David Segal
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David Segal is a progressive activist and former Rhode Island state legislator best known for co-founding the digital civil liberties and advocacy organization Demand Progress.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Segal canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10827423 — 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)
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Target entity: David Segal Context triple: [Demand Progress, coFounder, David Segal]
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A.
Douglas Segal
Douglas Segal is a film producer best known for his work on the action-comedy movie "Bulletproof Monk."
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B.
Dan Gershon
Dan Gershon is known as the brother of American actress Gina Gershon.
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C.
Dan Avidan
Dan Avidan is an American musician, comedian, and internet personality best known as co-host of the Let's Play web series Game Grumps and as the lead singer of the musical comedy duo Ninja Sex Party.
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D.
Alan Siegel
Alan Siegel is a film producer best known for his long-running collaboration with actor Gerard Butler on action and thriller movies.
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E.
Eli Segal
Eli Segal was an American political strategist and nonprofit leader known for his senior roles in Democratic campaigns and for helping launch major national service initiatives like AmeriCorps.
- 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 Segal Target entity description: David Segal is a progressive activist and former Rhode Island state legislator best known for co-founding the digital civil liberties and advocacy organization Demand Progress.
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A.
Douglas Segal
Douglas Segal is a film producer best known for his work on the action-comedy movie "Bulletproof Monk."
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B.
Dan Gershon
Dan Gershon is known as the brother of American actress Gina Gershon.
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C.
Dan Avidan
Dan Avidan is an American musician, comedian, and internet personality best known as co-host of the Let's Play web series Game Grumps and as the lead singer of the musical comedy duo Ninja Sex Party.
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D.
Alan Siegel
Alan Siegel is a film producer best known for his long-running collaboration with actor Gerard Butler on action and thriller movies.
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E.
Eli Segal
Eli Segal was an American political strategist and nonprofit leader known for his senior roles in Democratic campaigns and for helping launch major national service initiatives like AmeriCorps.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
political activist ⓘ politician ⓘ progressive activist ⓘ |
| activeIn |
United States politics
NERFINISHED
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internet policy debates ⓘ |
| advocatesFor |
civil liberties online
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democratic reform ⓘ government transparency ⓘ open internet ⓘ |
| coFoundedWith | Demand Progress co-founders ⓘ |
| coFounderOf | Demand Progress NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
civil liberties
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digital civil liberties ⓘ internet freedom advocacy ⓘ technology policy ⓘ |
| foundedOrganizationType | digital rights organization ⓘ |
| knownFor | co-founding Demand Progress ⓘ |
| memberOf | Rhode Island House of Representatives NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | David Segal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | online organizing against SOPA and PIPA ⓘ |
| occupation |
activist
ⓘ
nonprofit executive ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | progressive politics ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
member of the Providence City Council
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member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives ⓘ |
| residence | Rhode Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stateLegislatorIn | Rhode Island 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 Segal Description of subject: David Segal is a progressive activist and former Rhode Island state legislator best known for co-founding the digital civil liberties and advocacy organization Demand Progress.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Demand Progress
subject surface form:
Demand Progress