David Coombs
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David Coombs is an American defense attorney best known for representing U.S. Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning in her high-profile court-martial.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Coombs canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2667349 — 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 Coombs Context triple: [United States v. Chelsea Manning, defenseCounsel, David Coombs]
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A.
Don Jamieson
Don Jamieson was a Canadian Liberal politician and cabinet minister who served prominently in federal government roles, including in foreign affairs, during the latter half of the 20th century.
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B.
Bruce McCulloch
Bruce McCulloch is a Canadian actor, writer, and comedian best known as one of the core members of the sketch comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall.
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C.
Lawrence Cummings
Lawrence Cummings is a British conductor and harpsichordist renowned for his interpretations of Baroque music and leadership of major early music ensembles and festivals.
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D.
Peter Mathieson
Peter Mathieson is a British nephrologist and academic leader who has served as principal and vice-chancellor of major universities, including the University of Edinburgh and the University of Hong Kong.
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E.
Douglas McPhail
Douglas McPhail was an American singer and actor active in the late 1930s and early 1940s, known for his musical film roles at MGM.
- 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 Coombs Target entity description: David Coombs is an American defense attorney best known for representing U.S. Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning in her high-profile court-martial.
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A.
Don Jamieson
Don Jamieson was a Canadian Liberal politician and cabinet minister who served prominently in federal government roles, including in foreign affairs, during the latter half of the 20th century.
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B.
Bruce McCulloch
Bruce McCulloch is a Canadian actor, writer, and comedian best known as one of the core members of the sketch comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall.
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C.
Lawrence Cummings
Lawrence Cummings is a British conductor and harpsichordist renowned for his interpretations of Baroque music and leadership of major early music ensembles and festivals.
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D.
Peter Mathieson
Peter Mathieson is a British nephrologist and academic leader who has served as principal and vice-chancellor of major universities, including the University of Edinburgh and the University of Hong Kong.
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E.
Douglas McPhail
Douglas McPhail was an American singer and actor active in the late 1930s and early 1940s, known for his musical film roles at MGM.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American lawyer
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defense attorney ⓘ human ⓘ lawyer ⓘ |
| basedIn | Rhode Island ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Park University
ⓘ
Roger Williams University ⓘ
surface form:
Roger Williams University School of Law
University of Idaho College of Law ⓘ University of Maryland Global Campus ⓘ
surface form:
University of Maryland University College
|
| employer |
Roger Williams University
ⓘ
surface form:
Roger Williams University School of Law
United States Army ⓘ University of Idaho College of Law ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
criminal law
ⓘ
military law ⓘ |
| genre | military justice ⓘ |
| hasBlog | Army Court-Martial Defense blog ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | http://www.armycourtmartialdefense.info/ ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
bar of the state of Massachusetts
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bar of the state of Rhode Island ⓘ |
| notableFor | representing Chelsea Manning ⓘ |
| notableWork | defense of Chelsea Manning in court-martial ⓘ |
| occupation |
Judge Advocate General's Corps officer
ⓘ
criminal defense lawyer ⓘ defense attorney ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Army judge advocate
ⓘ
law professor ⓘ military defense counsel ⓘ military prosecutor ⓘ |
| represented | Chelsea Manning ⓘ |
| representedIn |
United States v. Chelsea Manning
ⓘ
surface form:
United States v. Manning
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Shawn Coombs ⓘ |
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 Coombs Description of subject: David Coombs is an American defense attorney best known for representing U.S. Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning in her high-profile court-martial.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.