David Iserson
E394249
David Iserson is an American television writer and screenwriter known for his work on series like "Saturday Night Live," "New Girl," and "Mad Men," as well as for authoring the young adult novel "Firecracker."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Iserson canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3820085 — 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 Iserson Context triple: [The Spy Who Dumped Me, screenwriter, David Iserson]
-
A.
Tim Herlihy
Tim Herlihy is an American screenwriter and producer best known for his long-running collaboration with Adam Sandler on numerous comedy films.
-
B.
Michael Rogers
Michael Rogers is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple individuals across fields such as politics, sports, and the arts, rather than referring to one singular widely recognized figure.
-
C.
David Scearce
David Scearce is a Canadian screenwriter best known for adapting Christopher Isherwood’s novel into the acclaimed film "A Single Man."
-
D.
Ed Vargo
Ed Vargo was a prominent Major League Baseball umpire who worked in the National League for over two decades and officiated multiple World Series and All-Star Games.
-
E.
Jeff MacNelly
Jeff MacNelly was an American editorial cartoonist and creator of the comic strip "Shoe," renowned for his sharp political satire and three Pulitzer Prizes for Editorial Cartooning.
- 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 Iserson Target entity description: David Iserson is an American television writer and screenwriter known for his work on series like "Saturday Night Live," "New Girl," and "Mad Men," as well as for authoring the young adult novel "Firecracker."
-
A.
Tim Herlihy
Tim Herlihy is an American screenwriter and producer best known for his long-running collaboration with Adam Sandler on numerous comedy films.
-
B.
Michael Rogers
Michael Rogers is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple individuals across fields such as politics, sports, and the arts, rather than referring to one singular widely recognized figure.
-
C.
David Scearce
David Scearce is a Canadian screenwriter best known for adapting Christopher Isherwood’s novel into the acclaimed film "A Single Man."
-
D.
Ed Vargo
Ed Vargo was a prominent Major League Baseball umpire who worked in the National League for over two decades and officiated multiple World Series and All-Star Games.
-
E.
Jeff MacNelly
Jeff MacNelly was an American editorial cartoonist and creator of the comic strip "Shoe," renowned for his sharp political satire and three Pulitzer Prizes for Editorial Cartooning.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
author of young adult fiction
ⓘ
novel ⓘ novelist ⓘ person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ television writer ⓘ |
| author | David Iserson self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| genre |
television comedy
ⓘ
television drama ⓘ young adult fiction ⓘ |
| hasWriter | David Iserson self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
authoring the novel Firecracker
ⓘ
writing for American television series ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Firecracker
ⓘ
Mad Men ⓘ New Girl ⓘ Saturday Night Live ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
ⓘ
novelist ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ television writer ⓘ |
| wroteForSeries |
Mad Men
ⓘ
New Girl ⓘ Saturday Night Live ⓘ |
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 Iserson Description of subject: David Iserson is an American television writer and screenwriter known for his work on series like "Saturday Night Live," "New Girl," and "Mad Men," as well as for authoring the young adult novel "Firecracker."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Firecracker
subject surface form:
Saturday Night Live