David Ford
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David Ford was an American actor best known for his work in mid-20th-century film and television, including a leading role in the historical film "1776."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Ford canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5286581 — 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 Ford Context triple: [1776 (film), leadActor, David Ford]
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A.
David Ford
David Ford is a Northern Irish politician and former leader of the Alliance Party who became the first person to serve as Northern Ireland’s Minister of Justice after the devolution of policing and justice powers.
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B.
Jonathan Ford
Jonathan Ford is a senior naval officer and executive officer aboard the seaQuest DSV in the science fiction television series "seaQuest DSV."
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C.
Daniel Ford
Daniel Ford was a 19th-century American editor and publisher best known for shaping the influential family magazine The Youth's Companion.
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D.
Paul Ford
Paul Ford was an American character actor best known for his comedic roles in mid-20th-century film and television, including his portrayal of blustery authority figures.
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E.
David Hartnett
David Hartnett is a British civil servant best known for serving as the Permanent Secretary for Tax at HM Revenue and Customs, where he was the UK's top tax official.
- 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 Ford Target entity description: David Ford was an American actor best known for his work in mid-20th-century film and television, including a leading role in the historical film "1776."
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A.
David Ford
David Ford is a Northern Irish politician and former leader of the Alliance Party who became the first person to serve as Northern Ireland’s Minister of Justice after the devolution of policing and justice powers.
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B.
Jonathan Ford
Jonathan Ford is a senior naval officer and executive officer aboard the seaQuest DSV in the science fiction television series "seaQuest DSV."
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C.
Daniel Ford
Daniel Ford was a 19th-century American editor and publisher best known for shaping the influential family magazine The Youth's Companion.
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D.
Paul Ford
Paul Ford was an American character actor best known for his comedic roles in mid-20th-century film and television, including his portrayal of blustery authority figures.
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E.
David Hartnett
David Hartnett is a British civil servant best known for serving as the Permanent Secretary for Tax at HM Revenue and Customs, where he was the UK's top tax official.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (11)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | historical film ⓘ |
| medium |
film
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television ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork | 1776 ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| workPeriod | mid-20th century ⓘ |
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 Ford Description of subject: David Ford was an American actor best known for his work in mid-20th-century film and television, including a leading role in the historical film "1776."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.