David Brown
E593147
David Brown was an American bassist best known for his work with the Latin rock band Santana during their classic late-1960s and early-1970s period.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Brown canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6380319 — 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 Brown Context triple: [Abraxas, featuresMusician, David Brown]
-
A.
David Brown
David Brown was an American film producer best known for co-producing blockbuster hits such as "Jaws" and "The Sting."
-
B.
David Brown
David Brown was a British industrialist and owner of Aston Martin whose initials were used to designate the company’s iconic “DB” series of sports cars.
-
C.
David Brown
David Brown is a film producer and entrepreneur best known for co-founding the animation company Blue Sky Studios, which created popular computer-animated films such as the Ice Age series.
-
D.
Donald Brown
Donald Brown is a fictional character from the novel and film "National Velvet," known as one of Velvet Brown’s brothers in the Brown family.
-
E.
Karl Brown
Karl Brown was an early American cinematographer and filmmaker known for his pioneering work in the motion picture industry and involvement in establishing professional standards for cinematography.
- 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 Brown Target entity description: David Brown was an American bassist best known for his work with the Latin rock band Santana during their classic late-1960s and early-1970s period.
-
A.
David Brown
David Brown was an American film producer best known for co-producing blockbuster hits such as "Jaws" and "The Sting."
-
B.
David Brown
David Brown is a film producer and entrepreneur best known for co-founding the animation company Blue Sky Studios, which created popular computer-animated films such as the Ice Age series.
-
C.
David Brown
David Brown was a British industrialist and owner of Aston Martin whose initials were used to designate the company’s iconic “DB” series of sports cars.
-
D.
Donald Brown
Donald Brown is a fictional character from the novel and film "National Velvet," known as one of Velvet Brown’s brothers in the Brown family.
-
E.
Karl Brown
Karl Brown was an early American cinematographer and filmmaker known for his pioneering work in the motion picture industry and involvement in establishing professional standards for cinematography.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bassist
ⓘ
human ⓘ musician ⓘ |
| activeIn |
early 1970s
ⓘ
late 1960s ⓘ |
| associatedAct | Carlos Santana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith | San Francisco music scene ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
music performance
ⓘ
popular music ⓘ |
| genre |
Latin rock
ⓘ
rock ⓘ |
| instrument | bass guitar ⓘ |
| knownFor | being the bassist for Santana during their classic period ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Santana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | David Brown NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | United States of America ⓘ |
| notableWork |
performances with Santana in the early 1970s
ⓘ
performances with Santana in the late 1960s ⓘ |
| occupation |
bassist
ⓘ
musician ⓘ |
| partOf | classic Santana lineup ⓘ |
| performerIn | live concerts with Santana ⓘ |
| recordedWith | Santana 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 Brown Description of subject: David Brown was an American bassist best known for his work with the Latin rock band Santana during their classic late-1960s and early-1970s period.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Abraxas
subject surface form:
Santana III
subject surface form:
Santana