David Hunt (director)
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David Hunt is a British-born actor and film and television director, known for his work in both UK and American productions and for his marriage to actress Patricia Heaton.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Hunt (director) canonical | 3 |
| David Hunt (film actor) | 1 |
| David Hunt (film producer) | 1 |
| David Hunt (producer) | 1 |
| David Hunt (screenwriter) | 1 |
| David Hunt (television producer) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6484225 — 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 Hunt (director) Context triple: [David Hunt (disambiguation), hasNotableBearer, David Hunt (director)]
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A.
Richie Wise
Richie Wise is a musician best known as a member of the hard rock band Dust.
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B.
John Guillermin
John Guillermin was a British film director known for his work on large-scale adventure and disaster films, including the 1976 remake of King Kong and The Towering Inferno.
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C.
Gordon Douglas
Gordon Douglas was an American film director known for his prolific work across genres in Hollywood from the 1930s through the 1970s.
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D.
Ken Hughes
Ken Hughes was a British film director and screenwriter best known for directing the 1968 musical fantasy film "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang."
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E.
Robert Gardner
Robert Gardner is an American documentary filmmaker and anthropologist best known for his influential ethnographic films such as "Dead Birds" and "Forest of Bliss."
- 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 Hunt (director) Target entity description: David Hunt is a British-born actor and film and television director, known for his work in both UK and American productions and for his marriage to actress Patricia Heaton.
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A.
Richie Wise
Richie Wise is a musician best known as a member of the hard rock band Dust.
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B.
John Guillermin
John Guillermin was a British film director known for his work on large-scale adventure and disaster films, including the 1976 remake of King Kong and The Towering Inferno.
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C.
Gordon Douglas
Gordon Douglas was an American film director known for his prolific work across genres in Hollywood from the 1930s through the 1970s.
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D.
Ken Hughes
Ken Hughes was a British film director and screenwriter best known for directing the 1968 musical fantasy film "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang."
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E.
Robert Gardner
Robert Gardner is an American documentary filmmaker and anthropologist best known for his influential ethnographic films such as "Dead Birds" and "Forest of Bliss."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British actor
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film director ⓘ human ⓘ television director ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
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drama ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
marriage to actress Patricia Heaton
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work in American film and television ⓘ work in British film and television ⓘ |
| notableWork |
24
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Amazing Grace ⓘ Everybody Loves Raymond ⓘ Monk ⓘ Numb3rs ⓘ The Black Velvet Gown ⓘ The Dead Pool ⓘ The Engagement Ring ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
film director ⓘ television director ⓘ |
| residence |
Los Angeles
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United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse |
Patricia Heaton
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Patricia Heaton (m. 1990) ⓘ |
| workLocation |
United Kingdom
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United States ⓘ
linked to:
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: David Hunt (director) Description of subject: David Hunt is a British-born actor and film and television director, known for his work in both UK and American productions and for his marriage to actress Patricia Heaton.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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David Hunt
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David Hunt
linked to: David Hunt (director)
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David Hunt
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subject linked to:
David Hunt
linked to: David Hunt (director)
subject linked to:
David Hunt
linked to: David Hunt (director)
subject linked to:
David Hunt
linked to: David Hunt (director)