David Key
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David Key was a 19th-century American politician who served as U.S. Postmaster General under President Rutherford B. Hayes and later as a federal judge.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Key canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T741435 — 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 Key Context triple: [Key, hasNotableBearer, David Key]
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A.
Greg Kouri
Greg Kouri was a Canadian entrepreneur and early investor best known for co-founding Zip2 alongside Elon and Kimbal Musk.
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B.
Stephen E. Smith
Stephen E. Smith was an American businessman and political strategist closely associated with the Kennedy family, notably serving as a key adviser and organizer in their political campaigns.
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C.
David Kirkpatrick
David Kirkpatrick is an American technology journalist and author best known for his book "The Facebook Effect," which chronicles the rise and impact of Facebook.
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D.
William Broyles Jr.
William Broyles Jr. is an American screenwriter and former journalist best known for writing acclaimed films such as "Apollo 13" and "Cast Away."
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E.
Brennan Huff
Brennan Huff is the immature, unemployed man-child portrayed by Will Ferrell in the comedy film "Step Brothers."
- 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 Key Target entity description: David Key was a 19th-century American politician who served as U.S. Postmaster General under President Rutherford B. Hayes and later as a federal judge.
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A.
Greg Kouri
Greg Kouri was a Canadian entrepreneur and early investor best known for co-founding Zip2 alongside Elon and Kimbal Musk.
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B.
Stephen E. Smith
Stephen E. Smith was an American businessman and political strategist closely associated with the Kennedy family, notably serving as a key adviser and organizer in their political campaigns.
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C.
David Kirkpatrick
David Kirkpatrick is an American technology journalist and author best known for his book "The Facebook Effect," which chronicles the rise and impact of Facebook.
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D.
William Broyles Jr.
William Broyles Jr. is an American screenwriter and former journalist best known for writing acclaimed films such as "Apollo 13" and "Cast Away."
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E.
Brennan Huff
Brennan Huff is the immature, unemployed man-child portrayed by Will Ferrell in the comedy film "Step Brothers."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
judge ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| appointedBy | Rutherford B. Hayes ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer |
United States government
ⓘ
surface form:
Government of the United States
|
| familyName | Key ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
law
ⓘ
postal service administration ⓘ public administration ⓘ |
| genre | politics ⓘ |
| givenName | David ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty | Democratic Party ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Service as U.S. Postmaster General under President Rutherford B. Hayes
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Service as a United States federal judge ⓘ |
| occupation |
judge
ⓘ
lawyer ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| officeContested | United States Senate seat from Tennessee ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Postmaster General of the United States
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surface form:
United States Postmaster General
United States federal judge ⓘ United States senator ⓘ |
| residence | Tennessee ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Tennessee
ⓘ
Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
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 Key Description of subject: David Key was a 19th-century American politician who served as U.S. Postmaster General under President Rutherford B. Hayes and later as a federal judge.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.