David Seltzer
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David Seltzer is an American screenwriter and director best known for writing the horror classic "The Omen" (1976) and for his work on films such as "Lucas" and "Punchline."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Seltzer canonical | 20 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2326121 — 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 Seltzer Context triple: [The Omen (1976 film), screenwriter, David Seltzer]
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A.
Jerry Schatzberg
Jerry Schatzberg is an American photographer and film director known for his influential work in 1960s music photography and for directing acclaimed films such as "Panic in Needle Park" and "Scarecrow."
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B.
Richard Langer
Richard Langer is a relatively obscure individual whose specific public notability is not clearly established from the available information.
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C.
Michael C. Gross
Michael C. Gross was an American film producer and art director best known for his work on the Ghostbusters franchise and other popular comedies of the 1980s and early 1990s.
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D.
Tom Benedek
Tom Benedek is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the science fiction film "Cocoon."
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E.
Robert Towne
Robert Towne is an acclaimed American screenwriter and director best known for writing the Oscar-winning screenplay for "Chinatown" and contributing to several other landmark films of the New Hollywood era.
- 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 Seltzer Target entity description: David Seltzer is an American screenwriter and director best known for writing the horror classic "The Omen" (1976) and for his work on films such as "Lucas" and "Punchline."
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A.
Jerry Schatzberg
Jerry Schatzberg is an American photographer and film director known for his influential work in 1960s music photography and for directing acclaimed films such as "Panic in Needle Park" and "Scarecrow."
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B.
Richard Langer
Richard Langer is a relatively obscure individual whose specific public notability is not clearly established from the available information.
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C.
Michael C. Gross
Michael C. Gross was an American film producer and art director best known for his work on the Ghostbusters franchise and other popular comedies of the 1980s and early 1990s.
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D.
Tom Benedek
Tom Benedek is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the science fiction film "Cocoon."
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E.
Robert Towne
Robert Towne is an acclaimed American screenwriter and director best known for writing the Oscar-winning screenplay for "Chinatown" and contributing to several other landmark films of the New Hollywood era.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American film director
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American screenwriter ⓘ film director ⓘ human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| directed |
Lucas
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Punchline ⓘ Shining Through ⓘ |
| director |
David Seltzer
self-linksurface differs
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David Seltzer self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
cinema
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screenwriting ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy-drama film
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drama film ⓘ horror film ⓘ |
| knownFor | writing the screenplay for The Omen (1976) ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Lucas
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Punchline ⓘ The Omen (1976 film) ⓘ
surface form:
The Omen
The Omen (1976 film) ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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screenwriter ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
David Seltzer
self-linksurface differs
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David Seltzer self-linksurface differs ⓘ David Seltzer self-linksurface differs ⓘ David Seltzer self-linksurface differs ⓘ David Seltzer self-linksurface differs ⓘ David Seltzer self-linksurface differs ⓘ David Seltzer self-linksurface differs ⓘ David Seltzer self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| workPeriod |
20th century
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21st century ⓘ |
| wrote |
Bird on a Wire
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Dragonfly ⓘ Lucas ⓘ My Giant ⓘ Prophecy ⓘ Punchline ⓘ Shining Through ⓘ The Omen (1976 film) ⓘ
surface form:
The Omen
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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 Seltzer Description of subject: David Seltzer is an American screenwriter and director best known for writing the horror classic "The Omen" (1976) and for his work on films such as "Lucas" and "Punchline."
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Omen (1976 film)
subject surface form:
Lucas
subject surface form:
Lucas
subject surface form:
Punchline
subject surface form:
Punchline
subject surface form:
Shining Through
subject surface form:
Prophecy
subject surface form:
Bird on a Wire
subject surface form:
My Giant
subject surface form:
Dragonfly
subject surface form:
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory