David P. Smith
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David P. Smith is a screenwriter best known for his work on the animated film "Shark Tale."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David P. Smith canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10752319 — 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 P. Smith Context triple: [Shark Tale, writer, David P. Smith]
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A.
David P. Smith
David P. Smith is an American animation filmmaker best known for co-directing the animated feature film "Trolls World Tour."
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B.
Nicholas C. Smith
Nicholas C. Smith is a cinematographer best known for his work on the animated film "Brave."
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C.
Richard D. Smith
Richard D. Smith is a theatrical producer known for his work on the hit Broadway musical "The Producers."
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D.
Adrian D. Smith
Adrian D. Smith is an American architect renowned for designing some of the world’s tallest and most iconic skyscrapers.
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E.
Mark L. Smith
Mark L. Smith is an American screenwriter best known for his work on intense genre films, including co-writing the Oscar-winning survival drama "The Revenant."
- 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 P. Smith Target entity description: David P. Smith is a screenwriter best known for his work on the animated film "Shark Tale."
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A.
David P. Smith
David P. Smith is an American animation filmmaker best known for co-directing the animated feature film "Trolls World Tour."
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B.
Nicholas C. Smith
Nicholas C. Smith is a cinematographer best known for his work on the animated film "Brave."
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C.
Richard D. Smith
Richard D. Smith is a theatrical producer known for his work on the hit Broadway musical "The Producers."
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D.
Adrian D. Smith
Adrian D. Smith is an American architect renowned for designing some of the world’s tallest and most iconic skyscrapers.
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E.
Mark L. Smith
Mark L. Smith is an American screenwriter best known for his work on intense genre films, including co-writing the Oscar-winning survival drama "The Revenant."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (8)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
animated film
ⓘ
person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| genre | animated film ⓘ |
| notableWork | Shark Tale ⓘ |
| occupation | screenwriter ⓘ |
| screenwriter | David P. Smith ⓘ |
| workedOn | Shark Tale ⓘ |
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 P. Smith Description of subject: David P. Smith is a screenwriter best known for his work on the animated film "Shark Tale."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
David P. Smith