David Starr
E201453
fictional character
literary character
novel
protagonist
science fiction novel series
space adventurer
David Starr is the real name of the fictional space adventurer known as Lucky Starr, the hero of Isaac Asimov’s science fiction juvenile novel series.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Starr canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1800494 — 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 Starr Context triple: [Lucky Starr series, protagonistRealName, David Starr]
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A.
Frank Marshall Davis
Frank Marshall Davis was an African American poet, journalist, and political activist whose work explored race, class, and social justice in mid-20th-century America.
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B.
William Irwin
William Irwin was a 19th-century American politician who served as Governor of California from 1875 to 1880.
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C.
George Storrs
George Storrs was a 19th-century American Christian preacher and writer known for his advocacy of conditional immortality and nontrinitarian views, which significantly shaped early Adventist and Bible Student theology.
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D.
Frederick H. Meyer
Frederick H. Meyer was an American architect active in the early 20th century, known for designing prominent public and commercial buildings in San Francisco.
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E.
Horace Newton Allen
Horace Newton Allen was an American medical missionary and diplomat who played a key role in introducing Western medicine to Korea in the late 19th century.
- 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 Starr Target entity description: David Starr is the real name of the fictional space adventurer known as Lucky Starr, the hero of Isaac Asimov’s science fiction juvenile novel series.
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A.
Frank Marshall Davis
Frank Marshall Davis was an African American poet, journalist, and political activist whose work explored race, class, and social justice in mid-20th-century America.
-
B.
William Irwin
William Irwin was a 19th-century American politician who served as Governor of California from 1875 to 1880.
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C.
George Storrs
George Storrs was a 19th-century American Christian preacher and writer known for his advocacy of conditional immortality and nontrinitarian views, which significantly shaped early Adventist and Bible Student theology.
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D.
Frederick H. Meyer
Frederick H. Meyer was an American architect active in the early 20th century, known for designing prominent public and commercial buildings in San Francisco.
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E.
Horace Newton Allen
Horace Newton Allen was an American medical missionary and diplomat who played a key role in introducing Western medicine to Korea in the late 19th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
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 Starr Description of subject: David Starr is the real name of the fictional space adventurer known as Lucky Starr, the hero of Isaac Asimov’s science fiction juvenile novel series.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Lucky Starr
subject surface form:
Lucky Starr series