David Wain
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David Wain is an American comedian, writer, director, and actor best known for co-creating the sketch comedy group The State and directing cult films like Wet Hot American Summer.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Wain canonical | 35 |
| writer David Wain | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8904777 — 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 Wain Context triple: [The State, member, David Wain]
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A.
Nicholas Stoller
Nicholas Stoller is a British-American filmmaker and screenwriter best known for directing and writing popular comedy films such as Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Neighbors.
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B.
David Kaufman
David Kaufman is an American actor best known for voicing Marty McFly in the animated Back to the Future series and for numerous other voice and live-action roles in film and television.
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C.
Judd Apatow
Judd Apatow is an American filmmaker, producer, and writer known for his influential work in modern comedy films and television series such as "The 40-Year-Old Virgin," "Knocked Up," and "Freaks and Geeks."
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D.
Jordan Vogt-Roberts
Jordan Vogt-Roberts is an American film director best known for helming the 2017 blockbuster monster movie "Kong: Skull Island."
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E.
Mark Waters
Mark Waters is an American film director best known for helming popular teen and fantasy comedies such as "Mean Girls" and "Freaky Friday."
- 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 Wain Target entity description: David Wain is an American comedian, writer, director, and actor best known for co-creating the sketch comedy group The State and directing cult films like Wet Hot American Summer.
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A.
Nicholas Stoller
Nicholas Stoller is a British-American filmmaker and screenwriter best known for directing and writing popular comedy films such as Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Neighbors.
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B.
David Kaufman
David Kaufman is an American actor best known for voicing Marty McFly in the animated Back to the Future series and for numerous other voice and live-action roles in film and television.
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C.
Judd Apatow
Judd Apatow is an American filmmaker, producer, and writer known for his influential work in modern comedy films and television series such as "The 40-Year-Old Virgin," "Knocked Up," and "Freaks and Geeks."
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D.
Jordan Vogt-Roberts
Jordan Vogt-Roberts is an American film director best known for helming the 2017 blockbuster monster movie "Kong: Skull Island."
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E.
Mark Waters
Mark Waters is an American film director best known for helming popular teen and fantasy comedies such as "Mean Girls" and "Freaky Friday."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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 Wain Description of subject: David Wain is an American comedian, writer, director, and actor best known for co-creating the sketch comedy group The State and directing cult films like Wet Hot American Summer.
Referenced by (36)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
The State (sketch comedy troupe)
subject linked to:
The State (sketch comedy troupe)
subject linked to:
Stella (comedy trio)
linked to: David Wain
subject linked to:
Ben in Wet Hot American Summer