David Steinberg
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David Steinberg is a Canadian comedian, actor, director, and writer known for his influential stand-up career and for directing numerous episodes of popular television comedies such as Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Steinberg canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4567241 — 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 Steinberg Context triple: [Steinberg, hasNotableBearer, David Steinberg]
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A.
Scott Storch
Scott Storch is an American record producer and songwriter known for his influential work in hip-hop and pop music, crafting hits for artists like Dr. Dre, Beyoncé, and 50 Cent.
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B.
Robert Cohl
Robert Cohl is the son of Canadian film producer and Toronto International Film Festival co-founder Dusty Cohl.
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C.
Jake Adelstein
Jake Adelstein is an American journalist and author best known for his memoir "Tokyo Vice," which chronicles his experiences reporting on crime and the yakuza for a major Japanese newspaper.
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D.
Lewie Steinberg
Lewie Steinberg was an American bassist best known as an early member of the influential soul and R&B instrumental group Booker T. & the M.G.'s, contributing to the classic Stax Records sound.
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E.
Akiva Schaffer
Akiva Schaffer is an American filmmaker, comedian, and writer best known as a member of the comedy trio The Lonely Island and for directing films like "Hot Rod" and "Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping."
- 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 Steinberg Target entity description: David Steinberg is a Canadian comedian, actor, director, and writer known for his influential stand-up career and for directing numerous episodes of popular television comedies such as Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm.
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A.
Scott Storch
Scott Storch is an American record producer and songwriter known for his influential work in hip-hop and pop music, crafting hits for artists like Dr. Dre, Beyoncé, and 50 Cent.
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B.
Robert Cohl
Robert Cohl is the son of Canadian film producer and Toronto International Film Festival co-founder Dusty Cohl.
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C.
Jake Adelstein
Jake Adelstein is an American journalist and author best known for his memoir "Tokyo Vice," which chronicles his experiences reporting on crime and the yakuza for a major Japanese newspaper.
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D.
Lewie Steinberg
Lewie Steinberg was an American bassist best known as an early member of the influential soul and R&B instrumental group Booker T. & the M.G.'s, contributing to the classic Stax Records sound.
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E.
Akiva Schaffer
Akiva Schaffer is an American filmmaker, comedian, and writer best known as a member of the comedy trio The Lonely Island and for directing films like "Hot Rod" and "Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
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comedian ⓘ film director ⓘ human ⓘ stand-up comedian ⓘ television director ⓘ television producer ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Canada ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Canada
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United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1942-08-09 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Chicago ⓘ |
| familyName | Steinberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
stand-up comedy
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television comedy ⓘ |
| genre |
observational comedy
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satire ⓘ stand-up comedy ⓘ |
| givenName | David NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChild | 2 (children) ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
directed numerous episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm
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directed numerous episodes of Seinfeld ⓘ frequent guest host on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson ⓘ influential stand-up performances in the 1960s and 1970s ⓘ |
| notableRole | host of Inside Comedy ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Curb Your Enthusiasm
NERFINISHED
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Designing Women NERFINISHED ⓘ Going Berserk NERFINISHED ⓘ Inside Comedy NERFINISHED ⓘ Mad About You NERFINISHED ⓘ Newhart NERFINISHED ⓘ Paternity NERFINISHED ⓘ Seinfeld NERFINISHED ⓘ The Best of the David Steinberg Show NERFINISHED ⓘ The David Steinberg Show NERFINISHED ⓘ The Golden Girls NERFINISHED ⓘ The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour NERFINISHED ⓘ The Wrong Guy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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comedian ⓘ film director ⓘ television director ⓘ television producer ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Winnipeg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| residence | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| spouse | Robyn Todd NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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 Steinberg Description of subject: David Steinberg is a Canadian comedian, actor, director, and writer known for his influential stand-up career and for directing numerous episodes of popular television comedies such as Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.