David Shaber
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David Shaber was an American screenwriter best known for his work on influential 1970s and 1980s films, including the cult classic "The Warriors."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Shaber canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11773609 — 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 Shaber Context triple: [The Warriors, screenwriter, David Shaber]
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A.
James Scheffer
James Scheffer, better known as Jim Jonsin, is an American record producer and songwriter recognized for crafting hit tracks across hip hop and pop music.
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B.
Garth Drabinsky
Garth Drabinsky is a Canadian theatrical producer and former film executive best known for staging large-scale Broadway and international productions, including the musical "Ragtime."
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C.
David Javerbaum
David Javerbaum is an American comedy writer and producer best known for his work as a head writer and executive producer on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and for co-authoring several of its related books.
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D.
Fred Schuler
Fred Schuler is a cinematographer best known for his work on films such as the 1980 comedy "Stir Crazy."
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E.
Ken Shadie
Ken Shadie was an Australian screenwriter best known for co-writing the hit 1986 comedy film "Crocodile Dundee."
- 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 Shaber Target entity description: David Shaber was an American screenwriter best known for his work on influential 1970s and 1980s films, including the cult classic "The Warriors."
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A.
James Scheffer
James Scheffer, better known as Jim Jonsin, is an American record producer and songwriter recognized for crafting hit tracks across hip hop and pop music.
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B.
Garth Drabinsky
Garth Drabinsky is a Canadian theatrical producer and former film executive best known for staging large-scale Broadway and international productions, including the musical "Ragtime."
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C.
David Javerbaum
David Javerbaum is an American comedy writer and producer best known for his work as a head writer and executive producer on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and for co-authoring several of its related books.
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D.
Fred Schuler
Fred Schuler is a cinematographer best known for his work on films such as the 1980 comedy "Stir Crazy."
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E.
Ken Shadie
Ken Shadie was an Australian screenwriter best known for co-writing the hit 1986 comedy film "Crocodile Dundee."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American screenwriter
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film ⓘ person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| era |
1970s
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1980s ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | cinema ⓘ |
| genre |
cult film
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film ⓘ screenwriting ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Flight of the Intruder
NERFINISHED
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Last Embrace NERFINISHED ⓘ Nighthawks NERFINISHED ⓘ The Warriors NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | David Shaber NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| notableWork |
Flight of the Intruder
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Last Embrace NERFINISHED ⓘ Nighthawks NERFINISHED ⓘ The Warriors NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
playwright
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screenwriter ⓘ |
| screenwriter | David Shaber NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wroteScreenplayFor |
Flight of the Intruder
NERFINISHED
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Last Embrace NERFINISHED ⓘ Nighthawks NERFINISHED ⓘ The Warriors 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 Shaber Description of subject: David Shaber was an American screenwriter best known for his work on influential 1970s and 1980s films, including the cult classic "The Warriors."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.