Donna Weiss
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Donna Weiss is an American songwriter best known for co-writing the hit song "Bette Davis Eyes."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Donna Weiss canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5053092 — 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: Donna Weiss Context triple: [Bette Davis Eyes, originallyWrittenBy, Donna Weiss]
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A.
Donna Moss
Donna Moss is a key fictional character on the television series "The West Wing," known for her role as Josh Lyman’s witty and capable assistant who evolves into a significant political operative.
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B.
Nancy Schafer
Nancy Schafer is a film and television producer known for her work on independent and documentary projects.
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C.
Vicki Sirotta
Vicki Sirotta is a film producer best known for her work on the horror-thriller movie "The Prophecy."
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D.
June Preisser
June Preisser was an American film actress and dancer best known for her energetic supporting roles in 1930s and 1940s Hollywood musicals, often playing peppy, acrobatic teenagers.
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E.
Gail Katz
Gail Katz is an American film and television producer known for working on major Hollywood projects including the disaster drama "The Perfect Storm."
- 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: Donna Weiss Target entity description: Donna Weiss is an American songwriter best known for co-writing the hit song "Bette Davis Eyes."
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A.
Donna Moss
Donna Moss is a key fictional character on the television series "The West Wing," known for her role as Josh Lyman’s witty and capable assistant who evolves into a significant political operative.
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B.
Nancy Schafer
Nancy Schafer is a film and television producer known for her work on independent and documentary projects.
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C.
Vicki Sirotta
Vicki Sirotta is a film producer best known for her work on the horror-thriller movie "The Prophecy."
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D.
June Preisser
June Preisser was an American film actress and dancer best known for her energetic supporting roles in 1930s and 1940s Hollywood musicals, often playing peppy, acrobatic teenagers.
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E.
Gail Katz
Gail Katz is an American film and television producer known for working on major Hollywood projects including the disaster drama "The Perfect Storm."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American songwriter
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singer ⓘ song ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activeInField | music ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Grammy Award for Record of the Year
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Grammy Award for Song of the Year ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | Jackie DeShannon ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| coWrittenBy |
Donna Weiss
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Jackie DeShannon ⓘ |
| coWrote | Bette Davis Eyes ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | songwriting ⓘ |
| genre |
pop music
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pop rock ⓘ rock music ⓘ |
| hasLyricist | Donna Weiss ⓘ |
| hasWorkRecordedBy |
Jackie DeShannon
ⓘ
Kim Carnes ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| madeFamousBy | Kim Carnes ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | co-writing a Grammy-winning hit song ⓘ |
| notableFor | co-writing the song "Bette Davis Eyes" ⓘ |
| notableWork | Bette Davis Eyes ⓘ |
| occupation | songwriter ⓘ |
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: Donna Weiss Description of subject: Donna Weiss is an American songwriter best known for co-writing the hit song "Bette Davis Eyes."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.