Dave Erickson
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Dave Erickson is an American television writer and producer best known for co-creating and showrunning the post-apocalyptic horror drama series Fear the Walking Dead.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dave Erickson canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7044162 — 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 Erickson Context triple: [Fear the Walking Dead, creator, Dave Erickson]
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A.
David Rawlins
David Rawlins is a film editor best known for his work on movies such as the thriller "The Osterman Weekend."
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B.
Trevor Jones
Trevor Jones is a South African-born film composer known for his work on numerous prominent movie scores, including the romantic comedy "Notting Hill."
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C.
Jason Dooley
Jason Dooley is a musician best known as a performer associated with the band Born of You.
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D.
Mark Daboll
Mark Daboll is a member of the Daboll family, related to NFL head coach Brian Daboll.
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E.
Matt Drayton
Matt Drayton is a principled, liberal newspaper publisher and father in the 1967 film "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner," whose beliefs about racial equality are tested when his daughter becomes engaged to a Black man.
- 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 Erickson Target entity description: Dave Erickson is an American television writer and producer best known for co-creating and showrunning the post-apocalyptic horror drama series Fear the Walking Dead.
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A.
David Rawlins
David Rawlins is a film editor best known for his work on movies such as the thriller "The Osterman Weekend."
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B.
Trevor Jones
Trevor Jones is a South African-born film composer known for his work on numerous prominent movie scores, including the romantic comedy "Notting Hill."
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C.
Jason Dooley
Jason Dooley is a musician best known as a performer associated with the band Born of You.
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D.
Mark Daboll
Mark Daboll is a member of the Daboll family, related to NFL head coach Brian Daboll.
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E.
Matt Drayton
Matt Drayton is a principled, liberal newspaper publisher and father in the 1967 film "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner," whose beliefs about racial equality are tested when his daughter becomes engaged to a Black man.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American person
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television producer ⓘ television series ⓘ television writer ⓘ |
| coCreatorOf | Fear the Walking Dead ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| creator | Dave Erickson ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
screenwriting
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television industry ⓘ television production ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
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drama television ⓘ horror television ⓘ post-apocalyptic fiction ⓘ post-apocalyptic horror ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableWork | Fear the Walking Dead ⓘ |
| occupation |
showrunner
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television producer ⓘ television writer ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| showrunnerOf | Fear the Walking Dead ⓘ |
| workLocation |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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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 Erickson Description of subject: Dave Erickson is an American television writer and producer best known for co-creating and showrunning the post-apocalyptic horror drama series Fear the Walking Dead.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Dave Erickson
subject linked to:
Victor Strand in Fear the Walking Dead
subject linked to:
Travis Manawa in Fear the Walking Dead