Bowie
E550721
basketball player
fighting knife
folk hero
frontiersman
human
musician
singer-songwriter
soldier
surname
Bowie is a surname most famously associated with American frontiersman and folk hero James "Jim" Bowie, known for his role in the Texas Revolution and the Battle of the Alamo.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bowie canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5846435 — 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: Bowie Context triple: [James Bowie, familyName, Bowie]
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A.
Bowie
Bowie is the young fugitive protagonist of the 1948 American film noir "They Live by Night," whose doomed romance and criminal entanglements drive the story.
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B.
Bowie
Bowie is a given name most notably associated with Bowie Kuhn, the former Commissioner of Major League Baseball.
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C.
David Bowie
David Bowie was an influential English singer, songwriter, and actor renowned for his innovative music, distinctive visual style, and continual reinvention across a five-decade career.
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D.
Oden Bowie
Oden Bowie was a 19th-century American politician who served as governor of Maryland and for whom the community of Bowie, Maryland is named.
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E.
Bryan Ferry
Bryan Ferry is an English singer, songwriter, and former Roxy Music frontman known for his suave vocal style and influential role in art rock and glam rock.
- 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: Bowie Target entity description: Bowie is a surname most famously associated with American frontiersman and folk hero James "Jim" Bowie, known for his role in the Texas Revolution and the Battle of the Alamo.
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A.
Bowie
Bowie is a given name most notably associated with Bowie Kuhn, the former Commissioner of Major League Baseball.
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B.
Bowie
Bowie is the young fugitive protagonist of the 1948 American film noir "They Live by Night," whose doomed romance and criminal entanglements drive the story.
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C.
David Bowie
David Bowie was an influential English singer, songwriter, and actor renowned for his innovative music, distinctive visual style, and continual reinvention across a five-decade career.
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D.
Oden Bowie
Oden Bowie was a 19th-century American politician who served as governor of Maryland and for whom the community of Bowie, Maryland is named.
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E.
Bryan Ferry
Bryan Ferry is an English singer, songwriter, and former Roxy Music frontman known for his suave vocal style and influential role in art rock and glam rock.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
basketball player
ⓘ
fighting knife ⓘ folk hero ⓘ frontiersman ⓘ human ⓘ musician ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ soldier ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| birthDate |
1796-04-10
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1947-01-08 ⓘ |
| birthName | David Robert Jones NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | killed in battle ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United Kingdom
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United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate |
1836-03-06
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2016-01-10 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | American of Scottish descent ⓘ |
| familyName | Bowie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | James ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin |
English
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Irish ⓘ Scottish Gaelic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
David Bowie
NERFINISHED
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James Bowie NERFINISHED ⓘ Sam Bowie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasWeaponNamedAfter | Bowie knife ⓘ |
| militaryRank | colonel ⓘ |
| namedAfter | James Bowie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nickname | Jim Bowie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Battle of the Alamo
NERFINISHED
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Texas Revolution NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Battle of the Alamo
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Texas Revolution NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Brixton, London
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Logan County, Kentucky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
New York City
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San Antonio de Béxar, Mexican Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | San Antonio de Béxar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedIn | Texian forces NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Ursula de Veramendi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stageName | David Bowie 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: Bowie Description of subject: Bowie is a surname most famously associated with American frontiersman and folk hero James "Jim" Bowie, known for his role in the Texas Revolution and the Battle of the Alamo.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.