David Robinson
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David Robinson was a British philanthropist and entrepreneur whose substantial donations to the University of Cambridge led to the founding of Robinson College.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Robinson canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1310472 — 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 Robinson Context triple: [Robinson College, Cambridge, namedAfter, David Robinson]
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A.
David Robinson
David Robinson is a Hall of Fame American basketball center who starred for the San Antonio Spurs, winning two NBA championships and an MVP award.
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B.
Kurt Rambis
Kurt Rambis is a former NBA forward best known for his role on the 1980s Los Angeles Lakers championship teams and later work as a coach and executive.
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C.
David Lee
David Lee is a senior Royal Air Force officer who served as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Fighter Command, overseeing the RAF’s fighter aircraft operations.
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D.
Mitch Richmond
Mitch Richmond is a Hall of Fame shooting guard best known for his prolific scoring and six consecutive All-Star appearances in the 1990s NBA.
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E.
Robert Parish
Robert Parish is a Hall of Fame NBA center best known as a key member of the Boston Celtics' 1980s championship teams and for holding the league record for most games played.
- 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 Robinson Target entity description: David Robinson was a British philanthropist and entrepreneur whose substantial donations to the University of Cambridge led to the founding of Robinson College.
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A.
David Robinson
David Robinson is a Hall of Fame American basketball center who starred for the San Antonio Spurs, winning two NBA championships and an MVP award.
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B.
Kurt Rambis
Kurt Rambis is a former NBA forward best known for his role on the 1980s Los Angeles Lakers championship teams and later work as a coach and executive.
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C.
David Lee
David Lee is a senior Royal Air Force officer who served as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Fighter Command, overseeing the RAF’s fighter aircraft operations.
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D.
Mitch Richmond
Mitch Richmond is a Hall of Fame shooting guard best known for his prolific scoring and six consecutive All-Star appearances in the 1990s NBA.
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E.
Robert Parish
Robert Parish is a Hall of Fame NBA center best known as a key member of the Boston Celtics' 1980s championship teams and for holding the league record for most games played.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
constituent college of the University of Cambridge
ⓘ
entrepreneur ⓘ human ⓘ philanthropist ⓘ university ⓘ |
| affiliation |
Cambridge University
ⓘ
surface form:
University of Cambridge
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| associatedWith | Robinson College, Cambridge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United Kingdom
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Great Britain
ⓘ
surface form:
Britain
United Kingdom ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ
surface form:
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
|
| hasFounded | Robinson College, Cambridge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
philanthropy in higher education
ⓘ
support for the University of Cambridge ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Cambridge, England
ⓘ
surface form:
Cambridge
Cambridge, England ⓘ
surface form:
Cambridge
Cambridgeshire, England ⓘ
surface form:
Cambridgeshire
Cambridgeshire, England ⓘ
surface form:
Cambridgeshire
England ⓘ England ⓘ |
| namedAfter | David Robinson self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| notableFor |
founding of Robinson College, Cambridge
ⓘ
substantial donations to the University of Cambridge ⓘ |
| occupation |
entrepreneur
ⓘ
philanthropist ⓘ |
| partOf |
Cambridge University
ⓘ
surface form:
University of Cambridge
|
| significantEvent |
enabled the establishment of Robinson College, Cambridge
ⓘ
made major financial donations to the University of Cambridge ⓘ |
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 Robinson Description of subject: David Robinson was a British philanthropist and entrepreneur whose substantial donations to the University of Cambridge led to the founding of Robinson College.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Robinson College, Cambridge