David Magee
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David Magee is an American screenwriter best known for his acclaimed adaptations of literary works, including the film version of "Life of Pi."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Magee canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1105662 — 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 Magee Context triple: [Life of Pi, screenwriter, David Magee]
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Philippa Boyens
Philippa Boyens is a New Zealand screenwriter and producer best known for co-writing Peter Jackson’s film adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien’s works, including The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
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B.
David Koepp
David Koepp is an American screenwriter and director best known for writing major Hollywood films such as Jurassic Park, Mission: Impossible, and Spider-Man.
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C.
Roberto Orci
Roberto Orci is a Mexican-American screenwriter and producer best known for co-writing and producing major science fiction and action franchises such as the rebooted Star Trek films and the Transformers series.
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D.
Paul Darrow
Paul Darrow was the son of famed American lawyer Clarence Darrow and a businessman who managed many of his father's financial affairs.
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E.
Phil Tippett
Phil Tippett is an acclaimed American visual effects supervisor and stop-motion animator renowned for his groundbreaking creature and character work on films such as Star Wars, Jurassic Park, and RoboCop.
- 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 Magee Target entity description: David Magee is an American screenwriter best known for his acclaimed adaptations of literary works, including the film version of "Life of Pi."
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A.
Philippa Boyens
Philippa Boyens is a New Zealand screenwriter and producer best known for co-writing Peter Jackson’s film adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien’s works, including The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
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B.
David Koepp
David Koepp is an American screenwriter and director best known for writing major Hollywood films such as Jurassic Park, Mission: Impossible, and Spider-Man.
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C.
Roberto Orci
Roberto Orci is a Mexican-American screenwriter and producer best known for co-writing and producing major science fiction and action franchises such as the rebooted Star Trek films and the Transformers series.
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D.
Paul Darrow
Paul Darrow was the son of famed American lawyer Clarence Darrow and a businessman who managed many of his father's financial affairs.
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E.
Phil Tippett
Phil Tippett is an acclaimed American visual effects supervisor and stop-motion animator renowned for his groundbreaking creature and character work on films such as Star Wars, Jurassic Park, and RoboCop.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
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 Magee Description of subject: David Magee is an American screenwriter best known for his acclaimed adaptations of literary works, including the film version of "Life of Pi."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Little Mermaid (2023 film)