David Proval
E243088
David Proval is an American actor best known for his roles in gritty crime dramas, including his breakout performance in "Mean Streets" and his later work on "The Sopranos."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Proval canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2173116 — 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 Proval Context triple: [Mean Streets, starring, David Proval]
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A.
David S. Ward
David S. Ward is an American screenwriter and director best known for writing the Oscar-winning film "The Sting" and other popular movies.
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B.
Colin Prockter
Colin Prockter is a British character actor known for his numerous supporting roles in film and television, including an appearance in the crime comedy film "The Gentlemen."
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C.
David G. Bradley
David G. Bradley is an American businessman and publisher best known as the owner and longtime chairman of Atlantic Media, the parent company of The Atlantic.
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D.
Stephen F. Martin
Stephen F. Martin is an American organic chemist renowned for his influential research in synthetic methodology and complex molecule synthesis.
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E.
Michael V. Drake
Michael V. Drake is an American academic leader and physician who has served as president of both The Ohio State University and the University of California system.
- 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 Proval Target entity description: David Proval is an American actor best known for his roles in gritty crime dramas, including his breakout performance in "Mean Streets" and his later work on "The Sopranos."
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A.
David S. Ward
David S. Ward is an American screenwriter and director best known for writing the Oscar-winning film "The Sting" and other popular movies.
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B.
Colin Prockter
Colin Prockter is a British character actor known for his numerous supporting roles in film and television, including an appearance in the crime comedy film "The Gentlemen."
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C.
David G. Bradley
David G. Bradley is an American businessman and publisher best known as the owner and longtime chairman of Atlantic Media, the parent company of The Atlantic.
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D.
Stephen F. Martin
Stephen F. Martin is an American organic chemist renowned for his influential research in synthetic methodology and complex molecule synthesis.
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E.
Michael V. Drake
Michael V. Drake is an American academic leader and physician who has served as president of both The Ohio State University and the University of California system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
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 Proval Description of subject: David Proval is an American actor best known for his roles in gritty crime dramas, including his breakout performance in "Mean Streets" and his later work on "The Sopranos."
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.