David Mason
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David Mason is a central protagonist and U.S. Navy SEAL officer in Call of Duty: Black Ops II, known for leading key missions in the game's near-future storyline.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Mason canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11290126 — 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 Mason Context triple: [Call of Duty: Black Ops II, hasCharacter, David Mason]
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A.
David Mason
David Mason is known primarily as the former husband of Elaine Mason, who was later married to physicist Stephen Hawking.
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B.
Philip Mason
Philip Mason, better known by his pen name Philip Woodruff, was a British civil servant and author noted for his influential writings on the British Empire and colonial administration.
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C.
Ron Mason
Ron Mason was a highly successful and influential college ice hockey coach, best known for his long tenure and record-setting achievements in NCAA men’s hockey.
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D.
John Patrick Mason
John Patrick Mason is a former British SAS captain and imprisoned spy who becomes an unlikely ally in the 1996 action film "The Rock."
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E.
Steve Mason
Steve Mason is a cinematographer known for his work on feature films, including the crime thriller "The Bag Man."
- 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 Mason Target entity description: David Mason is a central protagonist and U.S. Navy SEAL officer in Call of Duty: Black Ops II, known for leading key missions in the game's near-future storyline.
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A.
David Mason
David Mason is known primarily as the former husband of Elaine Mason, who was later married to physicist Stephen Hawking.
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B.
Philip Mason
Philip Mason, better known by his pen name Philip Woodruff, was a British civil servant and author noted for his influential writings on the British Empire and colonial administration.
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C.
Ron Mason
Ron Mason was a highly successful and influential college ice hockey coach, best known for his long tenure and record-setting achievements in NCAA men’s hockey.
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D.
John Patrick Mason
John Patrick Mason is a former British SAS captain and imprisoned spy who becomes an unlikely ally in the 1996 action film "The Rock."
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E.
Steve Mason
Steve Mason is a cinematographer known for his work on feature films, including the crime thriller "The Bag Man."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
video game character ⓘ |
| alias | Section ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Call of Duty: Black Ops II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| campaignStructure | branching storyline ⓘ |
| conflict | Second Cold War (fictional) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| continuity | Call of Duty: Black Ops timeline ⓘ |
| familyName | Mason NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Alex Mason NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fightsAgainst | Raul Menendez NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Call of Duty: Black Ops II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| franchise | Call of Duty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gameDeveloper | Treyarch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gameMode | single-player campaign ⓘ |
| gamePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| gamePublisher | Activision NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | first-person shooter ⓘ |
| givenName | David NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDialogue | yes ⓘ |
| homeFranchiseTitle | Call of Duty: Black Ops II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isCommanderOf | strike team in 2025 operations ⓘ |
| leads | key missions in 2025 campaign ⓘ |
| loyalTo |
U.S. Navy
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | video game ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Navy ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | player viewpoint character ⓘ |
| narrativeTheme |
family legacy
ⓘ
revenge ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableMission |
“Celerium”
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
“Old Wounds” (framing narrative) NERFINISHED ⓘ “Pyrrhic Victory” (flashback involvement via family story) ⓘ “Time and Fate” (framing narrative) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | U.S. Navy SEAL officer ⓘ |
| primaryWeaponType | assault rifles ⓘ |
| rank | Lieutenant Commander ⓘ |
| relative |
Alex Mason
NERFINISHED
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Hudson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| role |
central protagonist
ⓘ
playable character ⓘ |
| seriesInstallment | Call of Duty: Black Ops subseries NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | 2025 ⓘ |
| team |
JSOC
NERFINISHED
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SEAL Team Six NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriod | near future ⓘ |
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 Mason Description of subject: David Mason is a central protagonist and U.S. Navy SEAL officer in Call of Duty: Black Ops II, known for leading key missions in the game's near-future storyline.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.