David Dawson
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David Dawson is a British actor known for his work in television, film, and theatre, including a prominent role in the romantic drama film "My Policeman."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Dawson canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11898330 — 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 Dawson Context triple: [My Policeman, starring, David Dawson]
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A.
Mark Dawson
Mark Dawson is one of the children of the late British-American actor and game show host Richard Dawson.
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B.
Matthew Dawson
Matthew Dawson was a prominent 19th-century British racehorse trainer renowned for preparing multiple classic-winning Thoroughbreds.
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C.
Eb Dawson
Eb Dawson is a naive but lovable farmhand and surrogate son to Oliver and Lisa Douglas on the classic American sitcom "Green Acres."
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D.
Sam Dawson
Sam Dawson is a developmentally disabled single father who fights a legal battle to retain custody of his young daughter in the film "I Am Sam."
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E.
Gary Dawson
Gary Dawson is one of the children of British-American actor and game show host Richard Dawson.
- 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 Dawson Target entity description: David Dawson is a British actor known for his work in television, film, and theatre, including a prominent role in the romantic drama film "My Policeman."
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A.
Mark Dawson
Mark Dawson is one of the children of the late British-American actor and game show host Richard Dawson.
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B.
Matthew Dawson
Matthew Dawson was a prominent 19th-century British racehorse trainer renowned for preparing multiple classic-winning Thoroughbreds.
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C.
Eb Dawson
Eb Dawson is a naive but lovable farmhand and surrogate son to Oliver and Lisa Douglas on the classic American sitcom "Green Acres."
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D.
Sam Dawson
Sam Dawson is a developmentally disabled single father who fights a legal battle to retain custody of his young daughter in the film "I Am Sam."
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E.
Gary Dawson
Gary Dawson is one of the children of British-American actor and game show host Richard Dawson.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
ⓘ
film actor ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
England
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| familyName | Dawson ⓘ |
| genre | drama ⓘ |
| givenName | David ⓘ |
| knownFor | portraying Patrick Hazlewood in My Policeman ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| mediumOfPerformance |
film
ⓘ
television ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| name | David Dawson ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Banished
ⓘ
Luther ⓘ My Policeman ⓘ
linked to:
My Policeman (film)
Ripper Street ⓘ Romeo and Juliet ⓘ The Duchess of Malfi ⓘ The Last Kingdom ⓘ The Road to Coronation Street ⓘ The Secret Agent ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation |
London
ⓘ
linked to:
London, England
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 Dawson Description of subject: David Dawson is a British actor known for his work in television, film, and theatre, including a prominent role in the romantic drama film "My Policeman."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.