Vincent Ford
E602531
Vincent Ford was a Jamaican songwriter best known for penning Bob Marley’s iconic song “No Woman, No Cry.”
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Vincent Ford canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6584893 — 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: Vincent Ford Context triple: [No Woman, No Cry, writer, Vincent Ford]
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A.
Wallace Ford
Wallace Ford was a British-born American character actor known for his prolific work in Hollywood films from the 1930s through the 1950s, often playing tough, streetwise or everyman roles.
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B.
Warren William
Warren William was an American stage and film actor of the 1930s, best known for his suave, often morally ambiguous leading and supporting roles in Hollywood pre-Code dramas and mysteries.
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C.
Ricardo Cortez
Ricardo Cortez was an American actor of the silent and early sound film era, best known for his leading-man roles in crime dramas and early film noir.
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D.
Roscoe Karns
Roscoe Karns was an American character actor known for his fast-talking, wisecracking roles in classic Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
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E.
Boyd Holbrook
Boyd Holbrook is an American actor and former model known for roles in films like "Logan" and "Gone Girl" and the Netflix series "Narcos."
- 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: Vincent Ford Target entity description: Vincent Ford was a Jamaican songwriter best known for penning Bob Marley’s iconic song “No Woman, No Cry.”
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A.
Wallace Ford
Wallace Ford was a British-born American character actor known for his prolific work in Hollywood films from the 1930s through the 1950s, often playing tough, streetwise or everyman roles.
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B.
Warren William
Warren William was an American stage and film actor of the 1930s, best known for his suave, often morally ambiguous leading and supporting roles in Hollywood pre-Code dramas and mysteries.
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C.
Ricardo Cortez
Ricardo Cortez was an American actor of the silent and early sound film era, best known for his leading-man roles in crime dramas and early film noir.
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D.
Roscoe Karns
Roscoe Karns was an American character actor known for his fast-talking, wisecracking roles in classic Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
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E.
Boyd Holbrook
Boyd Holbrook is an American actor and former model known for roles in films like "Logan" and "Gone Girl" and the Netflix series "Narcos."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Jamaican person
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human ⓘ musician ⓘ song ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Jamaican music scene ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | Bob Marley ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Jamaica
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Jamaica ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Jamaica ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Afro-Jamaican ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
music
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songwriting ⓘ |
| genre |
reggae
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reggae ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Ford ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Vincent ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Vincent Ford ⓘ |
| notableFor | writing the song "No Woman, No Cry" ⓘ |
| notableWork | No Woman, No Cry ⓘ |
| occupation | songwriter ⓘ |
| performer | Bob Marley ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Jamaica ⓘ |
| wrote | No Woman, No Cry ⓘ |
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: Vincent Ford Description of subject: Vincent Ford was a Jamaican songwriter best known for penning Bob Marley’s iconic song “No Woman, No Cry.”
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.