Michael McDonald
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Michael McDonald is an American singer, songwriter, and keyboardist known for his soulful baritone voice and work with the Doobie Brothers as well as a successful solo career.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Michael McDonald canonical | 20 |
| Michael McDonald (musician) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3086730 — 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: Michael McDonald Context triple: [Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours, coveredBy, Michael McDonald]
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A.
Peabo Bryson
Peabo Bryson is an American R&B and soul singer best known for his powerful ballads and duets, including several hit Disney movie theme songs.
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B.
Kenny Loggins
Kenny Loggins is an American singer-songwriter best known for his soft rock hits and iconic 1980s movie soundtrack songs such as "Footloose" and "Danger Zone."
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C.
Peter Cetera
Peter Cetera is an American singer, songwriter, and bassist best known as a founding member and lead vocalist of the rock band Chicago and for his successful solo career in the 1980s.
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D.
Tom Bell
Tom Bell was an American football official best known for serving as the referee in Super Bowl III.
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E.
Kim Carnes
Kim Carnes is an American singer-songwriter best known for her raspy voice and the 1981 hit single "Bette Davis Eyes."
- 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: Michael McDonald Target entity description: Michael McDonald is an American singer, songwriter, and keyboardist known for his soulful baritone voice and work with the Doobie Brothers as well as a successful solo career.
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A.
Peabo Bryson
Peabo Bryson is an American R&B and soul singer best known for his powerful ballads and duets, including several hit Disney movie theme songs.
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B.
Kenny Loggins
Kenny Loggins is an American singer-songwriter best known for his soft rock hits and iconic 1980s movie soundtrack songs such as "Footloose" and "Danger Zone."
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C.
Peter Cetera
Peter Cetera is an American singer, songwriter, and bassist best known as a founding member and lead vocalist of the rock band Chicago and for his successful solo career in the 1980s.
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D.
Tom Bell
Tom Bell was an American football official best known for serving as the referee in Super Bowl III.
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E.
Kim Carnes
Kim Carnes is an American singer-songwriter best known for her raspy voice and the 1981 hit single "Bette Davis Eyes."
- 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: Michael McDonald Description of subject: Michael McDonald is an American singer, songwriter, and keyboardist known for his soulful baritone voice and work with the Doobie Brothers as well as a successful solo career.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Running Scared (1986 film)
subject surface form:
Ain’t No Mountain High Enough
subject surface form:
Affton, Missouri
this entity surface form:
Michael McDonald (musician)