Mac Davis
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Mac Davis was an American country and pop singer-songwriter and actor best known for writing hits for Elvis Presley and for his own 1970s crossover successes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mac Davis canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11603566 — 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: Mac Davis Context triple: [FAME Studios, recordedWithArtist, Mac Davis]
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A.
Don Gibson
Don Gibson was an influential American country music singer-songwriter known for classics like "Oh Lonesome Me" and "I Can't Stop Loving You."
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B.
David Frizzell
David Frizzell is an American country music singer and songwriter best known for his 1980s hits and successful duets, particularly with Shelly West.
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C.
Wynn Stewart
Wynn Stewart was an influential American country singer and songwriter whose work helped shape the distinctive Bakersfield sound in the 1950s and 1960s.
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D.
Jerry Reed
Jerry Reed was an American country music singer, guitarist, songwriter, and actor known for his energetic playing style and memorable film roles, particularly in Southern-themed comedies.
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E.
Don James
Don James was a highly successful American college football coach best known for leading the University of Washington Huskies to national prominence, including a share of the 1991 national championship.
- 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: Mac Davis Target entity description: Mac Davis was an American country and pop singer-songwriter and actor best known for writing hits for Elvis Presley and for his own 1970s crossover successes.
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A.
Don Gibson
Don Gibson was an influential American country music singer-songwriter known for classics like "Oh Lonesome Me" and "I Can't Stop Loving You."
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B.
David Frizzell
David Frizzell is an American country music singer and songwriter best known for his 1980s hits and successful duets, particularly with Shelly West.
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C.
Wynn Stewart
Wynn Stewart was an influential American country singer and songwriter whose work helped shape the distinctive Bakersfield sound in the 1950s and 1960s.
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D.
Jerry Reed
Jerry Reed was an American country music singer, guitarist, songwriter, and actor known for his energetic playing style and memorable film roles, particularly in Southern-themed comedies.
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E.
Don James
Don James was a highly successful American college football coach best known for leading the University of Washington Huskies to national prominence, including a share of the 1991 national championship.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
ⓘ
country singer ⓘ human ⓘ pop singer ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ television personality ⓘ |
| activeYearsPeak | 1970s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1960s ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Academy of Country Music Entertainer of the Year NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Morris Mac Davis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Lubbock, Texas, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | complications from heart surgery ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1942-01-21 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2020-09-29 ⓘ |
| familyName | Davis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
country music
ⓘ
pop music ⓘ |
| givenName | Morris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| instrument |
guitar
ⓘ
vocals ⓘ |
| memberOf | Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Mac Davis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Little Less Conversation
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Baby, Don't Get Hooked on Me NERFINISHED ⓘ In the Ghetto NERFINISHED ⓘ Memories NERFINISHED ⓘ One Hell of a Woman NERFINISHED ⓘ Stop and Smell the Roses NERFINISHED ⓘ The Mac Davis Show NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 3 ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
recording artist ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ television host ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Lubbock, Texas, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Nashville, Tennessee, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Casablanca Records
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Columbia Records ⓘ MCA Records ⓘ |
| spouse |
Fran Cook
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lise Gerard NERFINISHED ⓘ Sarah Barg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starredIn |
Cheaper to Keep Her
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
North Dallas Forty NERFINISHED ⓘ The Mac Davis Show NERFINISHED ⓘ The Sting II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wroteSongFor | Elvis Presley 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: Mac Davis Description of subject: Mac Davis was an American country and pop singer-songwriter and actor best known for writing hits for Elvis Presley and for his own 1970s crossover successes.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
FAME Studios