Don Was
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Don Was is an American musician and Grammy-winning record producer best known for his work with artists across rock, blues, and pop, and as the longtime president of Blue Note Records.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Don Was canonical | 61 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1785899 — 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: Don Was Context triple: [Heigh Ho, hasContributor, Don Was]
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A.
Del Shannon
Del Shannon was an American rock and roll singer-songwriter best known for his 1961 hit single "Runaway."
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B.
Bobby Webster
Bobby Webster is a professional basketball executive best known for serving as the general manager of the NBA’s Toronto Raptors, helping build the roster that won the 2019 championship.
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C.
Jimmy Reed
Jimmy Reed was an influential American blues musician and songwriter whose relaxed, electric guitar-driven style helped popularize Chicago blues in the 1950s and 1960s.
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D.
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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E.
Dion Wilson
Dion Wilson, better known by his stage name No I.D., is an influential American hip-hop and R&B record producer and executive renowned for his work with artists like Common, Jay-Z, and Kanye West.
- 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: Don Was Target entity description: Don Was is an American musician and Grammy-winning record producer best known for his work with artists across rock, blues, and pop, and as the longtime president of Blue Note Records.
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A.
Del Shannon
Del Shannon was an American rock and roll singer-songwriter best known for his 1961 hit single "Runaway."
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B.
Bobby Webster
Bobby Webster is a professional basketball executive best known for serving as the general manager of the NBA’s Toronto Raptors, helping build the roster that won the 2019 championship.
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C.
Jimmy Reed
Jimmy Reed was an influential American blues musician and songwriter whose relaxed, electric guitar-driven style helped popularize Chicago blues in the 1950s and 1960s.
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D.
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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E.
Dion Wilson
Dion Wilson, better known by his stage name No I.D., is an influential American hip-hop and R&B record producer and executive renowned for his work with artists like Common, Jay-Z, and Kanye West.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bassist
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human ⓘ musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Grammy Award for Album of the Year
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Grammy Award for Producer of the Year, Non-Classical ⓘ |
| basedIn | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| birthName | Donald Fagenson ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | Blue Note Records ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
music production
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popular music ⓘ record industry management ⓘ |
| genre |
blues
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pop music ⓘ rock music ⓘ |
| instrument |
bass guitar
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guitar ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Was (Not Was) ⓘ |
| notableWork |
co-founder of Was (Not Was)
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production of Bonnie Raitt album "Luck of the Draw" ⓘ production of Bonnie Raitt album "Nick of Time" ⓘ production work with Bob Dylan ⓘ production work with Bonnie Raitt ⓘ production work with Iggy Pop ⓘ production work with John Mayer ⓘ production work with The Rolling Stones ⓘ production work with Willie Nelson ⓘ |
| occupation |
bandleader
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bassist ⓘ musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| positionHeld | president of Blue Note Records ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Blue Note Records ⓘ |
| stageName | Don Was ⓘ |
| workedWith |
B.B. King
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linked to:
B. B. King
Bob Dylan ⓘ Bonnie Raitt ⓘ Brian Wilson ⓘ Garth Brooks ⓘ Gregg Allman ⓘ Iggy Pop ⓘ John Mayer ⓘ Kris Kristofferson ⓘ The Rolling Stones ⓘ Willie Nelson ⓘ |
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: Don Was Description of subject: Don Was is an American musician and Grammy-winning record producer best known for his work with artists across rock, blues, and pop, and as the longtime president of Blue Note Records.
Referenced by (61)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
album Nostalgia
subject linked to:
album "Prisoner"
subject linked to:
album "Spellbound"
subject linked to:
Iggy Pop – Candy
subject linked to:
It’s a Mystery
subject linked to:
I Can’t Make You Love Me