David Matalon
E293659
David Matalon is a film producer best known for his work on the acclaimed 1993 drama "What's Eating Gilbert Grape."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Matalon canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2658376 — 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 Matalon Context triple: [What's Eating Gilbert Grape, producer, David Matalon]
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A.
Alan Rothenberg
Alan Rothenberg is an American sports executive and attorney best known for his leadership roles in U.S. soccer, including helping bring and organize the 1994 FIFA World Cup in the United States.
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B.
Dan Morgenstern
Dan Morgenstern is an American jazz historian, critic, and archivist renowned for his leadership of the Institute of Jazz Studies and his Grammy-winning liner notes.
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C.
Joel Podolny
Joel Podolny is an American sociologist and academic leader known for his work on organizational behavior and for serving in senior roles at top universities and major companies, including as a dean and corporate executive.
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D.
Paul Feldman
Paul Feldman is a computer scientist and cryptographer known for his work on digital signatures and other foundational topics in modern cryptography.
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E.
Samuel Dracutt
Samuel Dracutt was a historical figure after whom the town of Dracut, Massachusetts, was named, likely an early landowner or prominent local settler.
- 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 Matalon Target entity description: David Matalon is a film producer best known for his work on the acclaimed 1993 drama "What's Eating Gilbert Grape."
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A.
Alan Rothenberg
Alan Rothenberg is an American sports executive and attorney best known for his leadership roles in U.S. soccer, including helping bring and organize the 1994 FIFA World Cup in the United States.
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B.
Dan Morgenstern
Dan Morgenstern is an American jazz historian, critic, and archivist renowned for his leadership of the Institute of Jazz Studies and his Grammy-winning liner notes.
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C.
Joel Podolny
Joel Podolny is an American sociologist and academic leader known for his work on organizational behavior and for serving in senior roles at top universities and major companies, including as a dean and corporate executive.
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D.
Paul Feldman
Paul Feldman is a computer scientist and cryptographer known for his work on digital signatures and other foundational topics in modern cryptography.
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E.
Samuel Dracutt
Samuel Dracutt was a historical figure after whom the town of Dracut, Massachusetts, was named, likely an early landowner or prominent local settler.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (11)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
feature film
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film producer ⓘ |
| activeIn | 1990s film production ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States (likely)
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linked to:
United States of America
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| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| fieldOfWork | film industry ⓘ |
| genre | drama film ⓘ |
| notableWork | What's Eating Gilbert Grape ⓘ |
| occupation | film producer ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1993 ⓘ |
| roleInWork | producer of What's Eating Gilbert Grape ⓘ |
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 Matalon Description of subject: David Matalon is a film producer best known for his work on the acclaimed 1993 drama "What's Eating Gilbert Grape."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.