David Davis 2016-07-13
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David Davis is a British Conservative politician who served as the first Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, overseeing aspects of the Brexit negotiations under Prime Minister Theresa May.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Davis 2016-07-13 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8051401 — 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 Davis 2016-07-13 Context triple: [Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, officeHolderStart, David Davis 2016-07-13]
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A.
Davis (given name)
Davis is a masculine given name of English origin, often considered a variant of David and used both as a first name and a surname.
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B.
Daniel Davis
Daniel Davis is an American actor best known for his role as the witty butler Niles on the sitcom "The Nanny."
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C.
Ryan Davis
Ryan Davis is a Ruby developer best known for creating the Minitest testing framework.
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D.
David Davis
David Davis was an American television producer and writer best known for co-creating influential sitcoms such as The Bob Newhart Show and Taxi.
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E.
David Davis
David Davis was a 19th-century American jurist and politician who served as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and later as a U.S. Senator from Illinois.
- 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 Davis 2016-07-13 Target entity description: David Davis is a British Conservative politician who served as the first Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, overseeing aspects of the Brexit negotiations under Prime Minister Theresa May.
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A.
Davis (given name)
Davis is a masculine given name of English origin, often considered a variant of David and used both as a first name and a surname.
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B.
Daniel Davis
Daniel Davis is an American actor best known for his role as the witty butler Niles on the sitcom "The Nanny."
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C.
Ryan Davis
Ryan Davis is a Ruby developer best known for creating the Minitest testing framework.
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D.
David Davis
David Davis was an American television producer and writer best known for co-creating influential sitcoms such as The Bob Newhart Show and Taxi.
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E.
David Davis
David Davis was a 19th-century American jurist and politician who served as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and later as a U.S. Senator from Illinois.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British politician
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| appointedBy | Theresa May NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | David Michael Davis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1948-12-23 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Harvard Business School (executive program)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
London Business School NERFINISHED ⓘ University of Warwick NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| endTime (as Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union) | 2018-07-08 ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasOccupation |
business executive
ⓘ
politician ⓘ |
| honorificPrefix | The Right Honourable ⓘ |
| ideology |
Euroscepticism
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
conservatism ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Eurosceptic views
ⓘ
civil liberties advocacy ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| legislativeBody | House of Commons of the United Kingdom ⓘ |
| livesIn | United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty | Conservative Party (UK) ⓘ |
| militaryService | Territorial Army (UK) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | role in Brexit negotiations ⓘ |
| notableWork | campaigning on civil liberties issues ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 3 ⓘ |
| officeContested | Leader of the Conservative Party ⓘ |
| oversaw | aspects of Brexit negotiations ⓘ |
| parliamentaryGroup | Conservative Party (UK) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Yorkshire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Chair of the Conservative Party
ⓘ
Member of Parliament of the United Kingdom ⓘ Minister of State for Europe ⓘ Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union NERFINISHED ⓘ Shadow Home Secretary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reasonForResignation | disagreement with government Brexit strategy ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| resignedFromPosition | Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedAsMPFor |
Boothferry
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Haltemprice and Howden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedInCabinetOf | Theresa May NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Doreen Davis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startTime | 2016-07-13 ⓘ |
| startTime (as Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union) | 2016-07-13 ⓘ |
| workedFor | Tate & Lyle 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 Davis 2016-07-13 Description of subject: David Davis is a British Conservative politician who served as the first Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, overseeing aspects of the Brexit negotiations under Prime Minister Theresa May.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.