Dana Adam Shapiro
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Dana Adam Shapiro is an American filmmaker and writer best known for co-directing the Oscar-nominated documentary "Murderball" and directing the feature film "Monogamy."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dana Adam Shapiro canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9735634 — 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: Dana Adam Shapiro Context triple: [Murderball, director, Dana Adam Shapiro]
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A.
Andrew Lippman
Andrew Lippman is an American media technology researcher and longtime MIT Media Lab professor known for his pioneering work in digital communication and interactive media.
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B.
Douglas Abrams
Douglas Abrams is an American author, editor, and literary agent best known for co-authoring spiritually focused, conversational books with prominent religious leaders such as the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu.
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C.
Mark Blum
Mark Blum was an American actor known for his work in film, television, and theater, including notable roles in movies like "Desperately Seeking Susan" and "Crocodile Dundee."
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D.
Allen Shapiro
Allen Shapiro is an American entertainment executive and film producer known for his work on projects such as the Western film "The Quick and the Dead."
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E.
Sam Levenson
Sam Levenson was an American humorist, writer, and television host known for his warm, family-centered Jewish humor and popular books such as "Everything But Money."
- 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: Dana Adam Shapiro Target entity description: Dana Adam Shapiro is an American filmmaker and writer best known for co-directing the Oscar-nominated documentary "Murderball" and directing the feature film "Monogamy."
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A.
Andrew Lippman
Andrew Lippman is an American media technology researcher and longtime MIT Media Lab professor known for his pioneering work in digital communication and interactive media.
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B.
Douglas Abrams
Douglas Abrams is an American author, editor, and literary agent best known for co-authoring spiritually focused, conversational books with prominent religious leaders such as the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu.
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C.
Mark Blum
Mark Blum was an American actor known for his work in film, television, and theater, including notable roles in movies like "Desperately Seeking Susan" and "Crocodile Dundee."
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D.
Allen Shapiro
Allen Shapiro is an American entertainment executive and film producer known for his work on projects such as the Western film "The Quick and the Dead."
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E.
Sam Levenson
Sam Levenson was an American humorist, writer, and television host known for his warm, family-centered Jewish humor and popular books such as "Everything But Money."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
documentary film
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film director ⓘ non-fiction book ⓘ novel ⓘ novelist ⓘ person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| activeIn |
film industry
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publishing industry ⓘ |
| author |
Dana Adam Shapiro
NERFINISHED
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Dana Adam Shapiro NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedIn | United States of America ⓘ |
| coDirected | Murderball NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coDirector | Dana Adam Shapiro NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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United States of America ⓘ |
| directed | Monogamy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| director | Dana Adam Shapiro NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
documentary film
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drama film ⓘ independent film ⓘ literary fiction ⓘ sports documentary film ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nominatedFor |
Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature
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Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
co-directing the documentary film Murderball
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directing the feature film Monogamy ⓘ writing novels and non-fiction books ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Monogamy
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Murderball NERFINISHED ⓘ The Every Boy NERFINISHED ⓘ You Can Be Right (Or You Can Be Married) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
documentary filmmaker
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film director ⓘ novelist ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| subject |
Paralympic Games
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wheelchair rugby ⓘ |
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: Dana Adam Shapiro Description of subject: Dana Adam Shapiro is an American filmmaker and writer best known for co-directing the Oscar-nominated documentary "Murderball" and directing the feature film "Monogamy."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.