David Sheffield
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David Sheffield is an American comedy writer best known for co-writing several Eddie Murphy films and contributing to classic Saturday Night Live sketches.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Sheffield canonical | 16 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3204985 — 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 Sheffield Context triple: [Nutty Professor II: The Klumps, screenwriter, David Sheffield]
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A.
Graham Carr
Graham Carr is a Canadian academic and administrator who serves as the president of Concordia University in Montreal.
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B.
David Shackleton
David Shackleton was a prominent British trade union leader and Labour politician who played a key role in the early development of the Labour movement in the United Kingdom.
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C.
David Holloway
David Holloway is a literary figure best known for serving on the distinguished jury that selected the Booker of Bookers award.
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D.
Barry Kemp
Barry Kemp is an American television writer and producer best known for creating and producing popular sitcoms such as "Newhart" and "Coach."
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E.
David Richmond
David Richmond was a civil rights activist best known as one of the four African American students who initiated the 1960 Greensboro sit-ins challenging racial segregation at a Woolworth’s lunch counter in North Carolina.
- 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 Sheffield Target entity description: David Sheffield is an American comedy writer best known for co-writing several Eddie Murphy films and contributing to classic Saturday Night Live sketches.
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A.
Graham Carr
Graham Carr is a Canadian academic and administrator who serves as the president of Concordia University in Montreal.
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B.
David Shackleton
David Shackleton was a prominent British trade union leader and Labour politician who played a key role in the early development of the Labour movement in the United Kingdom.
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C.
David Holloway
David Holloway is a literary figure best known for serving on the distinguished jury that selected the Booker of Bookers award.
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D.
Barry Kemp
Barry Kemp is an American television writer and producer best known for creating and producing popular sitcoms such as "Newhart" and "Coach."
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E.
David Richmond
David Richmond was a civil rights activist best known as one of the four African American students who initiated the 1960 Greensboro sit-ins challenging racial segregation at a Woolworth’s lunch counter in North Carolina.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
comedy writer
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person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ television writer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| coWriterWith |
Barry W. Blaustein
NERFINISHED
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Eddie Murphy ⓘ |
| employer | Saturday Night Live ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film comedy
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screenwriting ⓘ television comedy ⓘ |
| genre | comedy ⓘ |
| industry |
film industry
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television industry ⓘ |
| knownFor |
co-writing films starring Eddie Murphy
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writing comedy sketches for Saturday Night Live ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Boomerang
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Coming 2 America ⓘ Coming to America ⓘ Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment ⓘ The Nutty Professor (1996 film) ⓘ
surface form:
The Nutty Professor
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| occupation |
comedy writer
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screenwriter ⓘ television writer ⓘ |
| workedOn | Saturday Night Live ⓘ |
| wroteFor | Eddie Murphy ⓘ |
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 Sheffield Description of subject: David Sheffield is an American comedy writer best known for co-writing several Eddie Murphy films and contributing to classic Saturday Night Live sketches.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.