Dave Matthews
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Dave Matthews is a South African-born American singer-songwriter and guitarist best known as the frontman of the Dave Matthews Band, a hugely popular rock and jam band.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dave Matthews canonical | 15 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2323575 — 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: Dave Matthews Context triple: [Farm Aid, founder, Dave Matthews]
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A.
Ryan Adams
Ryan Adams is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer known for his prolific output and contributions to alternative country and rock music.
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B.
Bob Weir
Bob Weir is an American musician best known as a founding member, rhythm guitarist, and vocalist of the rock band the Grateful Dead.
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C.
David Shaw
David Shaw is an American football coach best known for his successful tenure as head coach of Stanford University's football program in the 2010s.
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D.
Warren Haynes
Warren Haynes is an American rock and blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter best known for his work with Gov't Mule and his influential role in the Southern rock scene.
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E.
Jim James
Jim James is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist best known as the frontman of the rock band My Morning Jacket.
- 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: Dave Matthews Target entity description: Dave Matthews is a South African-born American singer-songwriter and guitarist best known as the frontman of the Dave Matthews Band, a hugely popular rock and jam band.
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A.
Ryan Adams
Ryan Adams is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer known for his prolific output and contributions to alternative country and rock music.
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B.
Bob Weir
Bob Weir is an American musician best known as a founding member, rhythm guitarist, and vocalist of the rock band the Grateful Dead.
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C.
David Shaw
David Shaw is an American football coach best known for his successful tenure as head coach of Stanford University's football program in the 2010s.
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D.
Warren Haynes
Warren Haynes is an American rock and blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter best known for his work with Gov't Mule and his influential role in the Southern rock scene.
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E.
Jim James
Jim James is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist best known as the frontman of the rock band My Morning Jacket.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Dave Matthews Description of subject: Dave Matthews is a South African-born American singer-songwriter and guitarist best known as the frontman of the Dave Matthews Band, a hugely popular rock and jam band.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.