David
E34716
David is a common given name and surname of Hebrew origin, widely used across many cultures and historically associated with the biblical King David.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T117565 — 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 Context triple: [Jacques-Louis David, familyName, David]
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A.
David
David is the middle name of Dwight D. Eisenhower, the 34th president of the United States and Supreme Allied Commander in Europe during World War II.
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B.
David
David is a major city in western Panama and the capital of Chiriquí Province.
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C.
George
George is the first name of George Washington, the first President of the United States and a key leader in the American Revolutionary War.
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D.
Martin
Martin is the given name of Martin Luther King Jr., the prominent American civil rights leader and Baptist minister who advocated nonviolent resistance to racial segregation.
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E.
Christopher
Christopher is the full given name of Chris Sununu, an American politician who has served as governor of New Hampshire.
- 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 Target entity description: David is a common given name and surname of Hebrew origin, widely used across many cultures and historically associated with the biblical King David.
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A.
David
David is the middle name of Dwight D. Eisenhower, the 34th president of the United States and Supreme Allied Commander in Europe during World War II.
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B.
David
David is a major city in western Panama and the capital of Chiriquí Province.
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C.
George
George is the first name of George Washington, the first President of the United States and a key leader in the American Revolutionary War.
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D.
Martin
Martin is the given name of Martin Luther King Jr., the prominent American civil rights leader and Baptist minister who advocated nonviolent resistance to racial segregation.
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E.
Christopher
Christopher is the full given name of Chris Sununu, an American politician who has served as governor of New Hampshire.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (65)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hebrew masculine given name
ⓘ
given name ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| hasEtymologicalRoot | Hebrew name Dawid ⓘ |
| hasFeminineForm |
Davida
ⓘ
Davina ⓘ |
| hasGender | masculine ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin | Hebrew ⓘ |
| hasMeaning | beloved ⓘ |
| hasNameDayInSomeCountries |
December 29
ⓘ
March 1 ⓘ |
| hasPopularity | widely used across many cultures ⓘ |
| hasScriptOfOrigin | Hebrew alphabet ⓘ |
| hasShortForm |
Dai
ⓘ
Dave ⓘ Davie ⓘ Davo ⓘ Davy ⓘ |
| hasTransliteration |
Dávid
ⓘ
surface form:
Dawid
King David ⓘ
surface form:
Dāwīḏ
|
| hasVariant |
Dafydd
ⓘ
Mahmoud ⓘ
surface form:
Daoud
Dawud ⓘ
surface form:
Daud
David self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Davide
Dávid ⓘ
surface form:
Davíd
Dávid ⓘ
surface form:
Dawid
Dawud ⓘ Dávid ⓘ
surface form:
Dovid
Ó Braonáin ⓘ
surface form:
Dáibhídh
Dávid ⓘ |
| isAssociatedWith |
Bible
ⓘ
Christianity ⓘ Islam ⓘ Judaism ⓘ King David ⓘ |
| isCommonInRegion |
Europe
ⓘ
Israel ⓘ Latin America ⓘ North America ⓘ |
| isUsedInCulture |
Christian culture
ⓘ
Islamic culture ⓘ Jewish culture ⓘ |
| isUsedInLanguage |
Arabic
ⓘ
Czech ⓘ Danish ⓘ Dutch ⓘ English ⓘ French ⓘ German ⓘ Hebrew ⓘ Hungarian ⓘ Irish ⓘ Italian ⓘ Norwegian ⓘ Persian language ⓘ
surface form:
Persian
Polish language ⓘ
surface form:
Polish
Portuguese ⓘ Romanian ⓘ Russian ⓘ Scottish Gaelic ⓘ Slovak ⓘ Spanish ⓘ Swedish ⓘ Turkish language ⓘ
surface form:
Turkish
Welsh ⓘ |
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 Description of subject: David is a common given name and surname of Hebrew origin, widely used across many cultures and historically associated with the biblical King David.
Referenced by (636)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
David Ochterlony
subject surface form:
David Porter
subject surface form:
David D. Kirkpatrick
subject surface form:
David Wilkinson (political scientist)
subject surface form:
David Wilkinson (director)
subject surface form:
David Wilkinson (engineer)
subject surface form:
David Wilkinson (theologian)
subject surface form:
David Wilkinson (attorney general)