David Johansen
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David Johansen is an American rock singer and actor best known as the frontman of the New York Dolls and for his solo work under the pseudonym Buster Poindexter.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Johansen canonical | 5 |
| David Roger Johansen | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3672897 — 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 Johansen Context triple: [Scrooged, castMember, David Johansen]
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A.
Richard Hell
Richard Hell is an influential American punk rock musician, singer, and writer, best known as a founding figure of the 1970s New York punk scene with bands like Television and Richard Hell and the Voidoids.
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B.
Joey Ramone
Joey Ramone was the iconic lead vocalist of the pioneering American punk rock band the Ramones, known for his distinctive voice, lanky frame, and lasting influence on punk music.
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C.
Johnny Ramone
Johnny Ramone was the influential, fast-strumming guitarist and co-founder of the pioneering New York punk rock band the Ramones.
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D.
Dee Dee Ramone
Dee Dee Ramone was the bassist, songwriter, and founding member of the pioneering punk rock band the Ramones.
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E.
Greg Morrisett
Greg Morrisett is a computer scientist known for his work on programming languages and type systems, particularly in the design of safe and secure systems.
- 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 Johansen Target entity description: David Johansen is an American rock singer and actor best known as the frontman of the New York Dolls and for his solo work under the pseudonym Buster Poindexter.
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A.
Richard Hell
Richard Hell is an influential American punk rock musician, singer, and writer, best known as a founding figure of the 1970s New York punk scene with bands like Television and Richard Hell and the Voidoids.
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B.
Joey Ramone
Joey Ramone was the iconic lead vocalist of the pioneering American punk rock band the Ramones, known for his distinctive voice, lanky frame, and lasting influence on punk music.
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C.
Johnny Ramone
Johnny Ramone was the influential, fast-strumming guitarist and co-founder of the pioneering New York punk rock band the Ramones.
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D.
Dee Dee Ramone
Dee Dee Ramone was the bassist, songwriter, and founding member of the pioneering punk rock band the Ramones.
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E.
Greg Morrisett
Greg Morrisett is a computer scientist known for his work on programming languages and type systems, particularly in the design of safe and secure systems.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ recording artist ⓘ rock singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1960s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Arthur Kane
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Johnny Thunders ⓘ Killer Kane ⓘ Sylvain Sylvain ⓘ The Harry Smiths ⓘ |
| birthName |
David Johansen
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
David Roger Johansen
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| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1950-01-09 ⓘ |
| ethnicity | American of Norwegian descent ⓘ |
| genre |
blues
ⓘ
glam rock ⓘ lounge music ⓘ punk rock ⓘ rhythm and blues ⓘ rock music ⓘ |
| instrument |
harmonica
ⓘ
vocals ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
The New York Dolls
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surface form:
New York Dolls
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| name | David Johansen self-link ⓘ |
| notableAppearance |
Scrooged
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surface form:
film "Scrooged"
Saturday Night Live ⓘ
surface form:
television series "Saturday Night Live"
|
| notableWork |
Buster Poindexter
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album "Buster Goes Berserk" ⓘ album "Buster Poindexter" ⓘ album "David Johansen" ⓘ album "Here Comes the Night" ⓘ album "In Style" ⓘ frontman of the New York Dolls ⓘ David Johansen Band ⓘ
surface form:
project "David Johansen and the Harry Smiths"
song "Hot Hot Hot" ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
musician ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
borough of Staten Island
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surface form:
Staten Island, New York City, New York, United States
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| previousSpouse | Cyrinda Foxe ⓘ |
| pseudonym |
Buster Poindexter
ⓘ
David Johansen Band ⓘ
surface form:
David Johansen and the Harry Smiths
|
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| spouse | Mara Hennessey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| vocalRole | lead vocalist of New York Dolls ⓘ |
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 Johansen Description of subject: David Johansen is an American rock singer and actor best known as the frontman of the New York Dolls and for his solo work under the pseudonym Buster Poindexter.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
New York Dolls
subject surface form:
New York Dolls
this entity surface form:
David Roger Johansen