David Taylor
E241639
David Taylor is a songwriter credited as one of the writers of Beyoncé’s hit empowerment anthem “Run the World (Girls).”
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Taylor canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2159744 — 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 Taylor Context triple: [Run the World (Girls), writer, David Taylor]
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A.
Matthew Taylor
Matthew Taylor is a British political strategist and policy expert best known for serving as Chief Executive of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) and as a former head of the Number 10 Policy Unit under Prime Minister Tony Blair.
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B.
Brian Taylor
Brian Taylor is known as the former long-term partner of acclaimed British actor Sir Ian McKellen.
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C.
Duncan Henderson
Duncan Henderson was an American film producer and production manager known for his work on major Hollywood films including "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World."
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D.
Andrew Humphrey
Andrew Humphrey was a senior Royal Air Force officer who rose to become Chief of the Air Staff and later Chief of the Defence Staff in the United Kingdom.
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E.
William Taylor
William Taylor was an early 18th-century London bookseller and publisher best known for issuing the first edition of Daniel Defoe’s novel "Robinson Crusoe."
- 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 Taylor Target entity description: David Taylor is a songwriter credited as one of the writers of Beyoncé’s hit empowerment anthem “Run the World (Girls).”
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A.
Matthew Taylor
Matthew Taylor is a British political strategist and policy expert best known for serving as Chief Executive of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) and as a former head of the Number 10 Policy Unit under Prime Minister Tony Blair.
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B.
Brian Taylor
Brian Taylor is known as the former long-term partner of acclaimed British actor Sir Ian McKellen.
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C.
Duncan Henderson
Duncan Henderson was an American film producer and production manager known for his work on major Hollywood films including "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World."
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D.
Andrew Humphrey
Andrew Humphrey was a senior Royal Air Force officer who rose to become Chief of the Air Staff and later Chief of the Defence Staff in the United Kingdom.
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E.
William Taylor
William Taylor was an early 18th-century London bookseller and publisher best known for issuing the first edition of Daniel Defoe’s novel "Robinson Crusoe."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (9)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
song
ⓘ
songwriter ⓘ |
| creditedAsSongwriterOn | Run the World (Girls) ⓘ |
| genre |
R&B
ⓘ
dance-pop ⓘ |
| notableWork | Run the World (Girls) ⓘ |
| occupation | songwriter ⓘ |
| performer | Beyoncé ⓘ |
| theme | female empowerment ⓘ |
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 Taylor Description of subject: David Taylor is a songwriter credited as one of the writers of Beyoncé’s hit empowerment anthem “Run the World (Girls).”
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Beyoncé – "Run the World (Girls)"
subject linked to:
Beyoncé – "Run the World (Girls)"