Malik Izaak Taylor
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Malik Izaak Taylor, better known as Phife Dawg, was an American rapper and a founding member of the influential hip hop group A Tribe Called Quest.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Malik Izaak Taylor canonical | 1 |
| Malik Taylor | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8634338 — 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: Malik Izaak Taylor Context triple: [Phife Dawg, birthName, Malik Izaak Taylor]
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A.
Jayceon Terrell Taylor
Jayceon Terrell Taylor is an American rapper better known by his stage name The Game, recognized for his influential role in West Coast hip hop.
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B.
Marlon Taylor
Marlon Taylor is an American former child actor best known for playing young Mike Hanlon in the 1990 television miniseries adaptation of Stephen King’s "It."
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C.
Ahmir Thompson
Ahmir Thompson, better known as Questlove, is an American drummer, producer, and bandleader of The Roots, acclaimed for his influential role in hip-hop and neo-soul music.
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D.
Isaiah Rogers
Isaiah Rogers was a prominent 19th-century American architect known for pioneering hotel design and contributing major public buildings in the United States.
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E.
Dijon Isaiah McFarlane
Dijon Isaiah McFarlane, better known as DJ Mustard, is an American record producer and DJ recognized for his influential, minimalist West Coast hip hop and club-oriented sound.
- 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: Malik Izaak Taylor Target entity description: Malik Izaak Taylor, better known as Phife Dawg, was an American rapper and a founding member of the influential hip hop group A Tribe Called Quest.
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A.
Jayceon Terrell Taylor
Jayceon Terrell Taylor is an American rapper better known by his stage name The Game, recognized for his influential role in West Coast hip hop.
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B.
Marlon Taylor
Marlon Taylor is an American former child actor best known for playing young Mike Hanlon in the 1990 television miniseries adaptation of Stephen King’s "It."
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C.
Ahmir Thompson
Ahmir Thompson, better known as Questlove, is an American drummer, producer, and bandleader of The Roots, acclaimed for his influential role in hip-hop and neo-soul music.
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D.
Isaiah Rogers
Isaiah Rogers was a prominent 19th-century American architect known for pioneering hotel design and contributing major public buildings in the United States.
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E.
Dijon Isaiah McFarlane
Dijon Isaiah McFarlane, better known as DJ Mustard, is an American record producer and DJ recognized for his influential, minimalist West Coast hip hop and club-oriented sound.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
rapper ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 2016 ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1985 ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Phife
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Five-Foot Assassin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Ali Shaheed Muhammad
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jarobi White NERFINISHED ⓘ Native Tongues collective NERFINISHED ⓘ Q-Tip NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Malik Izaak Taylor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | complications from diabetes ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1970-11-20 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2016-03-22 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Black Americans
ⓘ
surface form:
African American
|
| familyName | Taylor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
alternative hip hop
ⓘ
hip hop ⓘ jazz rap ⓘ |
| givenName | Malik NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMember | Malik Izaak Taylor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| height | approximately 5 feet 3 inches ⓘ |
| influencedGenre |
alternative hip hop
ⓘ
jazz rap ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | A Tribe Called Quest NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAlias |
Phife Dawg
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Five-Foot Assassin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Beats, Rhymes and Life
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Midnight Marauders NERFINISHED ⓘ People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm NERFINISHED ⓘ The Love Movement NERFINISHED ⓘ The Low End Theory NERFINISHED ⓘ Ventilation: Da LP NERFINISHED ⓘ We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
rapper
ⓘ
songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
New York City
ⓘ
Queens NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Oakland, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| residence | Queens, New York City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stageName | Phife Dawg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Malik Izaak Taylor Description of subject: Malik Izaak Taylor, better known as Phife Dawg, was an American rapper and a founding member of the influential hip hop group A Tribe Called Quest.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Malik Taylor