Nelson Pigford
E296876
Nelson Pigford is a musician best known for performing on the iconic theme song "Gonna Fly Now" from the film Rocky.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nelson Pigford canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2770872 — 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: Nelson Pigford Context triple: [Gonna Fly Now, performer, Nelson Pigford]
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A.
Noland B. Harmon
Noland B. Harmon was an American Methodist bishop known for co-authoring the 1963 “A Call for Unity” statement that criticized civil rights demonstrations in Birmingham, Alabama.
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B.
William R. Wilkerson
William R. Wilkerson was an American entrepreneur and publisher best known for founding The Hollywood Reporter and initiating the development of the Flamingo Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.
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C.
Arland D. Williams Jr.
Arland D. Williams Jr. was an American passenger who became known for his heroic self-sacrifice during the 1982 Air Florida Flight 90 crash in Washington, D.C., repeatedly passing rescue lines to others before drowning.
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D.
Anthony G. Brown
Anthony G. Brown is an American politician and lawyer who has served as Maryland’s attorney general and previously as the state’s lieutenant governor and a U.S. congressman.
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E.
Willie S. Griggs
Willie S. Griggs was the lead plaintiff in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Griggs v. Duke Power Co., which established the doctrine of disparate impact in employment discrimination law.
- 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: Nelson Pigford Target entity description: Nelson Pigford is a musician best known for performing on the iconic theme song "Gonna Fly Now" from the film Rocky.
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A.
Noland B. Harmon
Noland B. Harmon was an American Methodist bishop known for co-authoring the 1963 “A Call for Unity” statement that criticized civil rights demonstrations in Birmingham, Alabama.
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B.
William R. Wilkerson
William R. Wilkerson was an American entrepreneur and publisher best known for founding The Hollywood Reporter and initiating the development of the Flamingo Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.
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C.
Arland D. Williams Jr.
Arland D. Williams Jr. was an American passenger who became known for his heroic self-sacrifice during the 1982 Air Florida Flight 90 crash in Washington, D.C., repeatedly passing rescue lines to others before drowning.
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D.
Anthony G. Brown
Anthony G. Brown is an American politician and lawyer who has served as Maryland’s attorney general and previously as the state’s lieutenant governor and a U.S. congressman.
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E.
Willie S. Griggs
Willie S. Griggs was the lead plaintiff in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Griggs v. Duke Power Co., which established the doctrine of disparate impact in employment discrimination law.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (11)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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musician ⓘ song ⓘ |
| composer | Bill Conti ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| knownFor | performing on the theme song "Gonna Fly Now" from the film Rocky ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| notableWork | performance on the theme song "Gonna Fly Now" ⓘ |
| occupation | musician ⓘ |
| partOf |
Rocky (film)
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linked to:
Rocky
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| performedOn |
"Gonna Fly Now"
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linked to:
Gonna Fly Now
|
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: Nelson Pigford Description of subject: Nelson Pigford is a musician best known for performing on the iconic theme song "Gonna Fly Now" from the film Rocky.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.