David N. Weiss
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David N. Weiss is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing popular family and animated films such as "Shrek 2" and "The Smurfs."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David N. Weiss canonical | 16 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7451743 — 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 N. Weiss Context triple: [Disenchanted, storyBy, David N. Weiss]
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A.
Robert K. Weiss
Robert K. Weiss is an American film and television producer best known for his work on comedy projects such as "The Naked Gun" series and collaborations with the Zucker brothers.
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B.
Daniel H. Weiss
Daniel H. Weiss is an American art historian and academic leader who served as president and CEO of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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C.
William Weiss
William Weiss is a personal name shared by multiple individuals, including various professionals and public figures across different fields.
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D.
David Weisberg
David Weisberg is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the action film "The Rock" and other Hollywood thrillers.
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E.
Robert M. Weitman
Robert M. Weitman was an American film producer active in mid-20th-century Hollywood, known for overseeing a range of studio features and genre films.
- 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 N. Weiss Target entity description: David N. Weiss is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing popular family and animated films such as "Shrek 2" and "The Smurfs."
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A.
Robert K. Weiss
Robert K. Weiss is an American film and television producer best known for his work on comedy projects such as "The Naked Gun" series and collaborations with the Zucker brothers.
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B.
Daniel H. Weiss
Daniel H. Weiss is an American art historian and academic leader who served as president and CEO of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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C.
William Weiss
William Weiss is a personal name shared by multiple individuals, including various professionals and public figures across different fields.
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D.
David Weisberg
David Weisberg is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the action film "The Rock" and other Hollywood thrillers.
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E.
Robert M. Weitman
Robert M. Weitman was an American film producer active in mid-20th-century Hollywood, known for overseeing a range of studio features and genre films.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
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 N. Weiss Description of subject: David N. Weiss is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing popular family and animated films such as "Shrek 2" and "The Smurfs."
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.