David Kessler
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David Kessler is the ill-fated American tourist who becomes a werewolf after a brutal attack in the horror-comedy film "An American Werewolf in London."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Kessler canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5514196 — 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 Kessler Context triple: [An American Werewolf in London, mainCharacter, David Kessler]
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A.
Todd Lieberman
Todd Lieberman is an American film producer known for his work on acclaimed movies such as "The Fighter" and other major Hollywood productions.
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B.
Robert D. Siegel
Robert D. Siegel is an American screenwriter and director best known for writing character-driven dramas such as the film "The Wrestler."
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C.
Howard Klein
Howard Klein is a television producer known for his work on acclaimed series such as Carnivàle.
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D.
David Kershenbaum
David Kershenbaum is an American record producer known for his work with prominent artists across folk, rock, and pop music since the 1970s.
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E.
Ian Kahn
Ian Kahn is an American actor best known for playing George Washington on the television series "Turn: Washington's Spies."
- 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 Kessler Target entity description: David Kessler is the ill-fated American tourist who becomes a werewolf after a brutal attack in the horror-comedy film "An American Werewolf in London."
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A.
Todd Lieberman
Todd Lieberman is an American film producer known for his work on acclaimed movies such as "The Fighter" and other major Hollywood productions.
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B.
Robert D. Siegel
Robert D. Siegel is an American screenwriter and director best known for writing character-driven dramas such as the film "The Wrestler."
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C.
Howard Klein
Howard Klein is a television producer known for his work on acclaimed series such as Carnivàle.
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D.
David Kershenbaum
David Kershenbaum is an American record producer known for his work with prominent artists across folk, rock, and pop music since the 1970s.
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E.
Ian Kahn
Ian Kahn is an American actor best known for playing George Washington on the television series "Turn: Washington's Spies."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
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 Kessler Description of subject: David Kessler is the ill-fated American tourist who becomes a werewolf after a brutal attack in the horror-comedy film "An American Werewolf in London."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.