David Ragan
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David Ragan is an American professional stock car racing driver best known for his career in the NASCAR Cup Series, including stints with Roush Fenway Racing and Front Row Motorsports.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Ragan canonical | 2 |
| David Lee Ragan | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12243764 — 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 Ragan Context triple: [No. 6, alsoAssociatedWithDriver, David Ragan]
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A.
Ryan Newman
Ryan Newman is an American professional stock car racing driver known for his long NASCAR Cup Series career, including successful stints with top teams and a reputation for strong qualifying performances.
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B.
Jeff Gordon
Jeff Gordon is a retired American NASCAR driver and four-time Cup Series champion who became a prominent racing analyst and broadcaster.
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C.
Jeff Burton
Jeff Burton was an American character actor known for his supporting roles in mid-20th-century films and television, including an appearance in the original 1968 science fiction classic "Planet of the Apes."
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D.
Jeff Burton
Jeff Burton is an American former NASCAR Cup Series driver known for his long and successful career, particularly with Roush Fenway Racing, and for his reputation as a consistent competitor and respected veteran of the sport.
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E.
Matt Kenseth
Matt Kenseth is an American NASCAR driver and 2003 Cup Series champion known for his consistency and success in stock car racing.
- 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 Ragan Target entity description: David Ragan is an American professional stock car racing driver best known for his career in the NASCAR Cup Series, including stints with Roush Fenway Racing and Front Row Motorsports.
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A.
Ryan Newman
Ryan Newman is an American professional stock car racing driver known for his long NASCAR Cup Series career, including successful stints with top teams and a reputation for strong qualifying performances.
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B.
Jeff Gordon
Jeff Gordon is a retired American NASCAR driver and four-time Cup Series champion who became a prominent racing analyst and broadcaster.
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C.
Jeff Burton
Jeff Burton was an American character actor known for his supporting roles in mid-20th-century films and television, including an appearance in the original 1968 science fiction classic "Planet of the Apes."
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D.
Jeff Burton
Jeff Burton is an American former NASCAR Cup Series driver known for his long and successful career, particularly with Roush Fenway Racing, and for his reputation as a consistent competitor and respected veteran of the sport.
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E.
Matt Kenseth
Matt Kenseth is an American NASCAR driver and 2003 Cup Series champion known for his consistency and success in stock car racing.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NASCAR driver
ⓘ
NASCAR driver ⓘ human ⓘ stock car racing driver ⓘ |
| activeInDecade |
2000s
ⓘ
2010s ⓘ 2020s ⓘ |
| basedIn |
North Carolina, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
North Carolina
|
| carNumber |
18
ⓘ
34 ⓘ 38 ⓘ 55 ⓘ 6 ⓘ |
| competedIn |
NASCAR Camping World Truck Series
ⓘ
linked to:
NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series
NASCAR Xfinity Series ⓘ |
| competesIn | NASCAR Cup Series ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1985-12-24 ⓘ |
| familyName | Ragan ⓘ |
| fullName |
David Lee Ragan
ⓘ
linked to:
David Ragan
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | David ⓘ |
| hasCarMakeDriven |
Chevrolet
ⓘ
Ford ⓘ Toyota ⓘ
linked to:
Toyota Motor Corporation
|
| hasRole |
part-time NASCAR driver
ⓘ
test driver ⓘ |
| isFrom |
Georgia, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Georgia
|
| language | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | NASCAR Cup Series superspeedway victories ⓘ |
| notableWin |
2011 Coke Zero 400 at Daytona International Speedway
ⓘ
linked to:
Coke Zero Sugar 400
2013 Aaron's 499 at Talladega Superspeedway ⓘ
linked to:
Talladega Superspeedway Cup race
|
| occupation | racing driver ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Daytona 500
ⓘ
Talladega Superspeedway races ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Unadilla, Georgia, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Unadilla, Georgia
|
| racingLicense | NASCAR competition license ⓘ |
| relative | Ken Ragan ⓘ |
| seriesDebut | NASCAR Cup Series ⓘ |
| sport | stock car racing ⓘ |
| team |
Front Row Motorsports
ⓘ
Joe Gibbs Racing ⓘ Michael Waltrip Racing ⓘ Roush Fenway Racing ⓘ
linked to:
NASCAR team Roush Fenway Racing
|
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 Ragan Description of subject: David Ragan is an American professional stock car racing driver best known for his career in the NASCAR Cup Series, including stints with Roush Fenway Racing and Front Row Motorsports.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: David Ragan