David A. Newman
E87531
David A. Newman is a screenwriter known for co-writing the hit romantic comedy film "Think Like a Man," adapted from Steve Harvey’s bestselling book.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David A. Newman canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T522896 — 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 A. Newman Context triple: [Think Like a Man, screenwriter, David A. Newman]
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A.
Robert Newman
Robert Newman was an American engineer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the influential technology and research firm Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN).
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B.
Russell Carpenter
Russell Carpenter is an Academy Award–winning American cinematographer best known for his work on major films such as Titanic and other high-profile Hollywood productions.
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C.
Charles Roven
Charles Roven is an American film producer known for his work on major Hollywood blockbusters, including Christopher Nolan’s films such as Oppenheimer and The Dark Knight trilogy.
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D.
Richard Leibler
Richard Leibler was an American mathematician and statistician best known for co-developing the Kullback–Leibler divergence, a fundamental concept in information theory and statistics.
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E.
Michael Masser
Michael Masser was an American songwriter and producer best known for crafting soulful pop and R&B ballads for artists like Whitney Houston and Diana Ross.
- 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 A. Newman Target entity description: David A. Newman is a screenwriter known for co-writing the hit romantic comedy film "Think Like a Man," adapted from Steve Harvey’s bestselling book.
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A.
Robert Newman
Robert Newman was an American engineer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the influential technology and research firm Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN).
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B.
Russell Carpenter
Russell Carpenter is an Academy Award–winning American cinematographer best known for his work on major films such as Titanic and other high-profile Hollywood productions.
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C.
Charles Roven
Charles Roven is an American film producer known for his work on major Hollywood blockbusters, including Christopher Nolan’s films such as Oppenheimer and The Dark Knight trilogy.
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D.
Richard Leibler
Richard Leibler was an American mathematician and statistician best known for co-developing the Kullback–Leibler divergence, a fundamental concept in information theory and statistics.
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E.
Michael Masser
Michael Masser was an American songwriter and producer best known for crafting soulful pop and R&B ballads for artists like Whitney Houston and Diana Ross.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
ⓘ
film ⓘ person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| author | Steve Harvey ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Think Like a Man
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surface form:
Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man
|
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| coWrote | Think Like a Man ⓘ |
| genre |
romantic comedy film
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self-help book ⓘ |
| notableWork | Think Like a Man ⓘ |
| occupation | screenwriter ⓘ |
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 A. Newman Description of subject: David A. Newman is a screenwriter known for co-writing the hit romantic comedy film "Think Like a Man," adapted from Steve Harvey’s bestselling book.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.