David Pokitillow
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David Pokitillow is an actor known for his role in the film "Shadows."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Pokitillow canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11202449 — 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 Pokitillow Context triple: [Shadows, castMember, David Pokitillow]
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A.
Martin Porlock
Martin Porlock is a pseudonym used by British crime and mystery novelist Philip MacDonald for some of his works.
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B.
Adam Pisoni
Adam Pisoni is an American entrepreneur and technology executive best known as the co-founder and former CTO of the enterprise social networking company Yammer.
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C.
Tom Kirdahy
Tom Kirdahy is an American Tony Award–winning theater producer and former public interest lawyer, known for his work on major Broadway productions and for being the widower of playwright Terrence McNally.
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D.
John Zaccaro
John Zaccaro is an American real estate developer best known as the husband of the late U.S. Congresswoman and 1984 vice-presidential nominee Geraldine Ferraro.
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E.
Jonathan Pytko
Jonathan Pytko is a cinematographer best known for his work on the Pixar animated film "Turning Red."
- 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 Pokitillow Target entity description: David Pokitillow is an actor known for his role in the film "Shadows."
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A.
Martin Porlock
Martin Porlock is a pseudonym used by British crime and mystery novelist Philip MacDonald for some of his works.
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B.
Adam Pisoni
Adam Pisoni is an American entrepreneur and technology executive best known as the co-founder and former CTO of the enterprise social networking company Yammer.
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C.
Tom Kirdahy
Tom Kirdahy is an American Tony Award–winning theater producer and former public interest lawyer, known for his work on major Broadway productions and for being the widower of playwright Terrence McNally.
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D.
John Zaccaro
John Zaccaro is an American real estate developer best known as the husband of the late U.S. Congresswoman and 1984 vice-presidential nominee Geraldine Ferraro.
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E.
Jonathan Pytko
Jonathan Pytko is a cinematographer best known for his work on the Pixar animated film "Turning Red."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (5)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | actor ⓘ |
| genre | film acting ⓘ |
| knownFor | film Shadows ⓘ |
| notableWork | Shadows NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
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 Pokitillow Description of subject: David Pokitillow is an actor known for his role in the film "Shadows."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.