David Kirschner
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David Kirschner is an American film and television producer best known for creating the Child’s Play/Chucky franchise and producing popular genre films such as Hocus Pocus.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Kirschner canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3056259 — 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 Kirschner Context triple: [Hocus Pocus, producer, David Kirschner]
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A.
Henry Kolker
Henry Kolker was an American stage and film actor and director active in the early 20th century, known for his character roles in both silent and sound films.
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B.
Leon Feldhendler
Leon Feldhendler was a Polish Jewish resistance leader and Holocaust survivor best known for co-organizing the 1943 prisoner uprising at the Sobibor extermination camp.
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C.
Irving Brecher
Irving Brecher was an American screenwriter best known for his work on Marx Brothers comedies and classic Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
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D.
Benno Levin
Benno Levin is a mysterious, mentally unstable stalker and would-be assassin who obsessively pursues billionaire asset manager Eric Packer in Don DeLillo’s novel "Cosmopolis."
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E.
Michael Waldstein
Michael Waldstein is a Catholic theologian and scholar best known for his authoritative English translation and commentary on Pope John Paul II’s Theology of the Body.
- 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 Kirschner Target entity description: David Kirschner is an American film and television producer best known for creating the Child’s Play/Chucky franchise and producing popular genre films such as Hocus Pocus.
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A.
Henry Kolker
Henry Kolker was an American stage and film actor and director active in the early 20th century, known for his character roles in both silent and sound films.
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B.
Leon Feldhendler
Leon Feldhendler was a Polish Jewish resistance leader and Holocaust survivor best known for co-organizing the 1943 prisoner uprising at the Sobibor extermination camp.
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C.
Irving Brecher
Irving Brecher was an American screenwriter best known for his work on Marx Brothers comedies and classic Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
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D.
Benno Levin
Benno Levin is a mysterious, mentally unstable stalker and would-be assassin who obsessively pursues billionaire asset manager Eric Packer in Don DeLillo’s novel "Cosmopolis."
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E.
Michael Waldstein
Michael Waldstein is a Catholic theologian and scholar best known for his authoritative English translation and commentary on Pope John Paul II’s Theology of the Body.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film executive
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film producer ⓘ human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ television producer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| creatorOf |
Child's Play franchise
NERFINISHED
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Chucky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Kirschner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genreSpecialization |
family film
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fantasy film ⓘ horror film ⓘ |
| givenName | David NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| name | David Kirschner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
creating the Child's Play/Chucky franchise
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producing animated feature films ⓘ producing the film Hocus Pocus ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Bride of Chucky
NERFINISHED
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Child's Play NERFINISHED ⓘ Child's Play 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ Child's Play 3 NERFINISHED ⓘ Chucky (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ Cult of Chucky NERFINISHED ⓘ Curse of Chucky NERFINISHED ⓘ Seed of Chucky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
film executive
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film producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ television producer ⓘ |
| producerOf |
An American Tail
NERFINISHED
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An American Tail: Fievel Goes West NERFINISHED ⓘ Bride of Chucky NERFINISHED ⓘ Child's Play NERFINISHED ⓘ Child's Play 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ Child's Play 3 NERFINISHED ⓘ Chucky (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ Cult of Chucky NERFINISHED ⓘ Curious George NERFINISHED ⓘ Curse of Chucky NERFINISHED ⓘ Hocus Pocus NERFINISHED ⓘ Hocus Pocus 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ Miss Potter NERFINISHED ⓘ Seed of Chucky NERFINISHED ⓘ The Pagemaster NERFINISHED ⓘ Titan A.E. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Hollywood
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Los Angeles ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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 Kirschner Description of subject: David Kirschner is an American film and television producer best known for creating the Child’s Play/Chucky franchise and producing popular genre films such as Hocus Pocus.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Miss Potter