Zowie Bowie
E1034761
Zowie Bowie is the former name of British film director Duncan Jones, best known for directing movies such as "Moon" and being the son of musician David Bowie.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Zowie Bowie canonical | 5 |
| Zowie | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13351854 — 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: Zowie Bowie Context triple: [Duncan Jones, alsoKnownAs, Zowie Bowie]
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A.
Oden Bowie
Oden Bowie was a 19th-century American politician who served as governor of Maryland and for whom the community of Bowie, Maryland is named.
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B.
Bowie
Bowie is a given name most notably associated with Bowie Kuhn, the former Commissioner of Major League Baseball.
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C.
Bowie
Bowie is the young fugitive protagonist of the 1948 American film noir "They Live by Night," whose doomed romance and criminal entanglements drive the story.
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D.
Bowie
Bowie is a surname most famously associated with American frontiersman and folk hero James "Jim" Bowie, known for his role in the Texas Revolution and the Battle of the Alamo.
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E.
Schalk
Schalk is a masculine given name of Afrikaans and Dutch origin, commonly used in South Africa.
- 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: Zowie Bowie Target entity description: Zowie Bowie is the former name of British film director Duncan Jones, best known for directing movies such as "Moon" and being the son of musician David Bowie.
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A.
Oden Bowie
Oden Bowie was a 19th-century American politician who served as governor of Maryland and for whom the community of Bowie, Maryland is named.
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B.
Bowie
Bowie is a given name most notably associated with Bowie Kuhn, the former Commissioner of Major League Baseball.
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C.
Bowie
Bowie is the young fugitive protagonist of the 1948 American film noir "They Live by Night," whose doomed romance and criminal entanglements drive the story.
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D.
Bowie
Bowie is a surname most famously associated with American frontiersman and folk hero James "Jim" Bowie, known for his role in the Texas Revolution and the Battle of the Alamo.
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E.
Schalk
Schalk is a masculine given name of Afrikaans and Dutch origin, commonly used in South Africa.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Zowie Bowie Description of subject: Zowie Bowie is the former name of British film director Duncan Jones, best known for directing movies such as "Moon" and being the son of musician David Bowie.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.