David Plouffe
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David Plouffe is an American political strategist best known for architecting Barack Obama’s successful 2008 presidential campaign and later serving as a senior advisor in the Obama White House.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Plouffe canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1482585 — 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 Plouffe Context triple: [Barack Obama 2008 presidential campaign, campaignManager, David Plouffe]
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A.
Patrick Brown
Patrick Brown is a Canadian politician who has served as the mayor of Brampton, Ontario.
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B.
Jonathan Corwin
Jonathan Corwin was a 17th-century Massachusetts magistrate best known as one of the judges who presided over the Salem witch trials.
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C.
Andrew Smith
Andrew Smith was a standout Butler University basketball center known for his key role in the Bulldogs’ run to the 2011 NCAA Tournament Championship Game.
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D.
Mike Sullivan
Mike Sullivan is an American professional ice hockey coach best known for leading the Pittsburgh Penguins to multiple Stanley Cup championships.
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E.
Scott Brown
Scott Brown is an American Republican politician and former U.S. Senator from Massachusetts who later served as U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa.
- 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 Plouffe Target entity description: David Plouffe is an American political strategist best known for architecting Barack Obama’s successful 2008 presidential campaign and later serving as a senior advisor in the Obama White House.
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A.
Patrick Brown
Patrick Brown is a Canadian politician who has served as the mayor of Brampton, Ontario.
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B.
Jonathan Corwin
Jonathan Corwin was a 17th-century Massachusetts magistrate best known as one of the judges who presided over the Salem witch trials.
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C.
Andrew Smith
Andrew Smith was a standout Butler University basketball center known for his key role in the Bulldogs’ run to the 2011 NCAA Tournament Championship Game.
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D.
Mike Sullivan
Mike Sullivan is an American professional ice hockey coach best known for leading the Pittsburgh Penguins to multiple Stanley Cup championships.
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E.
Scott Brown
Scott Brown is an American Republican politician and former U.S. Senator from Massachusetts who later served as U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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 Plouffe Description of subject: David Plouffe is an American political strategist best known for architecting Barack Obama’s successful 2008 presidential campaign and later serving as a senior advisor in the Obama White House.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.