Donovan Crosby
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Donovan Crosby is one of the children of the late American singer-songwriter David Crosby, co-founder of The Byrds and Crosby, Stills & Nash.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Donovan Crosby canonical | 4 |
| Django Crosby | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9520526 — 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: Donovan Crosby Context triple: [David Crosby, parentOf, Donovan Crosby]
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A.
Dennis Crosby
Dennis Crosby was an American singer and actor best known as one of Bing Crosby’s sons who performed with his brothers as part of the Crosby family entertainment legacy.
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B.
Floyd Crosby
Floyd Crosby was an Academy Award–winning American cinematographer known for his work on numerous classic films, including influential low-budget horror and science fiction movies.
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C.
Byron Corbett
Byron Corbett is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Corbett.
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D.
King Donovan
King Donovan was an American character actor and director known for his supporting roles in mid-20th-century film and television, including appearances in classic science fiction and Westerns.
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E.
Tony Darrow
Tony Darrow is an American actor best known for his supporting roles as mobsters in films and television, particularly in Martin Scorsese’s crime dramas.
- 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: Donovan Crosby Target entity description: Donovan Crosby is one of the children of the late American singer-songwriter David Crosby, co-founder of The Byrds and Crosby, Stills & Nash.
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A.
Dennis Crosby
Dennis Crosby was an American singer and actor best known as one of Bing Crosby’s sons who performed with his brothers as part of the Crosby family entertainment legacy.
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B.
Floyd Crosby
Floyd Crosby was an Academy Award–winning American cinematographer known for his work on numerous classic films, including influential low-budget horror and science fiction movies.
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C.
Byron Corbett
Byron Corbett is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Corbett.
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D.
King Donovan
King Donovan was an American character actor and director known for his supporting roles in mid-20th-century film and television, including appearances in classic science fiction and Westerns.
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E.
Tony Darrow
Tony Darrow is an American actor best known for his supporting roles as mobsters in films and television, particularly in Martin Scorsese’s crime dramas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American singer-songwriter
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human ⓘ rock band ⓘ |
| child | Donovan Crosby ⓘ |
| childOf | David Crosby ⓘ |
| coFounderOf |
Crosby, Stills & Nash
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The Byrds ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| hasChild | Donovan Crosby ⓘ |
| notableFamilyMember | David Crosby ⓘ |
| occupation |
musician
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singer-songwriter ⓘ |
| parent | David Crosby ⓘ |
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: Donovan Crosby Description of subject: Donovan Crosby is one of the children of the late American singer-songwriter David Crosby, co-founder of The Byrds and Crosby, Stills & Nash.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.