David Fisher
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David Fisher is a central character in the television drama "Six Feet Under," known as a tightly wound, closeted gay funeral director struggling with family expectations and his own identity.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Fisher canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4505002 — 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 Fisher Context triple: [Six Feet Under, hasMainCharacter, David Fisher]
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A.
David Fisher
David Fisher was a British television writer best known for his work on the science fiction series Doctor Who.
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B.
Bob Fisher
Bob Fisher is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the hit comedy film "Wedding Crashers."
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C.
Jonathan Fisk
Jonathan Fisk was an early 19th-century American politician who served as a U.S. Representative from New York.
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D.
Allan Kayser
Allan Kayser is an American actor best known for playing Bubba Higgins on the sitcom "Mama’s Family."
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E.
Douglas Wick
Douglas Wick is an American film producer known for acclaimed movies such as "Gladiator," "Working Girl," and "Memoirs of a Geisha."
- 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 Fisher Target entity description: David Fisher is a central character in the television drama "Six Feet Under," known as a tightly wound, closeted gay funeral director struggling with family expectations and his own identity.
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A.
David Fisher
David Fisher was a British television writer best known for his work on the science fiction series Doctor Who.
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B.
Bob Fisher
Bob Fisher is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the hit comedy film "Wedding Crashers."
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C.
Jonathan Fisk
Jonathan Fisk was an early 19th-century American politician who served as a U.S. Representative from New York.
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D.
Allan Kayser
Allan Kayser is an American actor best known for playing Bubba Higgins on the sitcom "Mama’s Family."
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E.
Douglas Wick
Douglas Wick is an American film producer known for acclaimed movies such as "Gladiator," "Working Girl," and "Memoirs of a Geisha."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Six Feet Under NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creator | Alan Ball NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Fisher NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| finalAppearance | Six Feet Under, Season 5 Episode 12 ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Six Feet Under, Season 1 Episode 1 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | David NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMajorStoryArc |
co-managing family funeral business
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coming out as gay ⓘ kidnapping and trauma recovery ⓘ long-term relationship with Keith Charles ⓘ |
| hasRomanticRelationshipWith | Keith Charles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| laterWorksAt | Fisher & Diaz Funeral Home NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| narrativeTheme |
family expectations
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religious conflict ⓘ struggle with sexual identity ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| networkOfShow | HBO NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | funeral director ⓘ |
| partOf | Fisher family (Six Feet Under) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
anxious
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responsible ⓘ tightly wound ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Michael C. Hall NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primarySetting | Los Angeles funeral home ⓘ |
| relative |
Claire Fisher
NERFINISHED
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Nate Fisher NERFINISHED ⓘ Nathaniel Fisher Sr. NERFINISHED ⓘ Ruth Fisher NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| residence | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| settingOfLifeEvents | Los Angeles, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexualOrientation | gay ⓘ |
| worksAt | Fisher & Sons Funeral Home NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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 Fisher Description of subject: David Fisher is a central character in the television drama "Six Feet Under," known as a tightly wound, closeted gay funeral director struggling with family expectations and his own identity.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.