David Grant
E683633
David Grant is the aging, cantankerous Midwestern man who embarks on a delusional road trip to claim a supposed sweepstakes prize in Alexander Payne’s film "Nebraska."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Grant canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7712271 — 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 Grant Context triple: [Nebraska, mainCharacter, David Grant]
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A.
Philip Dimmitt
Philip Dimmitt was a Texian military and political leader during the Texas Revolution, noted for his prominent role in early revolutionary activities and command responsibilities.
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B.
Tony Mullen
Tony Mullen is a computer graphics and animation expert best known for his books and tutorials on Blender and 3D animation.
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C.
Robert Reid
Robert Reid was a prominent Scottish architect of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, noted for his influential neoclassical public buildings in Edinburgh.
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D.
Robert Reid
Robert Reid is a former American professional basketball player best known as a versatile forward and key contributor for the Houston Rockets during the late 1970s and 1980s.
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E.
Charles Groves
Charles Groves was a distinguished British conductor renowned for his interpretations of English orchestral music and his leadership of major UK orchestras in the mid-20th century.
- 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 Grant Target entity description: David Grant is the aging, cantankerous Midwestern man who embarks on a delusional road trip to claim a supposed sweepstakes prize in Alexander Payne’s film "Nebraska."
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A.
Philip Dimmitt
Philip Dimmitt was a Texian military and political leader during the Texas Revolution, noted for his prominent role in early revolutionary activities and command responsibilities.
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B.
Tony Mullen
Tony Mullen is a computer graphics and animation expert best known for his books and tutorials on Blender and 3D animation.
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C.
Robert Reid
Robert Reid was a prominent Scottish architect of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, noted for his influential neoclassical public buildings in Edinburgh.
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D.
Robert Reid
Robert Reid is a former American professional basketball player best known as a versatile forward and key contributor for the Houston Rockets during the late 1970s and 1980s.
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E.
Charles Groves
Charles Groves was a distinguished British conductor renowned for his interpretations of English orchestral music and his leadership of major UK orchestras in the mid-20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| ageCharacteristic | aging ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Nebraska ⓘ |
| associatedTheme |
American Midwest life
ⓘ
aging ⓘ disillusionment ⓘ family relationships ⓘ |
| createdBy | Alexander Payne ⓘ |
| createdFor | film ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Nebraska (film) ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | black-and-white comedy-drama ⓘ |
| introducedIn | 2013 film Nebraska ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | cinema ⓘ |
| motivation | to claim a supposed sweepstakes prize ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableAction | embarks on a road trip ⓘ |
| personalityTrait | cantankerous ⓘ |
| placeOfOrigin | Midwestern United States ⓘ |
| primarySettingRegion |
Montana
ⓘ
Nebraska ⓘ |
| roadTripType | delusional ⓘ |
| yearOfIntroduction | 2013 ⓘ |
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 Grant Description of subject: David Grant is the aging, cantankerous Midwestern man who embarks on a delusional road trip to claim a supposed sweepstakes prize in Alexander Payne’s film "Nebraska."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.