David Strickland
E941509
David Strickland was an American actor best known for his role on the NBC sitcom "Suddenly Susan" before his untimely death in 1999.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Strickland canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11665207 — 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 Strickland Context triple: [Strickland, hasNotableBearer, David Strickland]
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A.
Steven Stroud
Steven Stroud is an American illustrator and cover artist known for his work on numerous science fiction and fantasy book covers.
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B.
Richard Strickland
Richard Strickland is the primary antagonist in Guillermo del Toro's film "The Shape of Water," a cruel government agent whose brutality and obsession drive much of the story's conflict.
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C.
Michael Gillane
Michael Gillane is a central young male character in the Irish nationalist play "Cathleen ni Houlihan," whose impending marriage and choices symbolize the tension between personal happiness and patriotic sacrifice.
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D.
Denis Preston
Denis Preston was a pioneering British record producer known for his influential work in jazz, skiffle, and early British blues recordings.
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E.
Stuart Dunmeyer
Stuart Dunmeyer is a wealthy, charming businessman who becomes the love interest of Miranda Hillard in the 1993 comedy film "Mrs. Doubtfire."
- 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 Strickland Target entity description: David Strickland was an American actor best known for his role on the NBC sitcom "Suddenly Susan" before his untimely death in 1999.
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A.
Steven Stroud
Steven Stroud is an American illustrator and cover artist known for his work on numerous science fiction and fantasy book covers.
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B.
Richard Strickland
Richard Strickland is the primary antagonist in Guillermo del Toro's film "The Shape of Water," a cruel government agent whose brutality and obsession drive much of the story's conflict.
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C.
Michael Gillane
Michael Gillane is a central young male character in the Irish nationalist play "Cathleen ni Houlihan," whose impending marriage and choices symbolize the tension between personal happiness and patriotic sacrifice.
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D.
Denis Preston
Denis Preston was a pioneering British record producer known for his influential work in jazz, skiffle, and early British blues recordings.
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E.
Stuart Dunmeyer
Stuart Dunmeyer is a wealthy, charming businessman who becomes the love interest of Miranda Hillard in the 1993 comedy film "Mrs. Doubtfire."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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human ⓘ |
| activeIn | 1990s ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | suicide ⓘ |
| citizenship | American ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1999 ⓘ |
| employer | NBC ⓘ |
| familyName | Strickland ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | acting ⓘ |
| genre | television sitcom ⓘ |
| givenName | David ⓘ |
| hasEmployer | NBC ⓘ |
| knownFor | role on the NBC sitcom "Suddenly Susan" ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mediumOfPerformance | television ⓘ |
| name | David Strickland ⓘ |
| notableRole | Todd Stites on "Suddenly Susan" ⓘ |
| notableWork | Suddenly Susan ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| partOf | cast of "Suddenly Susan" ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
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linked to:
Las Vegas, Nevada
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| residence |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation | Los Angeles, California, United States ⓘ |
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 Strickland Description of subject: David Strickland was an American actor best known for his role on the NBC sitcom "Suddenly Susan" before his untimely death in 1999.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.