David Sheff
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David Sheff is an American journalist and author best known for his memoir "Beautiful Boy," which chronicles his son's struggle with methamphetamine addiction.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Sheff canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8450977 — 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 Sheff Context triple: [Beautiful Boy, basedOnAuthor, David Sheff]
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A.
Matthew Salinger
Matthew Salinger is an American actor and producer, known for his role in the 1990 film "Captain America" and as the son and literary executor of author J. D. Salinger.
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B.
Nick Flynn
Nick Flynn is an American poet, memoirist, and playwright best known for his autobiographical works exploring family, addiction, and identity, including the memoir that inspired the film "Being Flynn."
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C.
Sarah Neufeld
Sarah Neufeld is a Canadian violinist and composer best known for her work with the indie rock band Arcade Fire and her experimental solo and collaborative projects.
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D.
Jonathan Unger
Jonathan Unger is a scholar known for his research and publications on contemporary Chinese society and politics.
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E.
Eyal Waldman
Eyal Waldman is an Israeli entrepreneur and engineer best known as the co-founder and longtime CEO of high-performance networking company Mellanox Technologies.
- 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 Sheff Target entity description: David Sheff is an American journalist and author best known for his memoir "Beautiful Boy," which chronicles his son's struggle with methamphetamine addiction.
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A.
Matthew Salinger
Matthew Salinger is an American actor and producer, known for his role in the 1990 film "Captain America" and as the son and literary executor of author J. D. Salinger.
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B.
Nick Flynn
Nick Flynn is an American poet, memoirist, and playwright best known for his autobiographical works exploring family, addiction, and identity, including the memoir that inspired the film "Being Flynn."
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C.
Sarah Neufeld
Sarah Neufeld is a Canadian violinist and composer best known for her work with the indie rock band Arcade Fire and her experimental solo and collaborative projects.
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D.
Jonathan Unger
Jonathan Unger is a scholar known for his research and publications on contemporary Chinese society and politics.
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E.
Eyal Waldman
Eyal Waldman is an Israeli entrepreneur and engineer best known as the co-founder and longtime CEO of high-performance networking company Mellanox Technologies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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film ⓘ human ⓘ journalist ⓘ non-fiction writer ⓘ |
| author |
David Sheff
NERFINISHED
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David Sheff NERFINISHED ⓘ David Sheff NERFINISHED ⓘ David Sheff NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Beautiful Boy
NERFINISHED
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Tweak NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of California, Berkeley ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
addiction writing
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journalism ⓘ memoir writing ⓘ |
| genre |
memoir
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memoir ⓘ non-fiction ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation | Beautiful Boy (2018 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChild | Nic Sheff NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasWrittenFor |
Outside
NERFINISHED
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Playboy NERFINISHED ⓘ Rolling Stone NERFINISHED ⓘ The New York Times NERFINISHED ⓘ The New York Times Magazine NERFINISHED ⓘ Wired NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
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English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
John Lennon
NERFINISHED
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Nintendo NERFINISHED ⓘ Yoko Ono NERFINISHED ⓘ addiction treatment ⓘ father–son relationship ⓘ methamphetamine addiction ⓘ |
| notableFor | writing about his son's methamphetamine addiction ⓘ |
| notableWork |
All We Are Saying: The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Beautiful Boy NERFINISHED ⓘ Clean NERFINISHED ⓘ Clean: Overcoming Addiction and Ending America’s Greatest Tragedy NERFINISHED ⓘ Game Over: How Nintendo Zapped an American Industry, Captured Your Dollars, and Enslaved Your Children NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
ⓘ
journalist ⓘ |
| spouse | Karen Barbour NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subjectOf | Beautiful Boy (2018 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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 Sheff Description of subject: David Sheff is an American journalist and author best known for his memoir "Beautiful Boy," which chronicles his son's struggle with methamphetamine addiction.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.