David Bonior
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David Bonior is an American Democratic politician who represented Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives for over two decades and served in key party leadership roles.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Bonior canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4205124 — 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 Bonior Context triple: [106th United States Congress, hasHouseMinorityWhip, David Bonior]
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A.
David Frank
David Frank is a music producer best known for his work on Christina Aguilera’s hit single "Genie in a Bottle."
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B.
David Sullivan
David Sullivan is a British businessman and former pornography and media magnate best known as the co-owner and long-serving chairman of Premier League football club West Ham United.
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C.
Michael Potts
Michael Potts is an American actor known for his work in film, television, and theater, including notable roles in projects like "The Wire," "True Detective," and various Broadway productions.
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D.
Andrew Barrer
Andrew Barrer is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the Marvel superhero film "Ant-Man and the Wasp."
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E.
John Eisendrath
John Eisendrath is a television writer and producer best known for his work on series such as "The Blacklist" and "Alias."
- 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 Bonior Target entity description: David Bonior is an American Democratic politician who represented Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives for over two decades and served in key party leadership roles.
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A.
David Frank
David Frank is a music producer best known for his work on Christina Aguilera’s hit single "Genie in a Bottle."
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B.
David Sullivan
David Sullivan is a British businessman and former pornography and media magnate best known as the co-owner and long-serving chairman of Premier League football club West Ham United.
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C.
Michael Potts
Michael Potts is an American actor known for his work in film, television, and theater, including notable roles in projects like "The Wire," "True Detective," and various Broadway productions.
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D.
Andrew Barrer
Andrew Barrer is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the Marvel superhero film "Ant-Man and the Wasp."
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E.
John Eisendrath
John Eisendrath is a television writer and producer best known for his work on series such as "The Blacklist" and "Alias."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American politician
ⓘ
Democratic Party politician ⓘ human ⓘ |
| advocatedFor |
civil rights
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labor rights ⓘ working-class issues ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| electionParticipatedIn | 2002 Michigan gubernatorial election ⓘ |
| familyName | Bonior NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | David NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| heldLeadershipRole |
Chief Deputy Whip
ⓘ
House Minority Whip NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| legislativeBody | United States House of Representatives ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty |
Democratic Party
ⓘ
surface form:
Democratic Party (United States)
|
| name | David Bonior NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Democratic Party leadership in the House
ⓘ
long tenure in the U.S. House of Representatives ⓘ |
| officeEndTime | 2003 ⓘ |
| officeStartTime | 1977 ⓘ |
| opposed | North American Free Trade Agreement NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | liberal ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
House Minority Whip
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Member of the United States House of Representatives ⓘ |
| profession | politician ⓘ |
| ranForOffice | Governor of Michigan ⓘ |
| representedDistrict |
Michigan's 10th congressional district
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Michigan's 12th congressional district NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedIn | House Democratic leadership ⓘ |
| stateRepresented | Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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 Bonior Description of subject: David Bonior is an American Democratic politician who represented Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives for over two decades and served in key party leadership roles.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.