David Zinc
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David Zinc is a disillusioned corporate lawyer who impulsively quits his high-pressure job and joins a small plaintiffs’ firm, becoming a central figure in John Grisham’s legal thriller "The Litigators."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Zinc canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10211306 — 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 Zinc Context triple: [The Litigators, mainCharacter, David Zinc]
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A.
David Sancious
David Sancious is an American keyboardist and guitarist best known as an original member of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band and for his work as a versatile session and solo artist.
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B.
Mike McGear
Mike McGear is a British musician, photographer, and comedian best known as Paul McCartney’s younger brother and a member of the satirical pop group The Scaffold.
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C.
Blake Schwarzenbach
Blake Schwarzenbach is an American musician best known as the vocalist and guitarist for the influential punk band Jawbreaker and later projects like Jets to Brazil.
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D.
Sid Phillips
Sid Phillips is the sadistic, toy-destroying neighborhood bully who serves as the primary human antagonist in Pixar's original Toy Story film.
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E.
Ged Grimes
Ged Grimes is a Scottish bassist and composer best known for his work with the rock band Simple Minds and for composing music for video games.
- 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 Zinc Target entity description: David Zinc is a disillusioned corporate lawyer who impulsively quits his high-pressure job and joins a small plaintiffs’ firm, becoming a central figure in John Grisham’s legal thriller "The Litigators."
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A.
David Sancious
David Sancious is an American keyboardist and guitarist best known as an original member of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band and for his work as a versatile session and solo artist.
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B.
Mike McGear
Mike McGear is a British musician, photographer, and comedian best known as Paul McCartney’s younger brother and a member of the satirical pop group The Scaffold.
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C.
Blake Schwarzenbach
Blake Schwarzenbach is an American musician best known as the vocalist and guitarist for the influential punk band Jawbreaker and later projects like Jets to Brazil.
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D.
Sid Phillips
Sid Phillips is the sadistic, toy-destroying neighborhood bully who serves as the primary human antagonist in Pixar's original Toy Story film.
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E.
Ged Grimes
Ged Grimes is a Scottish bassist and composer best known for his work with the rock band Simple Minds and for composing music for video games.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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lawyer ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Litigators NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithCharacter |
Helen Zinc
NERFINISHED
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Oscar Finley NERFINISHED ⓘ Wally Figg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralLegalCaseType |
mass tort
ⓘ
pharmaceutical litigation ⓘ |
| characterIn | novel ⓘ |
| countryOfWorkContext | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creator | John Grisham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
Finley & Figg
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Rochelle, McKinney & Chase NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | John Grisham universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | The Litigators NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formerEmployer | Rochelle, McKinney & Chase NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearedIn | legal thriller ⓘ |
| hasSpouse | Helen Zinc NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTrait |
disillusioned
ⓘ
idealistic ⓘ impulsive ⓘ |
| joinsFirm | Finley & Figg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| joinsFirmType | small plaintiffs’ firm ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkAppearedIn | English ⓘ |
| leavesJobType | high-pressure corporate law firm ⓘ |
| legalSpecialty |
corporate law
ⓘ
plaintiffs’ litigation ⓘ |
| medium | book ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
central character
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protagonist ⓘ |
| occupation |
corporate lawyer
ⓘ
plaintiffs’ lawyer ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | standalone John Grisham novel ⓘ |
| publisherOfWorkAppearedIn | Doubleday NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relationship | husband of Helen Zinc ⓘ |
| themeInStory |
critique of big law practice
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search for meaningful work ⓘ |
| workAuthorNationality | American ⓘ |
| workLocation | Chicago NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearOfWorkFirstPublished | 2011 ⓘ |
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 Zinc Description of subject: David Zinc is a disillusioned corporate lawyer who impulsively quits his high-pressure job and joins a small plaintiffs’ firm, becoming a central figure in John Grisham’s legal thriller "The Litigators."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.