David Dolby
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David Dolby is a member of the Dolby family, known as the son of Dagmar Dolby and the late audio technology pioneer Ray Dolby.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Dolby canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T717094 — 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 Dolby Context triple: [Dagmar Dolby, hasChild, David Dolby]
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A.
Ray Dolby
Ray Dolby was an American engineer and inventor best known for pioneering noise reduction and surround sound technologies that revolutionized the audio industry.
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B.
Tom Dolby
Tom Dolby is an American novelist and filmmaker known for works exploring themes of identity, privilege, and LGBTQ+ experience.
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C.
Leonard Bosack
Leonard Bosack is an American computer engineer and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of Cisco Systems, a pioneering company in computer networking and internet infrastructure.
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D.
Robert Karplus
Robert Karplus was an American physicist and influential science educator known for his pioneering work in physics education research and curriculum development.
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E.
Trevor Horn
Trevor Horn is a renowned English record producer, musician, and songwriter known for his influential work in shaping the sound of 1980s pop and new wave music.
- 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 Dolby Target entity description: David Dolby is a member of the Dolby family, known as the son of Dagmar Dolby and the late audio technology pioneer Ray Dolby.
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A.
Ray Dolby
Ray Dolby was an American engineer and inventor best known for pioneering noise reduction and surround sound technologies that revolutionized the audio industry.
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B.
Tom Dolby
Tom Dolby is an American novelist and filmmaker known for works exploring themes of identity, privilege, and LGBTQ+ experience.
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C.
Leonard Bosack
Leonard Bosack is an American computer engineer and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of Cisco Systems, a pioneering company in computer networking and internet infrastructure.
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D.
Robert Karplus
Robert Karplus was an American physicist and influential science educator known for his pioneering work in physics education research and curriculum development.
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E.
Trevor Horn
Trevor Horn is a renowned English record producer, musician, and songwriter known for his influential work in shaping the sound of 1980s pop and new wave music.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| familyName |
Dolby Laboratories
ⓘ
surface form:
Dolby
|
| givenName | David ⓘ |
| hasChild |
David Dolby
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
David Dolby self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| hasFather | Ray Dolby ⓘ |
| hasMother | Dagmar Dolby ⓘ |
| memberOf | Dolby family ⓘ |
| notableRelative |
Dagmar Dolby
ⓘ
Ray Dolby ⓘ |
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 Dolby Description of subject: David Dolby is a member of the Dolby family, known as the son of Dagmar Dolby and the late audio technology pioneer Ray Dolby.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Ray Dolby
subject surface form:
Dagmar Dolby