David Belafonte
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David Belafonte is an American producer and entertainment industry professional, best known as the son of legendary singer, actor, and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Belafonte canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1872479 — 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 Belafonte Context triple: [Harry Belafonte, child, David Belafonte]
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A.
Harry Belafonte
Harry Belafonte was an American singer, actor, and civil rights activist renowned as the "King of Calypso" and a prominent voice in social justice movements.
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B.
Paul Robeson
Paul Robeson was a pioneering African American singer, actor, and civil rights activist whose artistic and political influence made him a central figure of 20th-century Black culture.
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C.
Richie Havens
Richie Havens was an influential American folk singer-songwriter and guitarist, renowned for his soulful voice, rhythmic open-tuned guitar style, and iconic opening performance at the 1969 Woodstock Festival.
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D.
Nina Simone
Nina Simone was an influential American singer, pianist, and civil rights activist renowned for her powerful blend of jazz, blues, classical, and soul music.
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E.
Bobby Robinson
Bobby Robinson is a songwriter best known for his work on the song "Honey."
- 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 Belafonte Target entity description: David Belafonte is an American producer and entertainment industry professional, best known as the son of legendary singer, actor, and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte.
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A.
Harry Belafonte
Harry Belafonte was an American singer, actor, and civil rights activist renowned as the "King of Calypso" and a prominent voice in social justice movements.
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B.
Paul Robeson
Paul Robeson was a pioneering African American singer, actor, and civil rights activist whose artistic and political influence made him a central figure of 20th-century Black culture.
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C.
Richie Havens
Richie Havens was an influential American folk singer-songwriter and guitarist, renowned for his soulful voice, rhythmic open-tuned guitar style, and iconic opening performance at the 1969 Woodstock Festival.
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D.
Nina Simone
Nina Simone was an influential American singer, pianist, and civil rights activist renowned for her powerful blend of jazz, blues, classical, and soul music.
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E.
Bobby Robinson
Bobby Robinson is a songwriter best known for his work on the song "Honey."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
entertainment industry professional
ⓘ
person ⓘ producer ⓘ |
| child | David Belafonte self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Black Americans
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surface form:
African American
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| familyName | Belafonte ⓘ |
| father | Harry Belafonte ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film production
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music-related production ⓘ television production ⓘ |
| givenName | David ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| industry | entertainment industry ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the son of Harry Belafonte ⓘ |
| notableRelative | Harry Belafonte ⓘ |
| occupation |
entertainment executive
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producer ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
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 Belafonte Description of subject: David Belafonte is an American producer and entertainment industry professional, best known as the son of legendary singer, actor, and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Harry Belafonte