Dave Prater
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Dave Prater was an American soul and R&B singer best known as one half of the influential duo Sam & Dave, famed for hits like "Soul Man" and "Hold On, I'm Comin'."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dave Prater canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3706820 — 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: Dave Prater Context triple: [Sam & Dave, member, Dave Prater]
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A.
Matt Birk
Matt Birk is a former NFL center, primarily for the Minnesota Vikings and Baltimore Ravens, who became a Super Bowl champion and later an executive with the league.
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B.
Anthony Zerbe
Anthony Zerbe is an American character actor known for his intense, often villainous roles in film and television, including appearances in projects like "See No Evil, Hear No Evil," "The Omega Man," and the James Bond film "Licence to Kill."
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C.
David Akers
David Akers is a former American football placekicker best known for his long and successful NFL career, primarily with the Philadelphia Eagles, during which he became one of the league’s most accurate and highest-scoring kickers.
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D.
Travis Goff
Travis Goff is a college athletics administrator who serves as the athletic director at the University of Kansas, overseeing the Jayhawks’ sports programs.
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E.
Bucky Wunderlick
Bucky Wunderlick is a reclusive rock star and the introspective protagonist of Don DeLillo’s novel "Great Jones Street."
- 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: Dave Prater Target entity description: Dave Prater was an American soul and R&B singer best known as one half of the influential duo Sam & Dave, famed for hits like "Soul Man" and "Hold On, I'm Comin'."
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A.
Matt Birk
Matt Birk is a former NFL center, primarily for the Minnesota Vikings and Baltimore Ravens, who became a Super Bowl champion and later an executive with the league.
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B.
Anthony Zerbe
Anthony Zerbe is an American character actor known for his intense, often villainous roles in film and television, including appearances in projects like "See No Evil, Hear No Evil," "The Omega Man," and the James Bond film "Licence to Kill."
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C.
David Akers
David Akers is a former American football placekicker best known for his long and successful NFL career, primarily with the Philadelphia Eagles, during which he became one of the league’s most accurate and highest-scoring kickers.
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D.
Travis Goff
Travis Goff is a college athletics administrator who serves as the athletic director at the University of Kansas, overseeing the Jayhawks’ sports programs.
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E.
Bucky Wunderlick
Bucky Wunderlick is a reclusive rock star and the introspective protagonist of Don DeLillo’s novel "Great Jones Street."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
human ⓘ musical duo ⓘ musical duo member ⓘ rhythm and blues singer ⓘ soul singer ⓘ |
| activeIn |
1960s music scene
ⓘ
1970s music scene ⓘ |
| associatedAct | Sam Moore ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Prater ⓘ |
| genre |
rhythm and blues
ⓘ
soul music ⓘ |
| givenName | Dave ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn |
R&B vocal duos
ⓘ
later soul singers ⓘ |
| influencedGenre |
rhythm and blues
ⓘ
soul music ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Sam & Dave ⓘ |
| musicalStyle | Southern soul ⓘ |
| name | Dave Prater self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor | being one half of the duo Sam & Dave ⓘ |
| notableSongPerformance |
Hold On, I’m Coming
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surface form:
Hold On, I'm Comin'
I Thank You ⓘ Soul Man ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Hold On, I’m Coming
ⓘ
surface form:
Hold On, I'm Comin'
I Thank You ⓘ Soul Man ⓘ When Something Is Wrong with My Baby ⓘ |
| occupation | singer ⓘ |
| partOf |
Memphis soul
ⓘ
surface form:
Memphis soul tradition
|
| performerIn | Stax Records era of soul music ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Atlantic Records
ⓘ
Stax Records ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| vocalType | baritone ⓘ |
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: Dave Prater Description of subject: Dave Prater was an American soul and R&B singer best known as one half of the influential duo Sam & Dave, famed for hits like "Soul Man" and "Hold On, I'm Comin'."
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.