David Sills
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David Sills was an American jurist and former mayor of Irvine, California, who later served as the presiding justice of the California Court of Appeal.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Sills canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1686387 — 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 Sills Context triple: [Maureen Reagan, spouse, David Sills]
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A.
Ozzie Silna
Ozzie Silna was an American businessman best known for striking an extraordinarily lucrative television revenue deal during the ABA–NBA merger as a former co-owner of the Spirits of St. Louis basketball team.
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B.
David Bonderman
David Bonderman is an American billionaire businessman and private equity investor, best known as a founding partner of TPG Capital and as a prominent owner of major professional sports franchises.
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C.
Ray Cusick
Ray Cusick was a British designer best known for creating the iconic look of the Daleks in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who.
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D.
Dan Dailey
Dan Dailey was an American actor and dancer best known for his roles in Hollywood musicals of the 1940s and 1950s.
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E.
Lyle Bettger
Lyle Bettger was an American character actor best known for his frequent portrayals of suave villains in mid-20th-century Hollywood films and television.
- 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 Sills Target entity description: David Sills was an American jurist and former mayor of Irvine, California, who later served as the presiding justice of the California Court of Appeal.
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A.
Ozzie Silna
Ozzie Silna was an American businessman best known for striking an extraordinarily lucrative television revenue deal during the ABA–NBA merger as a former co-owner of the Spirits of St. Louis basketball team.
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B.
David Bonderman
David Bonderman is an American billionaire businessman and private equity investor, best known as a founding partner of TPG Capital and as a prominent owner of major professional sports franchises.
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C.
Ray Cusick
Ray Cusick was a British designer best known for creating the iconic look of the Daleks in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who.
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D.
Dan Dailey
Dan Dailey was an American actor and dancer best known for his roles in Hollywood musicals of the 1940s and 1950s.
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E.
Lyle Bettger
Lyle Bettger was an American character actor best known for his frequent portrayals of suave villains in mid-20th-century Hollywood films and television.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American jurist
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human ⓘ judge ⓘ mayor ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
USC Gould School of Law
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University of Southern California ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
law
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municipal government ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
Fourth Appellate District
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surface form:
California Court of Appeal, Fourth Appellate District
|
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty | Republican Party ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Marine Corps ⓘ |
| militaryRank | officer ⓘ |
| notableFor |
serving as mayor of Irvine, California
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serving as presiding justice of the California Court of Appeal ⓘ |
| occupation |
judge
ⓘ
lawyer ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Judge of the California Court of Appeal
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Mayor of Irvine, California ⓘ Presiding Justice of the California Court of Appeal ⓘ |
| relative | Ronald Reagan ⓘ |
| residence |
Irvine
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surface form:
Irvine, California
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| spouse | Maureen Reagan ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Irvine
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surface form:
Irvine, California
Orange County, California ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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 Sills Description of subject: David Sills was an American jurist and former mayor of Irvine, California, who later served as the presiding justice of the California Court of Appeal.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.