Dave Sheridan
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Dave Sheridan is an American actor and comedian best known for his role as the bumbling Officer Doofy in the parody film "Scary Movie."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dave Sheridan canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5914114 — 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: Dave Sheridan Context triple: [Scary Movie, starring, Dave Sheridan]
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A.
Greg Shephard
Greg Shephard is a television producer best known for his executive production work on the true-crime drama series "The Act."
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B.
Matthew Shafer
Matthew Shafer is an American writer known for his work on the animated series "Cowboy Bebop" and related projects.
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C.
Matthew Shafer
Matthew Shafer, better known by his stage name Uncle Kracker, is an American singer-songwriter and musician recognized for his blend of rock, country, and pop influences.
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D.
John Shinn
John Shinn was the founder of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, one of the oldest natural history institutions in the United States.
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E.
Dave Keuning
Dave Keuning is an American guitarist and songwriter best known as the lead guitarist and a founding member of the rock band The Killers.
- 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: Dave Sheridan Target entity description: Dave Sheridan is an American actor and comedian best known for his role as the bumbling Officer Doofy in the parody film "Scary Movie."
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A.
Greg Shephard
Greg Shephard is a television producer best known for his executive production work on the true-crime drama series "The Act."
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B.
Matthew Shafer
Matthew Shafer is an American writer known for his work on the animated series "Cowboy Bebop" and related projects.
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C.
Matthew Shafer
Matthew Shafer, better known by his stage name Uncle Kracker, is an American singer-songwriter and musician recognized for his blend of rock, country, and pop influences.
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D.
John Shinn
John Shinn was the founder of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, one of the oldest natural history institutions in the United States.
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E.
Dave Keuning
Dave Keuning is an American guitarist and songwriter best known as the lead guitarist and a founding member of the rock band The Killers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (23)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
ⓘ
comedian ⓘ film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film
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stand-up comedy ⓘ television ⓘ |
| genre | comedy ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Sheridan ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Dave ⓘ |
| isA |
American film actor
ⓘ
American male comedian ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableRole | Officer Doofy ⓘ |
| notableWork | Scary Movie ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
comedian ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Scary Movie ⓘ |
| portrayed | Officer Doofy in Scary Movie ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation | United States of America ⓘ |
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: Dave Sheridan Description of subject: Dave Sheridan is an American actor and comedian best known for his role as the bumbling Officer Doofy in the parody film "Scary Movie."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.