Wesley Pentz
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Wesley Pentz, better known as Diplo, is an American DJ, record producer, and songwriter recognized for his influential work in electronic and pop music.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Wesley Pentz canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2159747 — 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: Wesley Pentz Context triple: [Run the World (Girls), writer, Wesley Pentz]
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A.
Corey Stoll
Corey Stoll is an American actor known for his prominent roles in film and television, including his acclaimed performance as Congressman Peter Russo in the political drama series "House of Cards."
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B.
Casper Van Dien
Casper Van Dien is an American actor best known for his leading role as Johnny Rico in the science fiction film "Starship Troopers."
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C.
Shane Hurlbut
Shane Hurlbut is an American cinematographer known for his work on major Hollywood films and his influential role in advancing digital cinematography techniques.
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D.
Luke Goss
Luke Goss is an English actor and former drummer best known for his roles in genre films such as "Blade II" and "Hellboy II: The Golden Army."
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E.
Frank Grillo
Frank Grillo is an American actor best known for his tough, action-oriented roles in films such as the Purge series and the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
- 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: Wesley Pentz Target entity description: Wesley Pentz, better known as Diplo, is an American DJ, record producer, and songwriter recognized for his influential work in electronic and pop music.
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A.
Corey Stoll
Corey Stoll is an American actor known for his prominent roles in film and television, including his acclaimed performance as Congressman Peter Russo in the political drama series "House of Cards."
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B.
Casper Van Dien
Casper Van Dien is an American actor best known for his leading role as Johnny Rico in the science fiction film "Starship Troopers."
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C.
Shane Hurlbut
Shane Hurlbut is an American cinematographer known for his work on major Hollywood films and his influential role in advancing digital cinematography techniques.
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D.
Luke Goss
Luke Goss is an English actor and former drummer best known for his roles in genre films such as "Blade II" and "Hellboy II: The Golden Army."
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E.
Frank Grillo
Frank Grillo is an American actor best known for his tough, action-oriented roles in films such as the Purge series and the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
DJ
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electronic music artist ⓘ human ⓘ musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Diplo ⓘ |
| basedIn | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
Beyoncé
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Ellie Goulding ⓘ Justin Bieber ⓘ M.I.A. ⓘ Madonna ⓘ Mark Ronson ⓘ Sia ⓘ Skrillex ⓘ Usher ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| founded | Mad Decent ⓘ |
| genre |
dancehall
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electronic dance music ⓘ hip hop music ⓘ moombahton ⓘ pop music ⓘ trap music ⓘ |
| influentialIn |
electronic music
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pop music ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Jack Ü
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LSD ⓘ Major Lazer ⓘ Silk City ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | Grammy Award-winning producer ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Major Lazer
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surface form:
Major Lazer album "Free the Universe"
Major Lazer album "Guns Don't Kill People... Lazers Do" ⓘ Major Lazer album "Peace Is the Mission" ⓘ album "Florida" ⓘ founder of Mad Decent record label ⓘ Lean On ⓘ
surface form:
song "Lean On" with Major Lazer and DJ Snake
song "Paper Planes" production for M.I.A. ⓘ song "Where Are Ü Now" with Skrillex and Justin Bieber ⓘ |
| occupation |
DJ
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music executive ⓘ radio host ⓘ rapper ⓘ record producer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| stageName | Diplo ⓘ |
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: Wesley Pentz Description of subject: Wesley Pentz, better known as Diplo, is an American DJ, record producer, and songwriter recognized for his influential work in electronic and pop music.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.