Joe David Brown
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Joe David Brown was an American novelist and journalist best known for writing the novel "Addie Pray," which was adapted into the film "Paper Moon."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Joe David Brown canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5433548 — 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: Joe David Brown Context triple: [Paper Moon, basedOnAuthor, Joe David Brown]
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A.
Michael Ironside
Michael Ironside is a Canadian actor known for his intense, often villainous roles in science fiction and action films such as "Total Recall," "Starship Troopers," and "Top Gun."
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B.
Corbin Bernsen
Corbin Bernsen is an American actor best known for his role as divorce attorney Arnie Becker on the television series "L.A. Law" and for numerous film and TV appearances spanning several decades.
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C.
Fred Ward
Fred Ward was an American character actor known for his rugged, everyman roles in films such as "Tremors," "The Right Stuff," and "Short Cuts."
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D.
Michael Kane
Michael Kane is a screenwriter best known for writing the 1983 American sports drama film "All the Right Moves."
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E.
Lance Henriksen
Lance Henriksen is an American character actor best known for his intense performances in science fiction and horror films such as the Alien franchise and the TV series Millennium.
- 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: Joe David Brown Target entity description: Joe David Brown was an American novelist and journalist best known for writing the novel "Addie Pray," which was adapted into the film "Paper Moon."
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A.
Michael Ironside
Michael Ironside is a Canadian actor known for his intense, often villainous roles in science fiction and action films such as "Total Recall," "Starship Troopers," and "Top Gun."
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B.
Corbin Bernsen
Corbin Bernsen is an American actor best known for his role as divorce attorney Arnie Becker on the television series "L.A. Law" and for numerous film and TV appearances spanning several decades.
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C.
Fred Ward
Fred Ward was an American character actor known for his rugged, everyman roles in films such as "Tremors," "The Right Stuff," and "Short Cuts."
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D.
Michael Kane
Michael Kane is a screenwriter best known for writing the 1983 American sports drama film "All the Right Moves."
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E.
Lance Henriksen
Lance Henriksen is an American character actor best known for his intense performances in science fiction and horror films such as the Alien franchise and the TV series Millennium.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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human ⓘ journalist ⓘ novel ⓘ novelist ⓘ |
| adaptedInto | Paper Moon ⓘ |
| author | Joe David Brown ⓘ |
| basedOn | Addie Pray ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy-drama film
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fiction ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Joe David Brown ⓘ |
| notableFor | writing the novel Addie Pray, adapted into the film Paper Moon ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Addie Pray
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Glimpse of a Stranger ⓘ Kings Go Forth ⓘ The Free Flag of Cuba ⓘ |
| occupation |
journalist
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novelist ⓘ |
| wrote |
Addie Pray
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Glimpse of a Stranger ⓘ Kings Go Forth ⓘ The Free Flag of Cuba ⓘ |
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: Joe David Brown Description of subject: Joe David Brown was an American novelist and journalist best known for writing the novel "Addie Pray," which was adapted into the film "Paper Moon."
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.