David Goldstein
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David Goldstein is the birth name of Rupert Holmes, the British-American singer-songwriter, playwright, and creator of the hit song "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Goldstein canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1649059 — 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 Goldstein Context triple: [Rupert Holmes, birthName, David Goldstein]
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A.
Jonathan Goldstein
Jonathan Goldstein is an American screenwriter and filmmaker best known for co-writing hit studio comedies such as Horrible Bosses and Spider-Man: Homecoming.
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B.
Josh Goldstein
Josh Goldstein is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the story for Disney’s adventure film "Jungle Cruise."
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C.
Stephen Goldblatt
Stephen Goldblatt is a British cinematographer known for his work on major films such as Charlie Wilson's War, Batman Forever, and Lethal Weapon.
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D.
Neil Goldman
Neil Goldman is a recurring nerdy, socially awkward teenage character in the animated TV series "Family Guy," often portrayed as infatuated with Meg Griffin.
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E.
Charles Goldfarb
Charles Goldfarb is a computer scientist best known as the principal inventor of SGML, the Standard Generalized Markup Language that laid the foundation for HTML and XML.
- 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 Goldstein Target entity description: David Goldstein is the birth name of Rupert Holmes, the British-American singer-songwriter, playwright, and creator of the hit song "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)."
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A.
Jonathan Goldstein
Jonathan Goldstein is an American screenwriter and filmmaker best known for co-writing hit studio comedies such as Horrible Bosses and Spider-Man: Homecoming.
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B.
Josh Goldstein
Josh Goldstein is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the story for Disney’s adventure film "Jungle Cruise."
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C.
Stephen Goldblatt
Stephen Goldblatt is a British cinematographer known for his work on major films such as Charlie Wilson's War, Batman Forever, and Lethal Weapon.
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D.
Neil Goldman
Neil Goldman is a recurring nerdy, socially awkward teenage character in the animated TV series "Family Guy," often portrayed as infatuated with Meg Griffin.
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E.
Charles Goldfarb
Charles Goldfarb is a computer scientist best known as the principal inventor of SGML, the Standard Generalized Markup Language that laid the foundation for HTML and XML.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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human ⓘ musical ⓘ novel ⓘ song ⓘ television series ⓘ |
| author | Rupert Holmes ⓘ |
| birthName | David Goldstein ⓘ |
| birthNameOf | Rupert Holmes ⓘ |
| bookBy | Rupert Holmes ⓘ |
| citizenship |
United Kingdom
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United States of America ⓘ |
| composer |
Rupert Holmes
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Rupert Holmes ⓘ |
| creator | Rupert Holmes ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
literature
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music ⓘ television ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| genre |
pop music
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soft rock ⓘ soft rock ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Holmes ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Rupert ⓘ |
| language |
English
ⓘ
English ⓘ |
| lyricist |
Rupert Holmes
ⓘ
Rupert Holmes ⓘ |
| name | David Goldstein ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Escape (The Piña Colada Song)
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Remember WENN ⓘ Swingers ⓘ The Mystery of Edwin Drood ⓘ
linked to:
The Mystery of Edwin Drood (musical)
Where the Truth Lies ⓘ |
| occupation |
composer
ⓘ
musician ⓘ novelist ⓘ playwright ⓘ record producer ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ |
| performer | Rupert Holmes ⓘ |
| stageName | Rupert Holmes ⓘ |
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 Goldstein Description of subject: David Goldstein is the birth name of Rupert Holmes, the British-American singer-songwriter, playwright, and creator of the hit song "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.