David Hood
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bassist
human
member of musical ensemble
music production style
musician
record producer
studio band
David Hood is an American bassist, producer, and member of the famed Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, central to the development of the Muscle Shoals sound in popular music.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Hood canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4355284 — 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 Hood Context triple: [Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, foundedBy, David Hood]
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A.
Paul Hood
Paul Hood is the introspective teenage son in Rick Moody's novel and its film adaptation "The Ice Storm," whose experiences reflect the emotional disconnection and turmoil of his suburban 1970s family.
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B.
Lee Eastman
Lee Eastman was an American entertainment lawyer best known for representing and advising Paul McCartney and other prominent musicians.
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C.
Joel McNeely
Joel McNeely is an American composer and conductor best known for his work on film and television scores, including numerous projects for Disney and other major studios.
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D.
Keith Crouch
Keith Crouch is an American R&B songwriter and record producer best known for his work on Brandy’s early hits and other 1990s soul and gospel projects.
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E.
Don Maynard
Don Maynard was a Hall of Fame American football wide receiver best known as Joe Namath’s primary deep threat and a key offensive star for the New York Jets during the 1960s.
- 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 Hood Target entity description: David Hood is an American bassist, producer, and member of the famed Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, central to the development of the Muscle Shoals sound in popular music.
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A.
Paul Hood
Paul Hood is the introspective teenage son in Rick Moody's novel and its film adaptation "The Ice Storm," whose experiences reflect the emotional disconnection and turmoil of his suburban 1970s family.
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B.
Lee Eastman
Lee Eastman was an American entertainment lawyer best known for representing and advising Paul McCartney and other prominent musicians.
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C.
Joel McNeely
Joel McNeely is an American composer and conductor best known for his work on film and television scores, including numerous projects for Disney and other major studios.
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D.
Keith Crouch
Keith Crouch is an American R&B songwriter and record producer best known for his work on Brandy’s early hits and other 1990s soul and gospel projects.
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E.
Don Maynard
Don Maynard was a Hall of Fame American football wide receiver best known as Joe Namath’s primary deep threat and a key offensive star for the New York Jets during the 1960s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bassist
ⓘ
human ⓘ member of musical ensemble ⓘ music production style ⓘ musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ studio band ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1960s ⓘ |
| basedIn | Alabama ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
African American
ⓘ
linked to:
Black Americans
|
| fieldOfWork |
popular music
ⓘ
record production ⓘ |
| genre |
R&B
ⓘ
pop music ⓘ rock music ⓘ soul music ⓘ |
| hasCollaboratedWith |
Aretha Franklin
ⓘ
Bob Seger ⓘ Cher ⓘ Etta James ⓘ Paul Simon ⓘ Rod Stewart ⓘ The Staple Singers ⓘ Traffic ⓘ Willie Nelson ⓘ Wilson Pickett ⓘ |
| instrument | bass guitar ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| location |
Muscle Shoals, Alabama
ⓘ
Sheffield, Alabama ⓘ |
| locationOfOrigin | Muscle Shoals, Alabama ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section
ⓘ
The Swampers ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being a core member of the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section
ⓘ
contributing to the Muscle Shoals sound ⓘ shaping American popular music through studio work in Muscle Shoals ⓘ |
| notableWork | session work on classic soul and R&B recordings from the 1960s and 1970s ⓘ |
| occupation |
bassist
ⓘ
record producer ⓘ session musician ⓘ |
| partOf |
Muscle Shoals sound
ⓘ
linked to:
Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section
|
| placeOfWork |
FAME Studios
ⓘ
Muscle Shoals Sound Studio ⓘ |
| residence | Alabama ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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 Hood Description of subject: David Hood is an American bassist, producer, and member of the famed Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, central to the development of the Muscle Shoals sound in popular music.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.