David Ruffin
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David Ruffin was an American soul singer best known as the charismatic lead vocalist of The Temptations during their classic Motown era, lending his voice to hits like "My Girl."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Ruffin canonical | 20 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2731750 — 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 Ruffin Context triple: [The Temptations, hasFormerMember, David Ruffin]
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A.
Otis Williams
Otis Williams is an American baritone singer and founding member of the legendary Motown vocal group The Temptations.
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B.
Eddie Kendricks
Eddie Kendricks was an American singer and founding member of The Temptations, renowned for his distinctive falsetto lead vocals on many of the group's classic Motown hits.
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C.
Smokey Robinson
Smokey Robinson is an influential American singer, songwriter, and record producer, best known as a defining figure of Motown and a pioneer of soul and R&B music.
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D.
Don Covay
Don Covay was an influential American R&B and soul singer-songwriter known for his gritty vocal style and for writing hits for himself and other major artists in the 1960s and 1970s.
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E.
Lowell Fulson
Lowell Fulson was an influential American blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter known for shaping West Coast blues and inspiring later electric blues and R&B artists.
- 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 Ruffin Target entity description: David Ruffin was an American soul singer best known as the charismatic lead vocalist of The Temptations during their classic Motown era, lending his voice to hits like "My Girl."
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A.
Otis Williams
Otis Williams is an American baritone singer and founding member of the legendary Motown vocal group The Temptations.
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B.
Eddie Kendricks
Eddie Kendricks was an American singer and founding member of The Temptations, renowned for his distinctive falsetto lead vocals on many of the group's classic Motown hits.
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C.
Smokey Robinson
Smokey Robinson is an influential American singer, songwriter, and record producer, best known as a defining figure of Motown and a pioneer of soul and R&B music.
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D.
Don Covay
Don Covay was an influential American R&B and soul singer-songwriter known for his gritty vocal style and for writing hits for himself and other major artists in the 1960s and 1970s.
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E.
Lowell Fulson
Lowell Fulson was an influential American blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter known for shaping West Coast blues and inspiring later electric blues and R&B artists.
- 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 Ruffin Description of subject: David Ruffin was an American soul singer best known as the charismatic lead vocalist of The Temptations during their classic Motown era, lending his voice to hits like "My Girl."
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
"My Girl" by The Temptations
subject linked to:
Eddie Kendrick
subject linked to:
(I Know) I'm Losing You