Dave Riley
E417075
Dave Riley was an American bassist best known for his work with the influential noise rock band Big Black in the 1980s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dave Riley canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4161281 — 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 Riley Context triple: [Songs About Fucking, bandMemberOnRecording, Dave Riley]
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A.
Gene Stallings
Gene Stallings is an American football coach best known for leading Texas A&M and later winning a national championship as head coach of the Alabama Crimson Tide in the 1990s.
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B.
Bobby Bowden
Bobby Bowden was a legendary American college football coach best known for transforming Florida State University into a national powerhouse and winning two national championships.
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C.
Tyrone Willingham
Tyrone Willingham is an American football coach best known for leading major college programs including Stanford, Notre Dame, and Washington.
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D.
Lloyd Carr
Lloyd Carr is an American football coach best known for leading the University of Michigan Wolverines to consistent success, including a share of the 1997 national championship.
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E.
Les Miles
Les Miles is an American college football coach best known for leading LSU to a national championship and for his colorful, unconventional coaching style.
- 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 Riley Target entity description: Dave Riley was an American bassist best known for his work with the influential noise rock band Big Black in the 1980s.
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A.
Gene Stallings
Gene Stallings is an American football coach best known for leading Texas A&M and later winning a national championship as head coach of the Alabama Crimson Tide in the 1990s.
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B.
Bobby Bowden
Bobby Bowden was a legendary American college football coach best known for transforming Florida State University into a national powerhouse and winning two national championships.
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C.
Tyrone Willingham
Tyrone Willingham is an American football coach best known for leading major college programs including Stanford, Notre Dame, and Washington.
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D.
Lloyd Carr
Lloyd Carr is an American football coach best known for leading the University of Michigan Wolverines to consistent success, including a share of the 1997 national championship.
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E.
Les Miles
Les Miles is an American college football coach best known for leading LSU to a national championship and for his colorful, unconventional coaching style.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
band
ⓘ
bassist ⓘ human ⓘ musician ⓘ |
| activeInDecade | 1980s ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| genre | noise rock ⓘ |
| knownFor | being bassist of Big Black ⓘ |
| memberOf | Big Black NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| occupation |
bassist
ⓘ
musician ⓘ |
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 Riley Description of subject: Dave Riley was an American bassist best known for his work with the influential noise rock band Big Black in the 1980s.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Model (Big Black song)