David Sirota
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David Sirota is an American journalist, author, and political commentator who co-wrote the screenplay for the satirical disaster film "Don't Look Up."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Sirota canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2658324 — 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 Sirota Context triple: [Don't Look Up, screenwriter, David Sirota]
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A.
John Nichols
John Nichols is an American local politician serving as the mayor of College Station, Texas.
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B.
Tom Engelhardt
Tom Engelhardt is an American editor, essayist, and critic best known for founding and running the political commentary site TomDispatch, where he writes extensively on U.S. foreign policy, militarism, and empire.
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C.
Jeffrey Goldberg
Jeffrey Goldberg is an American journalist and author known for his long-form reporting on foreign policy and national security, and for serving as editor-in-chief of The Atlantic.
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D.
Jeremy Scahill
Jeremy Scahill is an American investigative journalist and author known for his reporting on U.S. foreign policy, private military contractors, and national security issues.
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E.
Max Borenstein
Max Borenstein is an American screenwriter and producer best known for his work on the modern Godzilla and MonsterVerse films.
- 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 Sirota Target entity description: David Sirota is an American journalist, author, and political commentator who co-wrote the screenplay for the satirical disaster film "Don't Look Up."
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A.
John Nichols
John Nichols is an American local politician serving as the mayor of College Station, Texas.
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B.
Tom Engelhardt
Tom Engelhardt is an American editor, essayist, and critic best known for founding and running the political commentary site TomDispatch, where he writes extensively on U.S. foreign policy, militarism, and empire.
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C.
Jeffrey Goldberg
Jeffrey Goldberg is an American journalist and author known for his long-form reporting on foreign policy and national security, and for serving as editor-in-chief of The Atlantic.
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D.
Jeremy Scahill
Jeremy Scahill is an American investigative journalist and author known for his reporting on U.S. foreign policy, private military contractors, and national security issues.
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E.
Max Borenstein
Max Borenstein is an American screenwriter and producer best known for his work on the modern Godzilla and MonsterVerse films.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
author
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film ⓘ human ⓘ journalist ⓘ political commentator ⓘ satirical film ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| coWroteScreenplayFor | Don't Look Up ⓘ |
| familyName | Sirota ⓘ |
| genre |
disaster film
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non-fiction ⓘ political commentary ⓘ political journalism ⓘ satire ⓘ |
| givenName | David ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | David Sirota self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor |
investigative reporting on politics
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progressive political commentary ⓘ |
| notableWork | Don't Look Up ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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journalist ⓘ political commentator ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| screenwriter | David Sirota self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
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 Sirota Description of subject: David Sirota is an American journalist, author, and political commentator who co-wrote the screenplay for the satirical disaster film "Don't Look Up."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Don't Look Up