David Mason
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David Mason is known primarily as the former husband of Elaine Mason, who was later married to physicist Stephen Hawking.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Mason canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7052996 — 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 Mason Context triple: [Elaine Mason, spouse, David Mason]
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A.
John Patrick Mason
John Patrick Mason is a former British SAS captain and imprisoned spy who becomes an unlikely ally in the 1996 action film "The Rock."
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B.
Steve Mason
Steve Mason is a cinematographer known for his work on feature films, including the crime thriller "The Bag Man."
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C.
Rick Mason
Rick Mason is a supporting character in Marvel's Black Widow, portrayed as a resourceful fixer and ally who helps Natasha Romanoff with equipment, identities, and logistics.
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D.
Tom Mason
Tom Mason is the former history professor turned resistance leader who serves as the central protagonist in the post-apocalyptic alien invasion series "Falling Skies."
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E.
Tim Bagley
Tim Bagley is an American character actor and comedian known for his numerous supporting roles in film and television, including appearances in popular comedies throughout the 1990s and 2000s.
- 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 Mason Target entity description: David Mason is known primarily as the former husband of Elaine Mason, who was later married to physicist Stephen Hawking.
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A.
John Patrick Mason
John Patrick Mason is a former British SAS captain and imprisoned spy who becomes an unlikely ally in the 1996 action film "The Rock."
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B.
Steve Mason
Steve Mason is a cinematographer known for his work on feature films, including the crime thriller "The Bag Man."
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C.
Rick Mason
Rick Mason is a supporting character in Marvel's Black Widow, portrayed as a resourceful fixer and ally who helps Natasha Romanoff with equipment, identities, and logistics.
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D.
Tom Mason
Tom Mason is the former history professor turned resistance leader who serves as the central protagonist in the post-apocalyptic alien invasion series "Falling Skies."
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E.
Tim Bagley
Tim Bagley is an American character actor and comedian known for his numerous supporting roles in film and television, including appearances in popular comedies throughout the 1990s and 2000s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (7)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
person
ⓘ
physicist ⓘ |
| name | David Mason ⓘ |
| spouse |
David Mason
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Elaine Mason ⓘ Elaine Mason ⓘ Stephen Hawking ⓘ |
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 Mason Description of subject: David Mason is known primarily as the former husband of Elaine Mason, who was later married to physicist Stephen Hawking.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.