David Lewis
E532276
David Lewis was a film producer best known for his collaborations with director Irving Rapper on classic Hollywood dramas such as "Dark Victory."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Lewis canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5559276 — 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 Lewis Context triple: [Dark Victory, producer, David Lewis]
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A.
David Lewis
David Lewis was an American philosopher renowned for his influential work in metaphysics, especially modal realism and possible worlds semantics, as well as significant contributions to philosophy of language and mind.
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B.
David E. Lewis
David E. Lewis is a screenwriter best known for his work on the acclaimed 1971 neo-noir thriller film "Klute."
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C.
John MacFarlane
John MacFarlane is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and former CEO of the wireless home audio company Sonos.
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D.
Crispin Wright
Crispin Wright is a prominent contemporary British philosopher best known for his influential work in the philosophy of language, logic, and mathematics, particularly on realism, anti-realism, and the nature of truth.
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E.
Galen Strawson
Galen Strawson is a contemporary British philosopher known for his influential work in metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and the critique of free will and moral responsibility.
- 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 Lewis Target entity description: David Lewis was a film producer best known for his collaborations with director Irving Rapper on classic Hollywood dramas such as "Dark Victory."
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A.
David Lewis
David Lewis was an American philosopher renowned for his influential work in metaphysics, especially modal realism and possible worlds semantics, as well as significant contributions to philosophy of language and mind.
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B.
David E. Lewis
David E. Lewis is a screenwriter best known for his work on the acclaimed 1971 neo-noir thriller film "Klute."
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C.
John MacFarlane
John MacFarlane is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and former CEO of the wireless home audio company Sonos.
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D.
Crispin Wright
Crispin Wright is a prominent contemporary British philosopher best known for his influential work in the philosophy of language, logic, and mathematics, particularly on realism, anti-realism, and the nature of truth.
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E.
Galen Strawson
Galen Strawson is a contemporary British philosopher known for his influential work in metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and the critique of free will and moral responsibility.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film producer ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | Irving Rapper NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | film production ⓘ |
| genre | drama film ⓘ |
| industry |
Hollywood
ⓘ
surface form:
Hollywood film industry
|
| notableFor |
collaborations with director Irving Rapper
ⓘ
producing classic Hollywood dramas ⓘ |
| notableWork | Dark Victory NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | film producer ⓘ |
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 Lewis Description of subject: David Lewis was a film producer best known for his collaborations with director Irving Rapper on classic Hollywood dramas such as "Dark Victory."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.