David James Mattis
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David James Mattis was an American music executive and entrepreneur best known for co-founding the influential rhythm and blues label Duke Records in the early 1950s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David James Mattis canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7506702 — 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 James Mattis Context triple: [Duke Records, foundedBy, David James Mattis]
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A.
James N. Mattis
James N. Mattis is a retired U.S. Marine Corps four-star general and former U.S. Secretary of Defense known for his leadership in major Middle Eastern conflicts and his reputation as a strategic military thinker.
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B.
H. R. McMaster
H. R. McMaster is a retired U.S. Army lieutenant general, military historian, and former National Security Advisor known for his critical analysis of U.S. military strategy and leadership.
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C.
George J. Tenet
George J. Tenet is an American intelligence official who served as the head of the CIA during the late 1990s and early 2000s, including the period surrounding the September 11 attacks and the lead-up to the Iraq War.
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D.
Michael Mullen
Michael Mullen is a retired United States Navy admiral who served as the 17th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the highest-ranking officer in the U.S. Armed Forces.
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E.
Harry Harris
Harry Harris is the child of Eliza Harris, a figure primarily identifiable through this parental relationship.
- 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 James Mattis Target entity description: David James Mattis was an American music executive and entrepreneur best known for co-founding the influential rhythm and blues label Duke Records in the early 1950s.
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A.
James N. Mattis
James N. Mattis is a retired U.S. Marine Corps four-star general and former U.S. Secretary of Defense known for his leadership in major Middle Eastern conflicts and his reputation as a strategic military thinker.
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B.
H. R. McMaster
H. R. McMaster is a retired U.S. Army lieutenant general, military historian, and former National Security Advisor known for his critical analysis of U.S. military strategy and leadership.
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C.
George J. Tenet
George J. Tenet is an American intelligence official who served as the head of the CIA during the late 1990s and early 2000s, including the period surrounding the September 11 attacks and the lead-up to the Iraq War.
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D.
Michael Mullen
Michael Mullen is a retired United States Navy admiral who served as the 17th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the highest-ranking officer in the U.S. Armed Forces.
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E.
Harry Harris
Harry Harris is the child of Eliza Harris, a figure primarily identifiable through this parental relationship.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
entrepreneur
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human ⓘ music executive ⓘ record label ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod |
1950s
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20th century ⓘ |
| associatedWithLabel | Duke Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coFounded | Duke Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Black Americans
ⓘ
surface form:
African American
|
| fieldOfWork |
music industry
ⓘ
rhythm and blues ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
David James Mattis
NERFINISHED
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Don Robey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundedInCollaborationWith | Don Robey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | rhythm and blues ⓘ |
| genreSpecialization | rhythm and blues ⓘ |
| inception | early 1950s ⓘ |
| industry |
entertainment
ⓘ
music ⓘ |
| knownFor | co-founding Duke Records ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork | Duke Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
entrepreneur
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music executive ⓘ record label founder ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
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 James Mattis Description of subject: David James Mattis was an American music executive and entrepreneur best known for co-founding the influential rhythm and blues label Duke Records in the early 1950s.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.