David Soul
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David Soul was an American-British actor and singer best known for his role as Detective Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson in the 1970s television series "Starsky & Hutch."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Soul canonical | 7 |
| Deavid Soul | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7516771 — 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 Soul Context triple: [Magnum Force, stars, David Soul]
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A.
Bobby Caldwell
Bobby Caldwell was an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist best known for his smooth blend of R&B, soul, and jazz, particularly the classic hit "What You Won't Do for Love."
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B.
Roy Ayers
Roy Ayers is an American vibraphonist, singer, and composer widely regarded as a pioneer of jazz-funk and acid jazz, known for his smooth grooves and influential 1970s recordings.
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C.
Barry White
Barry White was an American singer, songwriter, and producer famed for his deep, velvety voice and romantic soul and disco hits in the 1970s.
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D.
Peabo Bryson
Peabo Bryson is an American R&B and soul singer best known for his powerful ballads and duets, including several hit Disney movie theme songs.
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E.
Andrew Hill
Andrew Hill was an influential American jazz pianist and composer known for his innovative, avant-garde work on the Blue Note label in the 1960s.
- 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 Soul Target entity description: David Soul was an American-British actor and singer best known for his role as Detective Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson in the 1970s television series "Starsky & Hutch."
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A.
Bobby Caldwell
Bobby Caldwell was an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist best known for his smooth blend of R&B, soul, and jazz, particularly the classic hit "What You Won't Do for Love."
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B.
Roy Ayers
Roy Ayers is an American vibraphonist, singer, and composer widely regarded as a pioneer of jazz-funk and acid jazz, known for his smooth grooves and influential 1970s recordings.
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C.
Barry White
Barry White was an American singer, songwriter, and producer famed for his deep, velvety voice and romantic soul and disco hits in the 1970s.
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D.
Peabo Bryson
Peabo Bryson is an American R&B and soul singer best known for his powerful ballads and duets, including several hit Disney movie theme songs.
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E.
Andrew Hill
Andrew Hill was an influential American jazz pianist and composer known for his innovative, avant-garde work on the Blue Note label in the 1960s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American citizen
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British citizen ⓘ film actor ⓘ human ⓘ musician ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeYearsInCareer | 1960s–2010s ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
Here Come the Brides
NERFINISHED
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Magnum Force NERFINISHED ⓘ Salem’s Lot NERFINISHED ⓘ Starsky & Hutch NERFINISHED ⓘ The Yellow Rose NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | David Richard Solberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | illness ⓘ |
| chartSuccess |
"Don’t Give Up on Us" reached number one on the UK Singles Chart
NERFINISHED
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"Don’t Give Up on Us" reached number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship |
United Kingdom
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| coStarredWith | Paul Michael Glaser NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1943-08-28 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2024-01-04 ⓘ |
| genre |
pop
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soft rock ⓘ |
| knownFor | Starsky & Hutch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| name | David Soul NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality |
American
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British ⓘ |
| notableRole | Detective Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
song "Don’t Give Up on Us"
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
song "Silver Lady" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 6 ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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director ⓘ producer ⓘ singer ⓘ |
| parent | Richard W. Solberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Chicago, Illinois, United States ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | London, England, United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | London, England, United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse |
Julia Nickson
NERFINISHED
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Karen Carlson NERFINISHED ⓘ Miranda Soul NERFINISHED ⓘ Miriam "Mim" Solberg NERFINISHED ⓘ Patricia Pearce NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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 Soul Description of subject: David Soul was an American-British actor and singer best known for his role as Detective Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson in the 1970s television series "Starsky & Hutch."
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Deavid Soul