David V. Lester
E691771
David V. Lester is a film producer best known for his work on major Hollywood features such as the basketball drama "Blue Chips."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David V. Lester canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7442592 — 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 V. Lester Context triple: [Blue Chips, producer, David V. Lester]
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A.
Mark L. Lester
Mark L. Lester is an American film director and producer best known for his work on 1980s action and genre films, including the cult classic "Commando."
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B.
R. Bruce Lindsay
R. Bruce Lindsay was an American physicist and acoustician known for his influential work in physical acoustics and contributions to the history and philosophy of science.
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C.
David R. Francis
David R. Francis was an American politician and diplomat who served as mayor of St. Louis, governor of Missouri, and U.S. ambassador to Russia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
Douglas J. Foskett
Douglas J. Foskett was a British librarian and information scientist known for his influential work in library classification and information retrieval.
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E.
Peter A. Tyrrell
Peter A. Tyrrell was an American sports executive and promoter best known for his role in establishing and developing the early professional basketball franchise that became the Philadelphia Warriors.
- 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 V. Lester Target entity description: David V. Lester is a film producer best known for his work on major Hollywood features such as the basketball drama "Blue Chips."
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A.
Mark L. Lester
Mark L. Lester is an American film director and producer best known for his work on 1980s action and genre films, including the cult classic "Commando."
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B.
R. Bruce Lindsay
R. Bruce Lindsay was an American physicist and acoustician known for his influential work in physical acoustics and contributions to the history and philosophy of science.
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C.
David R. Francis
David R. Francis was an American politician and diplomat who served as mayor of St. Louis, governor of Missouri, and U.S. ambassador to Russia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
Douglas J. Foskett
Douglas J. Foskett was a British librarian and information scientist known for his influential work in library classification and information retrieval.
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E.
Peter A. Tyrrell
Peter A. Tyrrell was an American sports executive and promoter best known for his role in establishing and developing the early professional basketball franchise that became the Philadelphia Warriors.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
feature film
ⓘ
film producer ⓘ |
| activeIn | Hollywood ⓘ |
| countryOfWork |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| fieldOfWork | film production ⓘ |
| genre | sports drama film ⓘ |
| industry | film industry ⓘ |
| knownFor |
producing Hollywood feature films
ⓘ
producing films ⓘ the basketball drama "Blue Chips" ⓘ |
| notableWork | Blue Chips ⓘ |
| occupation | film producer ⓘ |
| sport | basketball ⓘ |
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 V. Lester Description of subject: David V. Lester is a film producer best known for his work on major Hollywood features such as the basketball drama "Blue Chips."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.