David Lee Henry
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David Lee Henry is an American screenwriter best known for his work on crime and action films in the 1980s, including the adaptation of Lawrence Block’s novel "8 Million Ways to Die."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Lee Henry canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10676951 — 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 Lee Henry Context triple: [8 Million Ways to Die, screenwriter, David Lee Henry]
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A.
Kristopher Lee Bryant
Kristopher Lee Bryant is an American professional baseball player, primarily a third baseman and outfielder, known for his All-Star seasons and key role in helping the Chicago Cubs win the 2016 World Series.
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B.
William Ryan
William Ryan is a marine geologist and oceanographer known for his influential work on seafloor spreading and the geological history of the Black Sea, including the "Noah's Flood" hypothesis.
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C.
William Ryan
William Ryan is a film producer best known for his work on the 1994 remake of "Miracle on 34th Street."
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D.
Michael Dalton
Michael Dalton is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple individuals across various professions, including sports, music, and academia.
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E.
Sean Douglas
Sean Douglas is an American songwriter and record producer known for co-writing hit pop songs for artists such as Demi Lovato, Jason Derulo, and Thomas Rhett.
- 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 Lee Henry Target entity description: David Lee Henry is an American screenwriter best known for his work on crime and action films in the 1980s, including the adaptation of Lawrence Block’s novel "8 Million Ways to Die."
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A.
Kristopher Lee Bryant
Kristopher Lee Bryant is an American professional baseball player, primarily a third baseman and outfielder, known for his All-Star seasons and key role in helping the Chicago Cubs win the 2016 World Series.
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B.
William Ryan
William Ryan is a marine geologist and oceanographer known for his influential work on seafloor spreading and the geological history of the Black Sea, including the "Noah's Flood" hypothesis.
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C.
William Ryan
William Ryan is a film producer best known for his work on the 1994 remake of "Miracle on 34th Street."
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D.
Michael Dalton
Michael Dalton is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple individuals across various professions, including sports, music, and academia.
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E.
Sean Douglas
Sean Douglas is an American songwriter and record producer known for co-writing hit pop songs for artists such as Demi Lovato, Jason Derulo, and Thomas Rhett.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (14)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
person
ⓘ
screenwriter ⓘ |
| activeInDecade | 1980s ⓘ |
| author | Lawrence Block NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | 8 Million Ways to Die (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnAdaptationOf | 8 Million Ways to Die (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| genre |
action film
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crime film ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | crime and action screenplays in the 1980s ⓘ |
| notableWork | 8 Million Ways to Die NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | screenwriter ⓘ |
| workedOn | 8 Million Ways to Die 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 Lee Henry Description of subject: David Lee Henry is an American screenwriter best known for his work on crime and action films in the 1980s, including the adaptation of Lawrence Block’s novel "8 Million Ways to Die."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.