David Drumlin
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David Drumlin is a high-ranking government science advisor and political figure in the science fiction film "Contact," often serving as a skeptical foil to the protagonist Ellie Arroway.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Drumlin canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T56070 — 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 Drumlin Context triple: [Contact, notableCharacter, David Drumlin]
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A.
James Honaker
James Honaker is a political scientist and statistician known for his work on methods for handling missing data and for coauthoring influential research with Gary King.
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B.
James Rogers
James Rogers is a common personal name shared by numerous individuals across various fields, including politics, academia, sports, and the arts.
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C.
John Gilroy
John Gilroy is a film editor known for his work on major Hollywood productions, including the science-fiction monster film "Pacific Rim."
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D.
Alan M. Garber
Alan M. Garber is an American physician-economist and academic leader known for his work in health policy and for serving in top administrative roles at Harvard University.
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E.
Jonathan Corwin
Jonathan Corwin was a 17th-century Massachusetts magistrate best known as one of the judges who presided over the Salem witch trials.
- 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 Drumlin Target entity description: David Drumlin is a high-ranking government science advisor and political figure in the science fiction film "Contact," often serving as a skeptical foil to the protagonist Ellie Arroway.
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A.
James Honaker
James Honaker is a political scientist and statistician known for his work on methods for handling missing data and for coauthoring influential research with Gary King.
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B.
James Rogers
James Rogers is a common personal name shared by numerous individuals across various fields, including politics, academia, sports, and the arts.
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C.
John Gilroy
John Gilroy is a film editor known for his work on major Hollywood productions, including the science-fiction monster film "Pacific Rim."
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D.
Alan M. Garber
Alan M. Garber is an American physician-economist and academic leader known for his work in health policy and for serving in top administrative roles at Harvard University.
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E.
Jonathan Corwin
Jonathan Corwin was a 17th-century Massachusetts magistrate best known as one of the judges who presided over the Salem witch trials.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| adaptedBy | Robert Zemeckis ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Contact
ⓘ
Contact (1997 film) ⓘ
surface form:
Contact (film adaptation of Carl Sagan's novel)
|
| associatedWith |
Ellie Arroway
ⓘ
SETI ⓘ
surface form:
SETI program
Vega signal project ⓘ |
| attitudeToward | skeptical of Ellie Arroway's SETI research ⓘ |
| basedOn | character from the novel "Contact" by Carl Sagan ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
ambitious
ⓘ
politically pragmatic ⓘ skeptical of extraterrestrial contact claims ⓘ |
| conflictWith | Ellie Arroway ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| createdBy | Carl Sagan ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Contact (1997 film) ⓘ |
| genre | science fiction ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
antagonist
ⓘ
skeptical foil to Ellie Arroway ⓘ |
| occupation |
government official
ⓘ
science advisor ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Tom Skerritt ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
high-ranking government science advisor
ⓘ
presidential science advisor ⓘ |
| roleInPlot |
opposes Ellie Arroway's independent research
ⓘ
seeks political control over the response to the alien signal ⓘ |
| workLocation | United States government ⓘ |
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 Drumlin Description of subject: David Drumlin is a high-ranking government science advisor and political figure in the science fiction film "Contact," often serving as a skeptical foil to the protagonist Ellie Arroway.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.