David Hornsby
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David Hornsby is an American actor, writer, and producer best known for his role as Rickety Cricket on the TV series "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Hornsby canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13384340 — 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 Hornsby Context triple: [Good Girls, castMember, David Hornsby]
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A.
Maty Siman
Maty Siman is a technology entrepreneur best known as the founder of the application security company Checkmarx.
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B.
Josh Dylan
Josh Dylan is a British actor best known for his role as young Bill in the film "Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again."
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C.
Luke Bosso
Luke Bosso is an American sports administrator who has served as the athletic director for the IUPUI Jaguars athletic program.
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D.
Carter Thicke
Carter Thicke is the son of the late Canadian actor and TV host Alan Thicke.
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E.
Leon Shamroy
Leon Shamroy was an acclaimed American cinematographer, renowned for his work on numerous Hollywood classics and for winning multiple Academy Awards during the mid-20th century.
- 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 Hornsby Target entity description: David Hornsby is an American actor, writer, and producer best known for his role as Rickety Cricket on the TV series "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia."
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A.
Maty Siman
Maty Siman is a technology entrepreneur best known as the founder of the application security company Checkmarx.
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B.
Josh Dylan
Josh Dylan is a British actor best known for his role as young Bill in the film "Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again."
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C.
Luke Bosso
Luke Bosso is an American sports administrator who has served as the athletic director for the IUPUI Jaguars athletic program.
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D.
Carter Thicke
Carter Thicke is the son of the late Canadian actor and TV host Alan Thicke.
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E.
Leon Shamroy
Leon Shamroy was an acclaimed American cinematographer, renowned for his work on numerous Hollywood classics and for winning multiple Academy Awards during the mid-20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
ⓘ
film actor ⓘ human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ television actor ⓘ television producer ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| characterPortrayed | Rickety Cricket NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterPortrayedIn | Rickety Cricket in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
CMU
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surface form:
Carnegie Mellon University
|
| fieldOfWork |
acting
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screenwriting ⓘ television comedy ⓘ |
| genre | comedy ⓘ |
| hasActedIn |
Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Good Girls NERFINISHED ⓘ How to Be a Gentleman NERFINISHED ⓘ It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia NERFINISHED ⓘ Minority Report NERFINISHED ⓘ Mythic Quest NERFINISHED ⓘ Pearl Harbor NERFINISHED ⓘ Six Feet Under NERFINISHED ⓘ The Goldbergs NERFINISHED ⓘ Unsupervised NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasProduced |
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mythic Quest NERFINISHED ⓘ Unsupervised NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasWrittenFor |
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mythic Quest NERFINISHED ⓘ Unsupervised NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | cast of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia ⓘ |
| name | David Hornsby NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableRole | Matthew 'Rickety Cricket' Mara on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mythic Quest NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
television producer ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| relativeByMarriage | Zooey Deschanel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Emily Deschanel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation | Los Angeles ⓘ |
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 Hornsby Description of subject: David Hornsby is an American actor, writer, and producer best known for his role as Rickety Cricket on the TV series "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
David Brittlesbee