David Lindley
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David Lindley was an American multi-instrumentalist and singer best known for his distinctive slide guitar work and long-running collaboration with Jackson Browne, as well as for leading the band El Rayo-X.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Lindley canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1786259 — 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 Lindley Context triple: [Jackson Browne, associatedAct, David Lindley]
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David L. Goodstein
David L. Goodstein is an American physicist and educator known for his work in condensed matter physics, science education, and authorship of popular science books.
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David Reedy
David Reedy was one of the original New York stockbrokers who helped found what became the New York Stock Exchange by signing the 1792 Buttonwood Agreement.
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C.
David Slepian
David Slepian was an American mathematician and electrical engineer known for his influential work in information theory and communications, including the development of the Slepian–Wolf coding theorem.
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D.
Dorion Sagan
Dorion Sagan is an American science writer and essayist known for his works on evolution, ecology, and complexity, and for coauthoring influential books with his mother, biologist Lynn Margulis.
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E.
Ben Selvin
Ben Selvin was an American bandleader and prolific recording artist of the early 20th century, often called the "Dean of Recorded Music" for his vast output during the jazz and dance band eras.
- 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 Lindley Target entity description: David Lindley was an American multi-instrumentalist and singer best known for his distinctive slide guitar work and long-running collaboration with Jackson Browne, as well as for leading the band El Rayo-X.
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A.
David L. Goodstein
David L. Goodstein is an American physicist and educator known for his work in condensed matter physics, science education, and authorship of popular science books.
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B.
David Reedy
David Reedy was one of the original New York stockbrokers who helped found what became the New York Stock Exchange by signing the 1792 Buttonwood Agreement.
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C.
David Slepian
David Slepian was an American mathematician and electrical engineer known for his influential work in information theory and communications, including the development of the Slepian–Wolf coding theorem.
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D.
Dorion Sagan
Dorion Sagan is an American science writer and essayist known for his works on evolution, ecology, and complexity, and for coauthoring influential books with his mother, biologist Lynn Margulis.
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E.
Ben Selvin
Ben Selvin was an American bandleader and prolific recording artist of the early 20th century, often called the "Dean of Recorded Music" for his vast output during the jazz and dance band eras.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
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 Lindley Description of subject: David Lindley was an American multi-instrumentalist and singer best known for his distinctive slide guitar work and long-running collaboration with Jackson Browne, as well as for leading the band El Rayo-X.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.