David Paton
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David Paton is a Scottish bassist, singer, and songwriter best known as the frontman of the band Pilot and for his work with artists such as Elton John and Kate Bush.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Paton canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9056596 — 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 Paton Context triple: [Magic (Pilot song), songwriter, David Paton]
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A.
David Paton
David Paton was a 19th-century architect best known for designing the North Carolina State Capitol in Raleigh.
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B.
Gordon Gunter
Gordon Gunter was a prominent American marine biologist and fisheries scientist known for his influential research on the ecology of the Gulf of Mexico.
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C.
Andrew Craigie
Andrew Craigie was an 18th-century American apothecary and the first Apothecary General of the U.S. Army during the Revolutionary War.
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D.
Bruce McCulloch
Bruce McCulloch is a Canadian actor, writer, and comedian best known as one of the core members of the sketch comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall.
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E.
Duncan Campbell
Duncan Campbell is a British journalist and writer best known for his investigative reporting and his long-term marriage to actress Julie Christie.
- 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 Paton Target entity description: David Paton is a Scottish bassist, singer, and songwriter best known as the frontman of the band Pilot and for his work with artists such as Elton John and Kate Bush.
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A.
David Paton
David Paton was a 19th-century architect best known for designing the North Carolina State Capitol in Raleigh.
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B.
Gordon Gunter
Gordon Gunter was a prominent American marine biologist and fisheries scientist known for his influential research on the ecology of the Gulf of Mexico.
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C.
Andrew Craigie
Andrew Craigie was an 18th-century American apothecary and the first Apothecary General of the U.S. Army during the Revolutionary War.
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D.
Bruce McCulloch
Bruce McCulloch is a Canadian actor, writer, and comedian best known as one of the core members of the sketch comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall.
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E.
Duncan Campbell
Duncan Campbell is a British journalist and writer best known for his investigative reporting and his long-term marriage to actress Julie Christie.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bassist
ⓘ
human ⓘ musician ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Bay City Rollers
NERFINISHED
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Billy Lyall NERFINISHED ⓘ Camel NERFINISHED ⓘ Chris de Burgh NERFINISHED ⓘ Dollar NERFINISHED ⓘ Elton John NERFINISHED ⓘ Fish NERFINISHED ⓘ Kate Bush NERFINISHED ⓘ Pilot NERFINISHED ⓘ Rick Wakeman NERFINISHED ⓘ Stuart Tosh NERFINISHED ⓘ The Alan Parsons Project NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Scotland
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
popular music
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record production ⓘ rock music ⓘ songwriting ⓘ |
| genre |
pop rock
ⓘ
progressive rock ⓘ soft rock ⓘ |
| instrument |
bass guitar
ⓘ
vocals ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Pilot ⓘ |
| notableWork |
January
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Magic NERFINISHED ⓘ session work for Elton John ⓘ session work for Kate Bush ⓘ solo album "Fellow Man" ⓘ solo album "Fragments" ⓘ solo album "Passions" ⓘ solo album "The Search" ⓘ solo album "The Studio Diary" NERFINISHED ⓘ solo album "The Traveller" ⓘ songwriting for Pilot hit "January" ⓘ songwriting for Pilot hit "Magic" ⓘ |
| occupation |
bassist
ⓘ
record producer ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| positionHeld | frontman of Pilot ⓘ |
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 Paton Description of subject: David Paton is a Scottish bassist, singer, and songwriter best known as the frontman of the band Pilot and for his work with artists such as Elton John and Kate Bush.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Magic (Pilot song)