David Ellison
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David Ellison is an American film producer and founder of Skydance Media, known for backing major Hollywood franchises and high-profile studio projects.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Ellison canonical | 15 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1790843 — 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)
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Target entity: David Ellison Context triple: [Air (2023 film), producer, David Ellison]
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A.
Peter Hunt
Peter Hunt is a British film editor and director best known for his work on the early James Bond films, including directing "On Her Majesty's Secret Service."
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B.
Michael G. Wilson
Michael G. Wilson is an American film producer best known for co-producing numerous James Bond films and helping oversee the long-running franchise.
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C.
Joel Silver
Joel Silver is a prominent American film producer known for high-octane action and genre-defining hits such as the "Lethal Weapon" and "The Matrix" franchises.
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D.
Steven S. DeKnight
Steven S. DeKnight is an American writer, producer, and director best known for his work on genre television series like Spartacus and Marvel's Daredevil, as well as his feature film directing.
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E.
Charles Roven
Charles Roven is an American film producer known for his work on major Hollywood blockbusters, including Christopher Nolan’s films such as Oppenheimer and The Dark Knight trilogy.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: David Ellison Target entity description: David Ellison is an American film producer and founder of Skydance Media, known for backing major Hollywood franchises and high-profile studio projects.
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A.
Peter Hunt
Peter Hunt is a British film editor and director best known for his work on the early James Bond films, including directing "On Her Majesty's Secret Service."
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B.
Michael G. Wilson
Michael G. Wilson is an American film producer best known for co-producing numerous James Bond films and helping oversee the long-running franchise.
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C.
Joel Silver
Joel Silver is a prominent American film producer known for high-octane action and genre-defining hits such as the "Lethal Weapon" and "The Matrix" franchises.
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D.
Steven S. DeKnight
Steven S. DeKnight is an American writer, producer, and director best known for his work on genre television series like Spartacus and Marvel's Daredevil, as well as his feature film directing.
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E.
Charles Roven
Charles Roven is an American film producer known for his work on major Hollywood blockbusters, including Christopher Nolan’s films such as Oppenheimer and The Dark Knight trilogy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
business executive
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entrepreneur ⓘ film producer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| basedIn | Santa Monica, California (via Skydance Media headquarters) ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
USC School of Cinematic Arts
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University of Southern California ⓘ |
| employer | Skydance Media ⓘ |
| familyName | Ellison ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film production
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media management ⓘ television production ⓘ |
| founded | Skydance Media ⓘ |
| givenName | David ⓘ |
| hasRelative |
Larry Ellison
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Megan Ellison ⓘ |
| industry |
film industry
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media industry ⓘ television industry ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| mother | Barbara Boothe ⓘ |
| name | David Ellison self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor |
backing high-profile studio projects
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backing major Hollywood franchises ⓘ |
| notableRole | key financier of blockbuster action franchises ⓘ |
| notableWork |
G.I. Joe: Retaliation
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surface form:
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (as producer via Skydance)
Jack Reacher: Never Go Back ⓘ
surface form:
Jack Reacher film series (as producer via Skydance)
Mission: Impossible film franchise (as producer via Skydance) ⓘ Skydance Animation projects ⓘ Skydance Interactive projects ⓘ Skydance Media ⓘ Skydance Sports projects ⓘ Skydance Media ⓘ
surface form:
Skydance Television projects
Star Trek feature films ⓘ
surface form:
Star Trek film franchise (as producer via Skydance)
Terminator: Dark Fate ⓘ
surface form:
Terminator: Dark Fate (as producer via Skydance)
Top Gun: Maverick (as producer via Skydance) ⓘ World War Z ⓘ
surface form:
World War Z (as producer via Skydance)
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| occupation |
businessperson
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chief executive officer ⓘ entrepreneur ⓘ film producer ⓘ |
| parent | Larry Ellison ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
chief executive officer of Skydance Media
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founder of Skydance Media ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sibling | Megan Ellison ⓘ |
| 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 Ellison Description of subject: David Ellison is an American film producer and founder of Skydance Media, known for backing major Hollywood franchises and high-profile studio projects.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.