David Benoit
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David Benoit is an American contemporary jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader known for his smooth jazz recordings and contributions to modern jazz fusion.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Benoit canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10260458 — 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 Benoit Context triple: [GRP Records, rosterIncludes, David Benoit]
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A.
Michael Bolton
Michael Bolton is an American singer and songwriter known for his powerful, soulful ballads and successful pop and adult contemporary hits, especially in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
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B.
Eddie Money
Eddie Money was an American rock singer and songwriter best known for his hit songs in the late 1970s and 1980s, including “Two Tickets to Paradise” and “Take Me Home Tonight.”
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C.
James DeBarge
James DeBarge is an American R&B singer best known as a member of the family group DeBarge and for his brief, high-profile marriage to Janet Jackson in the 1980s.
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D.
Billy Rich
Billy Rich is a film editor known for his work on major Hollywood productions, including the science fiction naval action movie "Battleship."
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E.
Michael Montgomery
Michael Montgomery is an actor known for his role in the classic "The Twilight Zone" episode "Walking Distance."
- 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 Benoit Target entity description: David Benoit is an American contemporary jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader known for his smooth jazz recordings and contributions to modern jazz fusion.
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A.
Michael Bolton
Michael Bolton is an American singer and songwriter known for his powerful, soulful ballads and successful pop and adult contemporary hits, especially in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
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B.
Eddie Money
Eddie Money was an American rock singer and songwriter best known for his hit songs in the late 1970s and 1980s, including “Two Tickets to Paradise” and “Take Me Home Tonight.”
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C.
James DeBarge
James DeBarge is an American R&B singer best known as a member of the family group DeBarge and for his brief, high-profile marriage to Janet Jackson in the 1980s.
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D.
Billy Rich
Billy Rich is a film editor known for his work on major Hollywood productions, including the science fiction naval action movie "Battleship."
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E.
Michael Montgomery
Michael Montgomery is an actor known for his role in the classic "The Twilight Zone" episode "Walking Distance."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (60)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bandleader
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composer ⓘ human ⓘ jazz pianist ⓘ record producer ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1970s ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1953-08-18 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Bakersfield, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Benoit NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
contemporary jazz
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film scoring ⓘ smooth jazz ⓘ |
| genre |
contemporary jazz
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jazz fusion ⓘ smooth jazz ⓘ |
| givenName | David NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCollaboratedWith |
Al Jarreau
NERFINISHED
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Boney James NERFINISHED ⓘ Brian McKnight NERFINISHED ⓘ CeCe Winans NERFINISHED ⓘ Chris Botti NERFINISHED ⓘ Dave Koz NERFINISHED ⓘ David Sanborn NERFINISHED ⓘ Faith Hill NERFINISHED ⓘ Kenny Loggins NERFINISHED ⓘ Kirk Whalum NERFINISHED ⓘ Lee Ritenour NERFINISHED ⓘ Rick Braun NERFINISHED ⓘ Russ Freeman NERFINISHED ⓘ Take 6 NERFINISHED ⓘ The Asia America Symphony Orchestra NERFINISHED ⓘ The Rippingtons NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNominatedFor | Grammy Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRole |
music director
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orchestra conductor ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Bill Evans
NERFINISHED
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Oscar Peterson NERFINISHED ⓘ Vince Guaraldi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| instrument | piano ⓘ |
| name | David Benoit NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Charlie Brown Theme arrangements
NERFINISHED
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Every Step of the Way NERFINISHED ⓘ Freedom at Midnight NERFINISHED ⓘ Here’s to You, Charlie Brown: 50 Great Years! NERFINISHED ⓘ Inner Motion NERFINISHED ⓘ Letter to Evan NERFINISHED ⓘ Linus and Lucy arrangements NERFINISHED ⓘ Professional Dreamer NERFINISHED ⓘ Shadows NERFINISHED ⓘ Urban Daydreams NERFINISHED ⓘ Waiting for Spring NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
arranger
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composer ⓘ conductor ⓘ pianist ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
GRP
NERFINISHED
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GRP Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Peak Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Verve Records ⓘ |
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 Benoit Description of subject: David Benoit is an American contemporary jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader known for his smooth jazz recordings and contributions to modern jazz fusion.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.