David Twohy
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David Twohy is an American filmmaker and screenwriter best known for writing and directing science fiction and action films such as the Riddick series.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Twohy canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4884644 — 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 Twohy Context triple: [Waterworld, screenwriter, David Twohy]
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A.
Ed Hartnett
Ed Hartnett is an American software developer best known as the creator and primary maintainer of the NetCDF-4 library widely used in scientific computing and data analysis.
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B.
Stephen McFeely
Stephen McFeely is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing several major Marvel Cinematic Universe films, including the Captain America trilogy and Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame.
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C.
Ken Moffett
Ken Moffett was a prominent American labor mediator and union negotiator best known for his key role in resolving major sports labor disputes, including those in Major League Baseball.
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D.
David Clouse
David Clouse is an entrepreneur best known as the founder of the vacation rental platform Vrbo (Vacation Rentals by Owner).
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E.
John Easterling
John Easterling is an American businessman and environmental entrepreneur best known as the husband of singer and actress Olivia Newton-John and as the founder of the Amazon Herb Company.
- 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 Twohy Target entity description: David Twohy is an American filmmaker and screenwriter best known for writing and directing science fiction and action films such as the Riddick series.
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A.
Ed Hartnett
Ed Hartnett is an American software developer best known as the creator and primary maintainer of the NetCDF-4 library widely used in scientific computing and data analysis.
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B.
Stephen McFeely
Stephen McFeely is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing several major Marvel Cinematic Universe films, including the Captain America trilogy and Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame.
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C.
Ken Moffett
Ken Moffett was a prominent American labor mediator and union negotiator best known for his key role in resolving major sports labor disputes, including those in Major League Baseball.
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D.
David Clouse
David Clouse is an entrepreneur best known as the founder of the vacation rental platform Vrbo (Vacation Rentals by Owner).
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E.
John Easterling
John Easterling is an American businessman and environmental entrepreneur best known as the husband of singer and actress Olivia Newton-John and as the founder of the Amazon Herb Company.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American filmmaker
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film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| activeInField | film industry ⓘ |
| activeSince | 1980s ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | Vin Diesel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| dateOfBirth | 1955-10-18 ⓘ |
| directed |
A Perfect Getaway
NERFINISHED
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Below NERFINISHED ⓘ Pitch Black NERFINISHED ⓘ Riddick NERFINISHED ⓘ The Arrival NERFINISHED ⓘ The Chronicles of Riddick NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Twohy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
action film
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science fiction film ⓘ |
| givenName | David NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| name | David Twohy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor | Riddick film series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Perfect Getaway
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Below NERFINISHED ⓘ Pitch Black NERFINISHED ⓘ Riddick NERFINISHED ⓘ The Arrival NERFINISHED ⓘ The Chronicles of Riddick NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
ⓘ
film producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
California
NERFINISHED
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Los Angeles County NERFINISHED ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| wroteScreenplayFor |
A Perfect Getaway
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Below NERFINISHED ⓘ Pitch Black NERFINISHED ⓘ Riddick NERFINISHED ⓘ The Arrival NERFINISHED ⓘ The Chronicles of Riddick NERFINISHED ⓘ The Fugitive NERFINISHED ⓘ Waterworld 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 Twohy Description of subject: David Twohy is an American filmmaker and screenwriter best known for writing and directing science fiction and action films such as the Riddick series.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.