Mayfield
E290791
family name
funk musician
guitarist
human
musician
record producer
rhythm and blues musician
singer-songwriter
soul musician
surname
Mayfield is a surname most famously associated with Curtis Mayfield, the influential American soul, funk, and R&B musician and songwriter.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mayfield canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2701371 — 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: Mayfield Context triple: [Curtis Mayfield, familyName, Mayfield]
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A.
Mayfield
Mayfield is a village and civil parish in East Sussex, England, known for its historic High Street and traditional English countryside setting.
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B.
Mayfield Heights
Mayfield Heights is a suburban city in northeastern Ohio, located east of Cleveland and known for its residential neighborhoods and commercial corridors.
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C.
Garfield Heights
Garfield Heights is a suburban city located southeast of downtown Cleveland in northeastern Ohio.
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D.
Bolivar Heights
Bolivar Heights is a historically significant ridge near Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, known for its strategic role in multiple American Civil War battles.
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E.
Maple Heights
Maple Heights is a suburban city in northeastern Ohio, located within the Greater Cleveland metropolitan area.
- 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: Mayfield Target entity description: Mayfield is a surname most famously associated with Curtis Mayfield, the influential American soul, funk, and R&B musician and songwriter.
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A.
Mayfield
Mayfield is a village and civil parish in East Sussex, England, known for its historic High Street and traditional English countryside setting.
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B.
Mayfield Heights
Mayfield Heights is a suburban city in northeastern Ohio, located east of Cleveland and known for its residential neighborhoods and commercial corridors.
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C.
Garfield Heights
Garfield Heights is a suburban city located southeast of downtown Cleveland in northeastern Ohio.
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D.
Bolivar Heights
Bolivar Heights is a historically significant ridge near Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, known for its strategic role in multiple American Civil War battles.
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E.
Maple Heights
Maple Heights is a suburban city in northeastern Ohio, located within the Greater Cleveland metropolitan area.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
family name
ⓘ
funk musician ⓘ guitarist ⓘ human ⓘ musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ rhythm and blues musician ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ soul musician ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
African American
ⓘ
linked to:
Black Americans
|
| familyName | Mayfield ⓘ |
| genre |
funk
ⓘ
rhythm and blues ⓘ soul ⓘ |
| givenName | Curtis ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Curtis Mayfield ⓘ |
| influencedGenre |
funk
ⓘ
rhythm and blues ⓘ soul ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
People Get Ready
ⓘ
Super Fly ⓘ |
| occupation |
guitarist
ⓘ
record producer ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| usedIn | English language ⓘ |
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: Mayfield Description of subject: Mayfield is a surname most famously associated with Curtis Mayfield, the influential American soul, funk, and R&B musician and songwriter.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.