Douwe Bob
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Douwe Bob is a Dutch singer-songwriter known for his folk and country-influenced pop music and for representing the Netherlands in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Douwe Bob canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7668358 — 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: Douwe Bob Context triple: [Douwe Bob van der Meer, givenName, Douwe Bob]
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A.
Bonny Billy
Bonny Billy is an alias of American singer-songwriter and actor Will Oldham, known for his introspective, genre-blurring indie folk music.
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B.
Whitey
Whitey is the nickname of Hall of Fame New York Yankees pitcher Whitey Ford, one of Major League Baseball’s most successful left-handed pitchers.
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C.
Handsome Bob
Handsome Bob is a stylish, soft-spoken gangster and member of One Two’s crew in Guy Ritchie’s crime film "RocknRolla."
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D.
Jimmy Driftwood
Jimmy Driftwood was an American folk music songwriter and musician best known for his historically themed ballads and contributions to the mid-20th-century folk revival.
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E.
Billy Bickle
Billy Bickle is a volatile yet oddly endearing dog-kidnapper and best friend to the protagonist in the dark comedy crime film "Seven Psychopaths."
- 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: Douwe Bob Target entity description: Douwe Bob is a Dutch singer-songwriter known for his folk and country-influenced pop music and for representing the Netherlands in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016.
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A.
Bonny Billy
Bonny Billy is an alias of American singer-songwriter and actor Will Oldham, known for his introspective, genre-blurring indie folk music.
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B.
Whitey
Whitey is the nickname of Hall of Fame New York Yankees pitcher Whitey Ford, one of Major League Baseball’s most successful left-handed pitchers.
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C.
Handsome Bob
Handsome Bob is a stylish, soft-spoken gangster and member of One Two’s crew in Guy Ritchie’s crime film "RocknRolla."
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D.
Jimmy Driftwood
Jimmy Driftwood was an American folk music songwriter and musician best known for his historically themed ballads and contributions to the mid-20th-century folk revival.
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E.
Billy Bickle
Billy Bickle is a volatile yet oddly endearing dog-kidnapper and best friend to the protagonist in the dark comedy crime film "Seven Psychopaths."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Eurovision Song Contest entrant
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human ⓘ musician ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ |
| activeIn | 21st century ⓘ |
| album |
Born In a Storm
NERFINISHED
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Fool Bar NERFINISHED ⓘ Pass It On NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Netherlands in the Eurovision Song Contest NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Douwe Bob Posthuma NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| competition | Eurovision Song Contest 2016 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Netherlands ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1992-12-12 ⓘ |
| debutAlbum | Born In a Storm NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| eurovisionEntrySong | Slow Down NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| eurovisionHostCity | Stockholm NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| eurovisionHostCountry | Sweden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| eurovisionRepresentedCountry | Netherlands NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| eurovisionYear | 2016 ⓘ |
| familyName | Posthuma NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
country
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folk ⓘ pop ⓘ |
| givenName | Douwe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMusicalStyle |
country-influenced pop
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folk-influenced pop ⓘ |
| instrument |
guitar
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piano ⓘ vocals ⓘ |
| languageOfPerformance | English ⓘ |
| name | Douwe Bob NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | Dutch ⓘ |
| notableWork | Slow Down NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
musician
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singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| performedAt | Eurovision Song Contest 2016 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Amsterdam, Netherlands NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Universal Music Netherlands NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| represented | Netherlands NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Netherlands NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| secondAlbum | Pass It On NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| thirdAlbum | Fool Bar 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: Douwe Bob Description of subject: Douwe Bob is a Dutch singer-songwriter known for his folk and country-influenced pop music and for representing the Netherlands in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Douwe Bob van der Meer