David Powell
E407961
David Powell was a Scottish-born stage and silent film actor prominent in early 20th-century cinema.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Powell canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4029938 — 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 Powell Context triple: [The Green Goddess (1923 film), starring, David Powell]
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A.
Keith Powell
Keith Powell is an American actor best known for playing the role of James "Toofer" Spurlock on the television sitcom 30 Rock.
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B.
Eric Powell
Eric Powell is a supporting character in the film "Julie & Julia," portrayed as Julie Powell’s husband who provides emotional support and grounding amid her ambitious cooking project.
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C.
Nik Powell
Nik Powell was a British entrepreneur and film producer best known for co-founding Virgin Records and later leading the National Film and Television School.
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D.
Geoffrey Owens
Geoffrey Owens is an American actor best known for his role as Elvin Tibideaux on the long-running sitcom "The Cosby Show."
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E.
Keith Powers
Keith Powers is an American actor known for his roles in films and television series such as "The Tomorrow War," "Straight Outta Compton," and "The New Edition Story."
- 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 Powell Target entity description: David Powell was a Scottish-born stage and silent film actor prominent in early 20th-century cinema.
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A.
Keith Powell
Keith Powell is an American actor best known for playing the role of James "Toofer" Spurlock on the television sitcom 30 Rock.
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B.
Eric Powell
Eric Powell is a supporting character in the film "Julie & Julia," portrayed as Julie Powell’s husband who provides emotional support and grounding amid her ambitious cooking project.
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C.
Nik Powell
Nik Powell was a British entrepreneur and film producer best known for co-founding Virgin Records and later leading the National Film and Television School.
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D.
Geoffrey Owens
Geoffrey Owens is an American actor best known for his role as Elvin Tibideaux on the long-running sitcom "The Cosby Show."
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E.
Keith Powers
Keith Powers is an American actor known for his roles in films and television series such as "The Tomorrow War," "Straight Outta Compton," and "The New Edition Story."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
ⓘ
film actor ⓘ person ⓘ silent film actor ⓘ stage actor ⓘ |
| activeIn |
silent cinema
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theatre ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| era | early 20th century ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
cinema
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performing arts ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| genre | drama films ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mediumOfPerformance |
silent film
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stage ⓘ |
| nationality | Scottish ⓘ |
| notability | prominent actor of the silent film era ⓘ |
| notableFor | work in early 20th-century cinema ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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film actor ⓘ silent film actor ⓘ stage actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Scotland ⓘ |
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 Powell Description of subject: David Powell was a Scottish-born stage and silent film actor prominent in early 20th-century cinema.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.