David Tree
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David Tree was a British actor active in the mid-20th century, known for his roles in classic films and stage productions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Tree canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10493365 — 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 Tree Context triple: [Pygmalion (1938 film), starring, David Tree]
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A.
Donald McHenry
Donald McHenry is an American diplomat best known for serving as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations during the Carter administration.
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B.
Don Dodson
Don Dodson is an individual whose name is associated with or referenced by the term "Dodson."
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C.
Bill Steele
Bill Steele is a Canadian municipal politician who serves as the mayor of Port Colborne, Ontario.
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D.
Frank Hague
Frank Hague was a powerful and controversial early 20th-century mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey, known for his political machine and involvement in landmark civil liberties cases.
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E.
Roger Davis
Roger Davis is a central character in the musical "Rent," a struggling filmmaker and former rock musician grappling with love, loss, and life in New York City's East Village during the AIDS crisis.
- 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 Tree Target entity description: David Tree was a British actor active in the mid-20th century, known for his roles in classic films and stage productions.
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A.
Donald McHenry
Donald McHenry is an American diplomat best known for serving as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations during the Carter administration.
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B.
Don Dodson
Don Dodson is an individual whose name is associated with or referenced by the term "Dodson."
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C.
Bill Steele
Bill Steele is a Canadian municipal politician who serves as the mayor of Port Colborne, Ontario.
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D.
Frank Hague
Frank Hague was a powerful and controversial early 20th-century mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey, known for his political machine and involvement in landmark civil liberties cases.
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E.
Roger Davis
Roger Davis is a central character in the musical "Rent," a struggling filmmaker and former rock musician grappling with love, loss, and life in New York City's East Village during the AIDS crisis.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British actor
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human ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | mid-20th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United Kingdom
ⓘ
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland ⓘ
linked to:
United Kingdom
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| era | 20th century ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | British ⓘ |
| familyName | Tree ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
cinema
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performing arts ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| genre | drama ⓘ |
| givenName | David ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | David Tree ⓘ |
| notability |
known for roles in classic films
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known for roles in stage productions ⓘ |
| notableWork |
classic films
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stage productions ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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film actor ⓘ stage actor ⓘ |
| residence | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation | United Kingdom ⓘ |
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 Tree Description of subject: David Tree was a British actor active in the mid-20th century, known for his roles in classic films and stage productions.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.