the feature film "Star Trek: Generations."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.