David Rayfiel
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David Rayfiel was an American screenwriter known for his frequent uncredited collaborations with director Sydney Pollack on films such as "Three Days of the Condor" and "Out of Africa."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Rayfiel canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3452084 — 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 Rayfiel Context triple: [Maureen Stapleton, spouse, David Rayfiel]
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A.
Michael Filerman
Michael Filerman was an American television producer best known for developing and producing popular prime-time soap operas during the 1970s and 1980s.
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B.
Charles Rackoff
Charles Rackoff is a Canadian computer scientist known for his influential work in cryptography and computational complexity theory.
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C.
Paul Isenberg
Paul Isenberg was a 19th-century German-born businessman and plantation manager in Hawaii who became a prominent figure in the islands’ sugar industry and local politics.
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D.
David Weiss
David Weiss is a common personal name shared by multiple notable individuals across fields such as law, music, and literature.
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E.
Stephen Goldblatt
Stephen Goldblatt is a British cinematographer known for his work on major films such as Charlie Wilson's War, Batman Forever, and Lethal Weapon.
- 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 Rayfiel Target entity description: David Rayfiel was an American screenwriter known for his frequent uncredited collaborations with director Sydney Pollack on films such as "Three Days of the Condor" and "Out of Africa."
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A.
Michael Filerman
Michael Filerman was an American television producer best known for developing and producing popular prime-time soap operas during the 1970s and 1980s.
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B.
Charles Rackoff
Charles Rackoff is a Canadian computer scientist known for his influential work in cryptography and computational complexity theory.
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C.
Paul Isenberg
Paul Isenberg was a 19th-century German-born businessman and plantation manager in Hawaii who became a prominent figure in the islands’ sugar industry and local politics.
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D.
David Weiss
David Weiss is a common personal name shared by multiple notable individuals across fields such as law, music, and literature.
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E.
Stephen Goldblatt
Stephen Goldblatt is a British cinematographer known for his work on major films such as Charlie Wilson's War, Batman Forever, and Lethal Weapon.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American screenwriter
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human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | Sydney Pollack ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Rayfiel ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
cinema
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film ⓘ motion pictures ⓘ |
| genre | screenwriting ⓘ |
| givenName | David ⓘ |
| knownFor | frequent uncredited script collaborations with Sydney Pollack ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Absence of Malice
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Absence of Malice (uncredited script work) ⓘ Castle Keep ⓘ The Keep (1983 film) ⓘ
surface form:
Castle Keep (screenplay)
Havana, Cuba ⓘ
surface form:
Havana
Havana (uncredited script work) ⓘ Intersection (1994 film) ⓘ Intersection (screenplay) ⓘ Jeremiah Johnson ⓘ Jeremiah Johnson (uncredited script work) ⓘ Out of Africa ⓘ Out of Africa ⓘ
surface form:
Out of Africa (uncredited script work)
Random Hearts ⓘ Random Hearts (uncredited script work) ⓘ Sabrina (1995 film) ⓘ Sabrina (1995 film) ⓘ
surface form:
Sabrina (1995 film, uncredited script work)
The Day of the Dolphin ⓘ The Day of the Dolphin (screenplay) ⓘ The Electric Horseman ⓘ The Electric Horseman (uncredited script work) ⓘ The Firm ⓘ The Firm ⓘ
surface form:
The Firm (uncredited script work)
The Interpreter ⓘ The Interpreter ⓘ
surface form:
The Interpreter (uncredited script work)
The Morning After ⓘ The Morning After ⓘ
surface form:
The Morning After (screenplay)
The Reincarnation of Peter Proud ⓘ The Reincarnation of Peter Proud ⓘ
surface form:
The Reincarnation of Peter Proud (screenplay)
The Slender Thread ⓘ The Slender Thread ⓘ
surface form:
The Slender Thread (screenplay)
The Way We Were ⓘ The Way We Were (uncredited script work) ⓘ Three Days of the Condor ⓘ Three Days of the Condor ⓘ
surface form:
Three Days of the Condor (uncredited script work)
The Yakuza ⓘ
surface form:
Yakuza
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| occupation |
screenwriter
ⓘ
writer ⓘ |
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 Rayfiel Description of subject: David Rayfiel was an American screenwriter known for his frequent uncredited collaborations with director Sydney Pollack on films such as "Three Days of the Condor" and "Out of Africa."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.