David Dorfman
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David Dorfman is an American actor best known for playing the young boy Aidan Keller in the horror film "The Ring" and its sequel.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Dorfman canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7022745 — 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 Dorfman Context triple: [The Ring, castMember, David Dorfman]
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A.
David Fleishman
David Fleishman is an American educational administrator known for leading the Newton Public Schools district in Massachusetts.
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B.
Douglas Meyer
Douglas Meyer is a theatrical producer best known for his work on the Broadway musical adaptation of "The Wedding Singer."
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C.
Paul Vogel
Paul Vogel was an American cinematographer best known for his work on classic Hollywood films, including the Oscar-winning "Battleground."
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D.
Dan Futterman
Dan Futterman is an American actor and Academy Award–nominated screenwriter known for writing the film "Capote" and co-creating the TV series "In Treatment."
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E.
Jon Jory
Jon Jory is an influential American theatre director, producer, and educator best known for his leadership at Actors Theatre of Louisville and his impact on contemporary regional theatre.
- 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 Dorfman Target entity description: David Dorfman is an American actor best known for playing the young boy Aidan Keller in the horror film "The Ring" and its sequel.
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A.
David Fleishman
David Fleishman is an American educational administrator known for leading the Newton Public Schools district in Massachusetts.
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B.
Douglas Meyer
Douglas Meyer is a theatrical producer best known for his work on the Broadway musical adaptation of "The Wedding Singer."
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C.
Paul Vogel
Paul Vogel was an American cinematographer best known for his work on classic Hollywood films, including the Oscar-winning "Battleground."
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D.
Dan Futterman
Dan Futterman is an American actor and Academy Award–nominated screenwriter known for writing the film "Capote" and co-creating the TV series "In Treatment."
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E.
Jon Jory
Jon Jory is an influential American theatre director, producer, and educator best known for his leadership at Actors Theatre of Louisville and his impact on contemporary regional theatre.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film ⓘ film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeInField |
film
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television ⓘ |
| characterPortrayed | Aidan Keller ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Dorfman ⓘ |
| genre |
horror film
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horror film ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkActedIn | horror film ⓘ |
| givenName | David ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
portraying Aidan Keller in The Ring
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portraying Aidan Keller in The Ring Two ⓘ |
| notableWork |
The Ring
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The Ring Two ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| presentInWork |
The Ring
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The Ring Two ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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 Dorfman Description of subject: David Dorfman is an American actor best known for playing the young boy Aidan Keller in the horror film "The Ring" and its sequel.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.