David Phillips
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David Phillips was a film cinematographer best known for his work on the 1995 drama "The Basketball Diaries" starring Leonardo DiCaprio.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Phillips canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2658424 — 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 Phillips Context triple: [The Basketball Diaries, cinematographer, David Phillips]
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A.
Philip Bruns
Philip Bruns was an American character actor best known for his television and film roles in the 1970s and 1980s, including his work on the satirical soap opera "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman."
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B.
David Duffield
David Duffield is an American billionaire entrepreneur and philanthropist best known for founding the enterprise software companies PeopleSoft and Workday.
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C.
Phillip P. Keene
Phillip P. Keene is an American actor best known for his role as tech-savvy investigator Buzz Watson on the television crime dramas "The Closer" and its spin-off "Major Crimes."
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D.
Philip Smith
Philip Smith is a member of the family of Jeffrey Lurie, the owner of the NFL’s Philadelphia Eagles.
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E.
Douglas Wick
Douglas Wick is an American film producer known for acclaimed movies such as "Gladiator," "Working Girl," and "Memoirs of a Geisha."
- 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 Phillips Target entity description: David Phillips was a film cinematographer best known for his work on the 1995 drama "The Basketball Diaries" starring Leonardo DiCaprio.
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A.
Philip Bruns
Philip Bruns was an American character actor best known for his television and film roles in the 1970s and 1980s, including his work on the satirical soap opera "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman."
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B.
David Duffield
David Duffield is an American billionaire entrepreneur and philanthropist best known for founding the enterprise software companies PeopleSoft and Workday.
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C.
Phillip P. Keene
Phillip P. Keene is an American actor best known for his role as tech-savvy investigator Buzz Watson on the television crime dramas "The Closer" and its spin-off "Major Crimes."
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D.
Philip Smith
Philip Smith is a member of the family of Jeffrey Lurie, the owner of the NFL’s Philadelphia Eagles.
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E.
Douglas Wick
Douglas Wick is an American film producer known for acclaimed movies such as "Gladiator," "Working Girl," and "Memoirs of a Geisha."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cinematographer
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film ⓘ person ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| genre | drama film ⓘ |
| knownFor | The Basketball Diaries ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Basketball Diaries ⓘ |
| occupation | cinematographer ⓘ |
| profession | film cinematographer ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1995 ⓘ |
| starring | Leonardo DiCaprio ⓘ |
| workedOn | The Basketball Diaries ⓘ |
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 Phillips Description of subject: David Phillips was a film cinematographer best known for his work on the 1995 drama "The Basketball Diaries" starring Leonardo DiCaprio.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.