Craig Silverstein
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Craig Silverstein is an American television writer and producer best known for creating and showrunning series such as the Revolutionary War drama "Turn: Washington's Spies" and the action thriller "Nikita."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Craig Silverstein canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2651439 — 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: Craig Silverstein Context triple: [Turn: Washington's Spies, creator, Craig Silverstein]
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A.
Craig Greenberg
Craig Greenberg is an American businessman, attorney, and Democratic politician serving as the mayor of Louisville, Kentucky.
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B.
Steve Goodrich
Steve Goodrich is a former American basketball player best known as a standout center for Princeton University in the late 1990s, where he helped lead the Tigers to national prominence.
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C.
Steven Cohl
Steven Cohl is the son of Canadian film promoter and Toronto International Film Festival co-founder Dusty Cohl.
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D.
Robert Krasny
Robert Krasny is an American applied mathematician known for his work in fluid dynamics and vortex methods.
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E.
Paul Feldman
Paul Feldman is a computer scientist and cryptographer known for his work on digital signatures and other foundational topics in modern cryptography.
- 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: Craig Silverstein Target entity description: Craig Silverstein is an American television writer and producer best known for creating and showrunning series such as the Revolutionary War drama "Turn: Washington's Spies" and the action thriller "Nikita."
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A.
Craig Greenberg
Craig Greenberg is an American businessman, attorney, and Democratic politician serving as the mayor of Louisville, Kentucky.
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B.
Steve Goodrich
Steve Goodrich is a former American basketball player best known as a standout center for Princeton University in the late 1990s, where he helped lead the Tigers to national prominence.
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C.
Steven Cohl
Steven Cohl is the son of Canadian film promoter and Toronto International Film Festival co-founder Dusty Cohl.
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D.
Robert Krasny
Robert Krasny is an American applied mathematician known for his work in fluid dynamics and vortex methods.
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E.
Paul Feldman
Paul Feldman is a computer scientist and cryptographer known for his work on digital signatures and other foundational topics in modern cryptography.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
person
ⓘ
screenwriter ⓘ television producer ⓘ television writer ⓘ |
| basedInIndustry | television ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| created |
Nikita
ⓘ
surface form:
"Nikita"
Turn: Washington's Spies ⓘ
surface form:
"Turn: Washington's Spies"
|
| genre |
action thriller television
ⓘ
historical drama television ⓘ |
| knownFor |
creating the television series "Nikita"
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creating the television series "Turn: Washington's Spies" ⓘ showrunning the television series "Nikita" ⓘ showrunning the television series "Turn: Washington's Spies" ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Nikita
ⓘ
surface form:
"Nikita"
Turn: Washington's Spies ⓘ
surface form:
"Turn: Washington's Spies"
|
| occupation |
screenwriter
ⓘ
television producer ⓘ television writer ⓘ |
| showrunnerOf |
Nikita
ⓘ
surface form:
"Nikita"
Turn: Washington's Spies ⓘ
surface form:
"Turn: Washington's Spies"
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| wroteFor |
Nikita
ⓘ
surface form:
"Nikita"
Turn: Washington's Spies ⓘ
surface form:
"Turn: Washington's Spies"
|
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: Craig Silverstein Description of subject: Craig Silverstein is an American television writer and producer best known for creating and showrunning series such as the Revolutionary War drama "Turn: Washington's Spies" and the action thriller "Nikita."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.