David Newell
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David Newell is an American actor best known for playing the speedy deliveryman Mr. McFeely on the children's television series "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Newell canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4683070 — 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 Newell Context triple: [Mr. McFeely, portrayedBy, David Newell]
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A.
Philip Gross
Philip Gross is a British poet, novelist, and academic known for his reflective, formally inventive poetry and winner of major literary honors including the T. S. Eliot Prize.
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B.
Cliff Martinez
Cliff Martinez is an American film composer and former drummer known for his atmospheric, minimalist scores for directors like Steven Soderbergh and Nicolas Winding Refn.
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C.
Richard Hamlett
Richard Hamlett is an American real estate developer best known for his marriage to actress and singer Debbie Reynolds.
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D.
Glenn Shadix
Glenn Shadix was an American character actor best known for his eccentric roles in films like "Beetlejuice" and various voice performances in animated works.
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E.
Rob Tapert
Rob Tapert is an American film and television producer best known for co-creating and producing genre series like Xena: Warrior Princess and Spartacus, as well as collaborating frequently with director Sam Raimi on horror and fantasy projects.
- 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 Newell Target entity description: David Newell is an American actor best known for playing the speedy deliveryman Mr. McFeely on the children's television series "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood."
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A.
Philip Gross
Philip Gross is a British poet, novelist, and academic known for his reflective, formally inventive poetry and winner of major literary honors including the T. S. Eliot Prize.
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B.
Cliff Martinez
Cliff Martinez is an American film composer and former drummer known for his atmospheric, minimalist scores for directors like Steven Soderbergh and Nicolas Winding Refn.
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C.
Richard Hamlett
Richard Hamlett is an American real estate developer best known for his marriage to actress and singer Debbie Reynolds.
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D.
Glenn Shadix
Glenn Shadix was an American character actor best known for his eccentric roles in films like "Beetlejuice" and various voice performances in animated works.
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E.
Rob Tapert
Rob Tapert is an American film and television producer best known for co-creating and producing genre series like Xena: Warrior Princess and Spartacus, as well as collaborating frequently with director Sam Raimi on horror and fantasy projects.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Fred Rogers
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Mister Rogers ⓘ
linked to:
Fred Rogers
|
| characterPlayed | Mr. McFeely ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | Mister Rogers' Neighborhood ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
children's entertainment
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television acting ⓘ |
| genre | children's television ⓘ |
| hasGivenInterviewsAbout |
Fred Rogers
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Mister Rogers' Neighborhood ⓘ |
| hasRole | supporting actor on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood ⓘ |
| knownFor |
playing Mr. McFeely
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speedy deliveryman character on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mediaFranchise | Mister Rogers' Neighborhood ⓘ |
| name | David Newell ⓘ |
| notableRole | Mr. McFeely ⓘ |
| notableWork | Mister Rogers' Neighborhood ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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television actor ⓘ |
| partOf | cast of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood ⓘ |
| portrayedIn | documentaries about Mister Rogers' Neighborhood ⓘ |
| residence | Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| typeOfRepresentation | live-action performance ⓘ |
| workLocation | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ⓘ |
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 Newell Description of subject: David Newell is an American actor best known for playing the speedy deliveryman Mr. McFeely on the children's television series "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.