David Cross
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David Cross is an English violinist and keyboardist best known for his work in the early 1970s progressive rock band King Crimson.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Cross canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8691585 — 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 Cross Context triple: [King Crimson, member, David Cross]
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A.
David Cross
David Cross is an American comedian and actor known for his stand-up work, his role in the sketch series "Mr. Show," and his portrayal of Tobias Fünke in the television sitcom "Arrested Development."
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B.
Paul F. Tompkins
Paul F. Tompkins is an American comedian, actor, and writer known for his stand-up, podcast appearances, and character roles in television and film.
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C.
Jeff Garlin
Jeff Garlin is an American comedian and actor best known for his role as Jeff Greene on the HBO series "Curb Your Enthusiasm" and for his work in film and voice acting.
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Adam DeVine
Adam DeVine is an American actor, comedian, and writer best known for co-creating and starring in the sitcom "Workaholics" and for his roles in the "Pitch Perfect" film series and various comedy television shows.
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E.
Patton Oswalt
Patton Oswalt is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer known for his sharp observational humor and roles in film and television, including voicing Remy in Pixar's "Ratatouille."
- 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 Cross Target entity description: David Cross is an English violinist and keyboardist best known for his work in the early 1970s progressive rock band King Crimson.
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A.
David Cross
David Cross is an American comedian and actor known for his stand-up work, his role in the sketch series "Mr. Show," and his portrayal of Tobias Fünke in the television sitcom "Arrested Development."
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B.
Paul F. Tompkins
Paul F. Tompkins is an American comedian, actor, and writer known for his stand-up, podcast appearances, and character roles in television and film.
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C.
Jeff Garlin
Jeff Garlin is an American comedian and actor best known for his role as Jeff Greene on the HBO series "Curb Your Enthusiasm" and for his work in film and voice acting.
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D.
Adam DeVine
Adam DeVine is an American actor, comedian, and writer best known for co-creating and starring in the sitcom "Workaholics" and for his roles in the "Pitch Perfect" film series and various comedy television shows.
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E.
Patton Oswalt
Patton Oswalt is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer known for his sharp observational humor and roles in film and television, including voicing Remy in Pixar's "Ratatouille."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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 Cross Description of subject: David Cross is an English violinist and keyboardist best known for his work in the early 1970s progressive rock band King Crimson.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.