David B. Allen
E929289
David B. Allen is a cinematographer best known for his work on the animated film "Shrek 2."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David B. Allen canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11499038 — 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 B. Allen Context triple: [Shrek 2, cinematographyBy, David B. Allen]
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A.
Dave Bickler
Dave Bickler is an American rock singer best known as the original lead vocalist of the band Survivor and for singing their hit song "Eye of the Tiger."
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B.
John Cagan
John Cagan is the namesake of Cagan Stadium, likely a significant benefactor or figure associated with the institution that owns the venue.
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C.
Warren DeMartini
Warren DeMartini is an American guitarist best known as the lead guitarist for the glam metal band Ratt, where his melodic, technically skilled playing helped define the group’s signature sound in the 1980s.
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D.
Gordon Bell
Gordon Bell is an American computer engineer and pioneer in computer architecture, best known for his influential work at Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) and contributions to minicomputer and bus design.
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E.
Douglas Davenport
Douglas Davenport is a brilliant but morally ambiguous scientist and the primary antagonist-turned-ally in the Disney XD series "Lab Rats."
- 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 B. Allen Target entity description: David B. Allen is a cinematographer best known for his work on the animated film "Shrek 2."
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A.
Dave Bickler
Dave Bickler is an American rock singer best known as the original lead vocalist of the band Survivor and for singing their hit song "Eye of the Tiger."
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B.
John Cagan
John Cagan is the namesake of Cagan Stadium, likely a significant benefactor or figure associated with the institution that owns the venue.
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C.
Warren DeMartini
Warren DeMartini is an American guitarist best known as the lead guitarist for the glam metal band Ratt, where his melodic, technically skilled playing helped define the group’s signature sound in the 1980s.
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D.
Gordon Bell
Gordon Bell is an American computer engineer and pioneer in computer architecture, best known for his influential work at Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) and contributions to minicomputer and bus design.
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E.
Douglas Davenport
Douglas Davenport is a brilliant but morally ambiguous scientist and the primary antagonist-turned-ally in the Disney XD series "Lab Rats."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (9)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
animated film
ⓘ
cinematographer ⓘ person ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| genre | animation ⓘ |
| knownFor | Shrek 2 ⓘ |
| notableWork | Shrek 2 ⓘ |
| occupation | cinematographer ⓘ |
| workedOn | Shrek 2 ⓘ |
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 B. Allen Description of subject: David B. Allen is a cinematographer best known for his work on the animated film "Shrek 2."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.