David Margulies
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David Margulies was an American character actor known for his roles in films such as Ghostbusters and numerous appearances on stage and television.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Margulies canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10493729 — 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 Margulies Context triple: [Dressed to Kill, hasCastMember, David Margulies]
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A.
Paul Margulies
Paul Margulies was an American advertising executive and writer, best known as the father of actress Julianna Margulies.
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B.
Ben Margulies
Ben Margulies is an American songwriter and producer best known for co-writing several early hits with Mariah Carey, including her debut single "Vision of Love."
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C.
Ben Feldman
Ben Feldman is an American actor known for his roles in television series such as Drop Dead Diva, Mad Men, and Superstore.
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D.
Tom Schulman
Tom Schulman is an American screenwriter best known for writing the Academy Award–winning screenplay for the film "Dead Poets Society."
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E.
Arye Gross
Arye Gross is an American actor known for his work in film, television, and theater, including roles in projects like the film "For the Boys" and the TV series "Ellen."
- 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 Margulies Target entity description: David Margulies was an American character actor known for his roles in films such as Ghostbusters and numerous appearances on stage and television.
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A.
Paul Margulies
Paul Margulies was an American advertising executive and writer, best known as the father of actress Julianna Margulies.
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B.
Ben Margulies
Ben Margulies is an American songwriter and producer best known for co-writing several early hits with Mariah Carey, including her debut single "Vision of Love."
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C.
Ben Feldman
Ben Feldman is an American actor known for his roles in television series such as Drop Dead Diva, Mad Men, and Superstore.
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D.
Tom Schulman
Tom Schulman is an American screenwriter best known for writing the Academy Award–winning screenplay for the film "Dead Poets Society."
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E.
Arye Gross
Arye Gross is an American actor known for his work in film, television, and theater, including roles in projects like the film "For the Boys" and the TV series "Ellen."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actor
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human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | cancer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1937-02-19 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2016-01-11 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jewish American ⓘ |
| familyName | Margulies NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | David NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | David Margulies NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableRole |
Mayor Lenny Clotch in Ghostbusters
NERFINISHED
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Mayor Lenny Clotch in Ghostbusters II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
9½ Weeks
NERFINISHED
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A Most Violent Year NERFINISHED ⓘ Ace Ventura: Pet Detective NERFINISHED ⓘ All the President's Men NERFINISHED ⓘ Chicago Hope NERFINISHED ⓘ Dressed to Kill NERFINISHED ⓘ Ghostbusters NERFINISHED ⓘ Ghostbusters II NERFINISHED ⓘ Ishtar NERFINISHED ⓘ Last Embrace NERFINISHED ⓘ Law & Order NERFINISHED ⓘ Law & Order: Criminal Intent NERFINISHED ⓘ Law & Order: Special Victims Unit NERFINISHED ⓘ Northern Exposure NERFINISHED ⓘ The Day After Tomorrow NERFINISHED ⓘ The Equalizer NERFINISHED ⓘ The Front NERFINISHED ⓘ The Gambler NERFINISHED ⓘ The Girl in the Park NERFINISHED ⓘ The Good Wife NERFINISHED ⓘ The Other Guys NERFINISHED ⓘ The Sopranos NERFINISHED ⓘ The Sopranos episode "The Happy Wanderer" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Brooklyn
NERFINISHED
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New York NERFINISHED ⓘ New York City ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Manhattan
NERFINISHED
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New York NERFINISHED ⓘ New York City ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
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 Margulies Description of subject: David Margulies was an American character actor known for his roles in films such as Ghostbusters and numerous appearances on stage and television.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.