Keith David
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Keith David is an American actor and voice actor known for his deep, resonant voice and roles in films such as "The Thing," "They Live," and "Platoon," as well as extensive work in animation and video games.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Keith David canonical | 56 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2517547 — 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: Keith David Context triple: [The Quick and the Dead, castMember, Keith David]
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Scott Glenn
Scott Glenn is an American actor known for his intense, rugged performances in films such as "The Right Stuff," "The Silence of the Lambs," and "Backdraft."
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B.
Yaphet Kotto
Yaphet Kotto was an American actor best known for his powerful performances in films like Alien and Midnight Run and the TV series Homicide: Life on the Street.
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C.
Chris Sarandon
Chris Sarandon is an American actor known for his acclaimed supporting role in "Dog Day Afternoon" and for memorable performances in films such as "The Princess Bride" and "Fright Night."
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D.
Bob Gunton
Bob Gunton is an American character actor best known for his portrayal of the strict prison warden Samuel Norton in the film "The Shawshank Redemption."
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Paul Fix
Paul Fix was an American character actor best known for his numerous Western film and television roles, including his recurring part as Marshal Micah Torrance on the TV series "The Rifleman."
- 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: Keith David Target entity description: Keith David is an American actor and voice actor known for his deep, resonant voice and roles in films such as "The Thing," "They Live," and "Platoon," as well as extensive work in animation and video games.
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A.
Scott Glenn
Scott Glenn is an American actor known for his intense, rugged performances in films such as "The Right Stuff," "The Silence of the Lambs," and "Backdraft."
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B.
Yaphet Kotto
Yaphet Kotto was an American actor best known for his powerful performances in films like Alien and Midnight Run and the TV series Homicide: Life on the Street.
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C.
Chris Sarandon
Chris Sarandon is an American actor known for his acclaimed supporting role in "Dog Day Afternoon" and for memorable performances in films such as "The Princess Bride" and "Fright Night."
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D.
Bob Gunton
Bob Gunton is an American character actor best known for his portrayal of the strict prison warden Samuel Norton in the film "The Shawshank Redemption."
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E.
Paul Fix
Paul Fix was an American character actor best known for his numerous Western film and television roles, including his recurring part as Marshal Micah Torrance on the TV series "The Rifleman."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
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: Keith David Description of subject: Keith David is an American actor and voice actor known for his deep, resonant voice and roles in films such as "The Thing," "They Live," and "Platoon," as well as extensive work in animation and video games.
Referenced by (56)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Ken Burns documentary series "Jazz"
subject linked to:
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
subject linked to:
Chain Letter
subject linked to:
They Live (1988 film)
subject linked to:
documentary "Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson"
subject linked to:
film "ATL"