Starkey
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Starkey is a surname most prominently associated with British historian and television personality David Starkey.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Starkey canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3043683 — 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: Starkey Context triple: [David Starkey, familyName, Starkey]
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A.
Ziggy Marley
Ziggy Marley is a Grammy-winning Jamaican musician and the eldest son of reggae legend Bob Marley, known for his work with Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers and his solo career.
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B.
Rohan Marley
Rohan Marley is a Jamaican entrepreneur and former college football player, best known as one of Bob Marley's sons and a co-founder of the Marley Coffee brand.
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C.
Cedella Marley
Cedella Marley is a Jamaican singer, fashion designer, and entrepreneur, best known as the daughter of reggae legend Bob Marley and for her work preserving and promoting his legacy.
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D.
Bob Marley
Bob Marley was a Jamaican singer, songwriter, and cultural icon whose reggae music and spiritual message popularized Rastafarian beliefs and Caribbean culture worldwide.
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E.
Rose Royce
Rose Royce is an American soul and R&B group best known for their 1970s hits like "Car Wash," "I Wanna Get Next to You," and "Wishing on a Star."
- 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: Starkey Target entity description: Starkey is a surname most prominently associated with British historian and television personality David Starkey.
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A.
Ziggy Marley
Ziggy Marley is a Grammy-winning Jamaican musician and the eldest son of reggae legend Bob Marley, known for his work with Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers and his solo career.
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B.
Rohan Marley
Rohan Marley is a Jamaican entrepreneur and former college football player, best known as one of Bob Marley's sons and a co-founder of the Marley Coffee brand.
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C.
Cedella Marley
Cedella Marley is a Jamaican singer, fashion designer, and entrepreneur, best known as the daughter of reggae legend Bob Marley and for her work preserving and promoting his legacy.
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D.
Bob Marley
Bob Marley was a Jamaican singer, songwriter, and cultural icon whose reggae music and spiritual message popularized Rastafarian beliefs and Caribbean culture worldwide.
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E.
Rose Royce
Rose Royce is an American soul and R&B group best known for their 1970s hits like "Car Wash," "I Wanna Get Next to You," and "Wishing on a Star."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
family name
ⓘ
human ⓘ human ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| citizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| etymologyStatus | of English origin ⓘ |
| familyName | Starkey self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Tudor history
ⓘ
history ⓘ |
| givenName | David ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
David Starkey
ⓘ
surface form:
David Robert Starkey
David Starkey ⓘ |
| hasWritingSystem | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| nameCategory | English-language surname ⓘ |
| notableFor |
British television history documentaries
ⓘ
works on Henry VIII ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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historian ⓘ television personality ⓘ |
| sameAs | David Starkey ⓘ |
| usedInCountry |
United Kingdom
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
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: Starkey Description of subject: Starkey is a surname most prominently associated with British historian and television personality David Starkey.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
David Starkey