David Semel
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David Semel is an American television director and producer known for his work on numerous high-profile series, including serving as an executive producer on the adaptation of "The Man in the High Castle."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Semel canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2651356 — 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 Semel Context triple: [The Man in the High Castle, executiveProducer, David Semel]
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A.
Henry Samueli
Henry Samueli is an American engineer, technology entrepreneur, and philanthropist best known as the co-founder of Broadcom Corporation and a prominent NHL team owner.
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B.
Thomas Siebel
Thomas Siebel is an American technology entrepreneur best known as the founder of Siebel Systems and later the cloud computing company C3.ai.
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C.
John K. Minasian
John K. Minasian was an American structural engineer best known for helping design Seattle’s iconic Space Needle.
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D.
Irwin M. Jacobs
Irwin M. Jacobs is an American electrical engineer, co-founder and former CEO of Qualcomm, known for his pioneering contributions to digital wireless communications.
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E.
Theodore N. Lerner
Theodore N. Lerner was an American real estate developer and principal owner of the Washington Nationals Major League Baseball team.
- 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 Semel Target entity description: David Semel is an American television director and producer known for his work on numerous high-profile series, including serving as an executive producer on the adaptation of "The Man in the High Castle."
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A.
Henry Samueli
Henry Samueli is an American engineer, technology entrepreneur, and philanthropist best known as the co-founder of Broadcom Corporation and a prominent NHL team owner.
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B.
Thomas Siebel
Thomas Siebel is an American technology entrepreneur best known as the founder of Siebel Systems and later the cloud computing company C3.ai.
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C.
John K. Minasian
John K. Minasian was an American structural engineer best known for helping design Seattle’s iconic Space Needle.
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D.
Irwin M. Jacobs
Irwin M. Jacobs is an American electrical engineer, co-founder and former CEO of Qualcomm, known for his pioneering contributions to digital wireless communications.
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E.
Theodore N. Lerner
Theodore N. Lerner was an American real estate developer and principal owner of the Washington Nationals Major League Baseball team.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (11)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American person
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television director ⓘ television producer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
television directing
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television production ⓘ |
| industry | television ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Man in the High Castle ⓘ |
| occupation |
television director
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television producer ⓘ |
| roleInWork | executive producer of The Man in the High Castle ⓘ |
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 Semel Description of subject: David Semel is an American television director and producer known for his work on numerous high-profile series, including serving as an executive producer on the adaptation of "The Man in the High Castle."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
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