Tony Williams
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Tony Williams is an American singer, songwriter, and producer best known for his frequent collaborations with Kanye West and contributions to the G.O.O.D. Music collective.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tony Williams canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T268970 — 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: Tony Williams Context triple: [GOOD Music, hasArtist, Tony Williams]
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A.
Don Maynard
Don Maynard was a Hall of Fame American football wide receiver best known as Joe Namath’s primary deep threat and a key offensive star for the New York Jets during the 1960s.
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B.
Herbie Hancock
Herbie Hancock is an influential American jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader known for his work with Miles Davis and for pioneering jazz fusion and electronic music.
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C.
Arthur Lee
Arthur Lee was an American diplomat and member of the prominent Lee family of Virginia who played a key role in securing French support for the United States during the Revolutionary War.
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D.
Irvin Plant
Irvin Plant is a major steel production facility within U.S. Steel’s Mon Valley Works in Pennsylvania, known for processing and finishing steel products.
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E.
Dulé Hill
Dulé Hill is an American actor best known for his roles as presidential aide Charlie Young on "The West Wing" and pharmaceutical salesman-turned-fake psychic Burton "Gus" Guster on "Psych."
- 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: Tony Williams Target entity description: Tony Williams is an American singer, songwriter, and producer best known for his frequent collaborations with Kanye West and contributions to the G.O.O.D. Music collective.
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A.
Don Maynard
Don Maynard was a Hall of Fame American football wide receiver best known as Joe Namath’s primary deep threat and a key offensive star for the New York Jets during the 1960s.
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B.
Herbie Hancock
Herbie Hancock is an influential American jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader known for his work with Miles Davis and for pioneering jazz fusion and electronic music.
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C.
Arthur Lee
Arthur Lee was an American diplomat and member of the prominent Lee family of Virginia who played a key role in securing French support for the United States during the Revolutionary War.
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D.
Irvin Plant
Irvin Plant is a major steel production facility within U.S. Steel’s Mon Valley Works in Pennsylvania, known for processing and finishing steel products.
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E.
Dulé Hill
Dulé Hill is an American actor best known for his roles as presidential aide Charlie Young on "The West Wing" and pharmaceutical salesman-turned-fake psychic Burton "Gus" Guster on "Psych."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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record producer ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| collaboratesWith | Kanye West ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
music industry
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music production ⓘ songwriting ⓘ |
| genre |
R&B
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hip hop ⓘ soul music ⓘ |
| hasPart |
featured artist appearances
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solo recordings ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | G.O.O.D. Music ⓘ |
| notableWork |
background and supporting vocals on hip hop and R&B tracks
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collaborations with Kanye West ⓘ contributions to G.O.O.D. Music releases ⓘ guest vocals on Kanye West songs ⓘ |
| occupation |
record producer
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singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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: Tony Williams Description of subject: Tony Williams is an American singer, songwriter, and producer best known for his frequent collaborations with Kanye West and contributions to the G.O.O.D. Music collective.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Late Registration