Rubén Blades
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Rubén Blades is a Panamanian singer, songwriter, actor, and political figure renowned for his influential salsa music and acclaimed film and television roles.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Rubén Blades canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3290013 — 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: Rubén Blades Context triple: [Once Upon a Time in Mexico, starring, Rubén Blades]
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A.
Luis Pardo
Luis Pardo was a Chilean naval officer best known for commanding the ship Yelcho in the 1916 rescue of Ernest Shackleton’s stranded Endurance expedition from Elephant Island in Antarctica.
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B.
Ibrahim Ferrer
Ibrahim Ferrer was a celebrated Cuban son and bolero singer best known internationally for his work with the Buena Vista Social Club.
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C.
David Américo Ortiz Arias
David Américo Ortiz Arias is a Dominican former Major League Baseball designated hitter and first baseman, best known as a Boston Red Sox legend and clutch postseason performer nicknamed "Big Papi."
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D.
José Castro
José Castro was a 19th-century Californio military leader and politician who played a prominent role in Mexican-era California before U.S. annexation.
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E.
Benny Moré
Benny Moré was a legendary Cuban singer, bandleader, and songwriter renowned for his powerful voice and influential contributions to genres like son, bolero, and mambo.
- 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: Rubén Blades Target entity description: Rubén Blades is a Panamanian singer, songwriter, actor, and political figure renowned for his influential salsa music and acclaimed film and television roles.
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A.
Luis Pardo
Luis Pardo was a Chilean naval officer best known for commanding the ship Yelcho in the 1916 rescue of Ernest Shackleton’s stranded Endurance expedition from Elephant Island in Antarctica.
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B.
Ibrahim Ferrer
Ibrahim Ferrer was a celebrated Cuban son and bolero singer best known internationally for his work with the Buena Vista Social Club.
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C.
David Américo Ortiz Arias
David Américo Ortiz Arias is a Dominican former Major League Baseball designated hitter and first baseman, best known as a Boston Red Sox legend and clutch postseason performer nicknamed "Big Papi."
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D.
José Castro
José Castro was a 19th-century Californio military leader and politician who played a prominent role in Mexican-era California before U.S. annexation.
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E.
Benny Moré
Benny Moré was a legendary Cuban singer, bandleader, and songwriter renowned for his powerful voice and influential contributions to genres like son, bolero, and mambo.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (63)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
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human ⓘ lawyer ⓘ politician ⓘ salsa musician ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1960s GENERATED ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Fania All-Stars
GENERATED
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Seis del Solar GENERATED ⓘ Willie Colón GENERATED ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
ASCAP Founders Award
GENERATED
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Grammy Award ⓘ Latin Grammy Award GENERATED ⓘ Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year GENERATED ⓘ |
| birthName | Rubén Blades Bellido de Luna GENERATED ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Panama GENERATED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Panama GENERATED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1948-07-16 GENERATED ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Harvard Law School
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University of Panama GENERATED ⓘ |
| familyName | Blades GENERATED ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy | law GENERATED ⓘ |
| gender | male GENERATED ⓘ |
| genre |
Latin jazz
GENERATED
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Latin pop GENERATED ⓘ salsa GENERATED ⓘ |
| givenName | Rubén GENERATED ⓘ |
| instrument | voice GENERATED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Spanish GENERATED ⓘ |
| movement | Nueva canción GENERATED ⓘ |
| name | Rubén Blades GENERATED ⓘ |
| notableRole |
Daniel Salazar in Fear the Walking Dead
GENERATED
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José in The Milagro Beanfield War GENERATED ⓘ Juan Obregón in Clear and Present Danger GENERATED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Buscando América
GENERATED
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Crossover Dreams GENERATED ⓘ Escenas GENERATED ⓘ Fear the Walking Dead GENERATED ⓘ Hands of Stone GENERATED ⓘ Mo’ Better Blues GENERATED ⓘ Once Upon a Time in Mexico GENERATED ⓘ Pedro Navaja GENERATED ⓘ Plástico GENERATED ⓘ Safe House GENERATED ⓘ Siembra GENERATED ⓘ The Milagro Beanfield War GENERATED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
GENERATED
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composer GENERATED ⓘ film actor GENERATED ⓘ lawyer GENERATED ⓘ politician GENERATED ⓘ singer GENERATED ⓘ songwriter GENERATED ⓘ television actor GENERATED ⓘ university teacher GENERATED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Panama City GENERATED ⓘ |
| politicalParty | Papa Egoró GENERATED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Panamanian Minister of Tourism GENERATED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Elektra Records
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Fania Records GENERATED ⓘ Sony Music Entertainment ⓘ
surface form:
Sony Music
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| residence | New York City ⓘ |
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: Rubén Blades Description of subject: Rubén Blades is a Panamanian singer, songwriter, actor, and political figure renowned for his influential salsa music and acclaimed film and television roles.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.