David Sherwin
E930356
David Sherwin was a British screenwriter best known for co-writing the influential 1968 film "If...." directed by Lindsay Anderson.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Sherwin canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11299885 — 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 Sherwin Context triple: [If...., screenwriter, David Sherwin]
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A.
Douglas Meyer
Douglas Meyer is a theatrical producer best known for his work on the Broadway musical adaptation of "The Wedding Singer."
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B.
Stephen F. Martin
Stephen F. Martin is an American organic chemist renowned for his influential research in synthetic methodology and complex molecule synthesis.
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C.
Richard Jemmons
Richard Jemmons is a fictional, fast-talking political strategist and narrator in Joe Klein’s novel (and its film adaptation) "Primary Colors," loosely inspired by real-life consultant James Carville.
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D.
Philip Bruns
Philip Bruns was an American character actor best known for his television and film roles in the 1970s and 1980s, including his work on the satirical soap opera "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman."
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E.
David Soward
David Soward is an entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the cosmetics brand Urban Decay, which helped popularize edgy, alternative makeup in the 1990s.
- 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 Sherwin Target entity description: David Sherwin was a British screenwriter best known for co-writing the influential 1968 film "If...." directed by Lindsay Anderson.
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A.
Douglas Meyer
Douglas Meyer is a theatrical producer best known for his work on the Broadway musical adaptation of "The Wedding Singer."
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B.
Stephen F. Martin
Stephen F. Martin is an American organic chemist renowned for his influential research in synthetic methodology and complex molecule synthesis.
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C.
Richard Jemmons
Richard Jemmons is a fictional, fast-talking political strategist and narrator in Joe Klein’s novel (and its film adaptation) "Primary Colors," loosely inspired by real-life consultant James Carville.
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D.
Philip Bruns
Philip Bruns was an American character actor best known for his television and film roles in the 1970s and 1980s, including his work on the satirical soap opera "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman."
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E.
David Soward
David Soward is an entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the cosmetics brand Urban Decay, which helped popularize edgy, alternative makeup in the 1990s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British person
ⓘ
film ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Palme d'Or
ⓘ
linked to:
Palme d’Or
|
| collaboratedWith | Lindsay Anderson ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfRelease | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| coWrote | If.... ⓘ |
| director | Lindsay Anderson ⓘ |
| festival | Cannes Film Festival ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | cinema ⓘ |
| genre |
drama film
ⓘ
film screenplay ⓘ satirical film ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn |
British cinema
ⓘ
linked to:
British film industry
|
| hasScreenwriter | David Sherwin ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
ⓘ
English ⓘ |
| name | David Sherwin ⓘ |
| notableFor | co-writing the film If.... ⓘ |
| notableWork | If.... ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
ⓘ
screenwriter ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1968 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | David Sherwin ⓘ |
| workLocation | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| yearOfAward | 1969 ⓘ |
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 Sherwin Description of subject: David Sherwin was a British screenwriter best known for co-writing the influential 1968 film "If...." directed by Lindsay Anderson.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Mick Travis in If....
subject linked to:
Mick Travis in If....
subject linked to:
Mick Travis in O Lucky Man!
subject linked to:
David Sherwin
subject linked to:
David Sherwin