David Ivor Davies
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actor
composer
human
musical theatre composer
playwright
screenwriter
silent film actor
singer
songwriter
stage actor
David Ivor Davies, better known as Ivor Novello, was a prominent early 20th-century Welsh composer, singer, and actor famed for his popular songs and contributions to musical theatre.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Ivor Davies canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4501558 — 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 Ivor Davies Context triple: [Ivor Novello, fullName, David Ivor Davies]
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A.
Dafydd Wigley
Dafydd Wigley is a Welsh politician and former leader of Plaid Cymru who served as a Member of Parliament and later as a member of the House of Lords, known for his advocacy of Welsh devolution and social justice.
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B.
John Davies
John Davies was a British Conservative politician and businessman who served in senior government roles during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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C.
Albert Rees
Albert Rees was an American labor economist known for his influential work on wage determination and labor markets, as well as for mentoring prominent economists such as James Heckman.
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D.
John Parry
John Parry is a former NFL official who served as the head referee in multiple Super Bowls and was known for his long career in professional football officiating.
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E.
Jack Davies
Jack Davies was a British screenwriter and script editor known for his work on numerous mid-20th-century films and television productions.
- 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 Ivor Davies Target entity description: David Ivor Davies, better known as Ivor Novello, was a prominent early 20th-century Welsh composer, singer, and actor famed for his popular songs and contributions to musical theatre.
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A.
Dafydd Wigley
Dafydd Wigley is a Welsh politician and former leader of Plaid Cymru who served as a Member of Parliament and later as a member of the House of Lords, known for his advocacy of Welsh devolution and social justice.
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B.
John Davies
John Davies was a British Conservative politician and businessman who served in senior government roles during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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C.
Albert Rees
Albert Rees was an American labor economist known for his influential work on wage determination and labor markets, as well as for mentoring prominent economists such as James Heckman.
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D.
John Parry
John Parry is a former NFL official who served as the head referee in multiple Super Bowls and was known for his long career in professional football officiating.
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E.
Jack Davies
Jack Davies was a British screenwriter and script editor known for his work on numerous mid-20th-century films and television productions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (60)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
ⓘ
composer ⓘ human ⓘ musical theatre composer ⓘ playwright ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ silent film actor ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ stage actor ⓘ |
| activeYearsEndYear | 1951 ⓘ |
| activeYearsStartYear | 1910 ⓘ |
| awardNamedAfter | Laurence Olivier Award for Best Musical Revival (Ivor Novello Awards precursor) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | David Ivor Davies NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Golders Green Crematorium NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | coronary thrombosis ⓘ |
| citizenship |
British
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth |
United Kingdom
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Wales NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1893-01-15 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1951-03-06 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Maggie Teyte’s singing school NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Welsh ⓘ |
| familyName | Davies NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | David Davies NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
musical theatre
ⓘ
popular music ⓘ |
| givenName |
David
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ivor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEponym | Ivor Novello Awards NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced | British popular song tradition ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mother | Clara Novello Davies NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | British musical theatre in the interwar period ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Glamorous Night
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Keep the Home Fires Burning NERFINISHED ⓘ King’s Rhapsody NERFINISHED ⓘ Perchance to Dream NERFINISHED ⓘ The Dancing Years NERFINISHED ⓘ The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
composer ⓘ playwright ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| partner | Bobbie Andrews NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Cardiff NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
London, England
ⓘ
surface form:
London
|
| residence |
Cardiff
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
London, England ⓘ
surface form:
London
|
| sexualOrientation | gay ⓘ |
| stageName | Ivor Novello NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation | London’s West End NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wroteSong |
Keep the Home Fires Burning
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
My Dearest Dear NERFINISHED ⓘ Rose of England NERFINISHED ⓘ Someday My Heart Will Awake NERFINISHED ⓘ We’ll Gather Lilacs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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 Ivor Davies Description of subject: David Ivor Davies, better known as Ivor Novello, was a prominent early 20th-century Welsh composer, singer, and actor famed for his popular songs and contributions to musical theatre.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.