Des Lee
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Des Lee is an Irish musician best known as a member of the Miami Showband and as one of the few survivors of the notorious 1975 Miami Showband killings during the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Des Lee canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T833098 — 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: Des Lee Context triple: [Miami Showband killings, survivor, Des Lee]
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A.
Wing Lei
Wing Lei is an upscale Chinese fine-dining restaurant at Wynn Las Vegas, renowned for its elegant décor and refined Cantonese cuisine.
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B.
Lila Lee
Lila Lee was a popular American silent film actress of the 1910s and 1920s, known for her girl-next-door charm and roles in major productions of the era.
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C.
Chia-Shun Yih
Chia-Shun Yih was a prominent Chinese-American fluid dynamicist known for his influential theoretical work on hydrodynamic stability and stratified flows.
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D.
Jing Tian
Jing Tian is a Chinese actress known for her roles in both Chinese cinema and Hollywood blockbusters such as "Pacific Rim: Uprising" and "The Great Wall."
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E.
Jin
Jin is a Chinese surname historically associated with the Jewish community of Kaifeng, reflecting their integration into Chinese society while preserving distinct communal identities.
- 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: Des Lee Target entity description: Des Lee is an Irish musician best known as a member of the Miami Showband and as one of the few survivors of the notorious 1975 Miami Showband killings during the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
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A.
Wing Lei
Wing Lei is an upscale Chinese fine-dining restaurant at Wynn Las Vegas, renowned for its elegant décor and refined Cantonese cuisine.
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B.
Lila Lee
Lila Lee was a popular American silent film actress of the 1910s and 1920s, known for her girl-next-door charm and roles in major productions of the era.
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C.
Chia-Shun Yih
Chia-Shun Yih was a prominent Chinese-American fluid dynamicist known for his influential theoretical work on hydrodynamic stability and stratified flows.
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D.
Jing Tian
Jing Tian is a Chinese actress known for her roles in both Chinese cinema and Hollywood blockbusters such as "Pacific Rim: Uprising" and "The Great Wall."
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E.
Jin
Jin is a Chinese surname historically associated with the Jewish community of Kaifeng, reflecting their integration into Chinese society while preserving distinct communal identities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Irish musician
ⓘ
human ⓘ musician ⓘ |
| activeDuring |
The Troubles
ⓘ
surface form:
The Troubles in Northern Ireland
|
| associatedWith |
Irish showband scene
ⓘ
Miami Showband killings ⓘ
surface form:
Miami Showband massacre
|
| conflictContext | The Troubles ⓘ |
| countryOfActivity |
Ireland
ⓘ
Northern Ireland ⓘ |
| dateOfEventSurvived | 1975 ⓘ |
| era | 20th century ⓘ |
| genre | showband ⓘ |
| hasNotability | survivor of a notorious sectarian attack ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being a member of the Miami Showband
ⓘ
being a survivor of the 1975 Miami Showband killings ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Miami Showband ⓘ |
| nationality | Ireland ⓘ |
| notableEvent | Miami Showband killings ⓘ |
| notableWork | performances with the Miami Showband ⓘ |
| occupation | musician ⓘ |
| placeOfEventSurvived | Northern Ireland ⓘ |
| significantEvent | Miami Showband killings ⓘ |
| survivorOf | Miami Showband killings ⓘ |
| victimOf | paramilitary attack on the Miami Showband ⓘ |
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: Des Lee Description of subject: Des Lee is an Irish musician best known as a member of the Miami Showband and as one of the few survivors of the notorious 1975 Miami Showband killings during the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.