Benoît David
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Benoît David is a Canadian singer best known as the former lead vocalist of the progressive rock band Yes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Benoît David canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5691912 — 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: Benoît David Context triple: [Yes, hasMember, Benoît David]
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A.
Laurent Mauvignier
Laurent Mauvignier is a contemporary French novelist known for his psychologically intense, formally innovative works that often explore trauma, memory, and social marginalization.
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B.
Adrien Manglard
Adrien Manglard was an 18th-century French painter and engraver known for his marine and landscape scenes, influential in the development of French seascape painting.
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C.
Sébastien David
Sébastien David is a French local politician serving as the mayor of the commune of Saint-Affrique in southern France.
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D.
Laurent Lomet
Laurent Lomet was a mountaineer known for participating in the first recorded ascent of Monte Perdido in the Pyrenees.
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E.
Fabien Roussel
Fabien Roussel is a French politician who has served as the national secretary and presidential candidate of the French Communist Party.
- 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: Benoît David Target entity description: Benoît David is a Canadian singer best known as the former lead vocalist of the progressive rock band Yes.
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A.
Laurent Mauvignier
Laurent Mauvignier is a contemporary French novelist known for his psychologically intense, formally innovative works that often explore trauma, memory, and social marginalization.
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B.
Adrien Manglard
Adrien Manglard was an 18th-century French painter and engraver known for his marine and landscape scenes, influential in the development of French seascape painting.
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C.
Sébastien David
Sébastien David is a French local politician serving as the mayor of the commune of Saint-Affrique in southern France.
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D.
Laurent Lomet
Laurent Lomet was a mountaineer known for participating in the first recorded ascent of Monte Perdido in the Pyrenees.
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E.
Fabien Roussel
Fabien Roussel is a French politician who has served as the national secretary and presidential candidate of the French Communist Party.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
musician ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Close to the Edge (Yes tribute band)
ⓘ
Mystery ⓘ Yes ⓘ |
| basedIn |
Quebec
ⓘ
linked to:
Quebec, Canada
|
| countryOfCitizenship | Canada ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Canada ⓘ |
| familyName | David ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | music performance ⓘ |
| genre |
neo-progressive rock
ⓘ
progressive rock ⓘ rock ⓘ |
| givenName | Benoît ⓘ |
| instrument | vocals ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
ⓘ
French ⓘ |
| memberOf | Yes ⓘ |
| name | Benoît David ⓘ |
| nationality | Canadian ⓘ |
| notableFor | being former lead vocalist of Yes ⓘ |
| notableWork |
lead vocalist of Yes
ⓘ
vocalist for Mystery ⓘ |
| occupation |
musician
ⓘ
singer ⓘ |
| partOf | Canadian rock music scene ⓘ |
| performerIn | Yes live tours ⓘ |
| positionHeld | lead vocalist of Yes ⓘ |
| voiceType | tenor ⓘ |
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: Benoît David Description of subject: Benoît David is a Canadian singer best known as the former lead vocalist of the progressive rock band Yes.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.