David “Hawk” Wolinski
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David “Hawk” Wolinski is an American keyboardist, songwriter, and producer best known for his work with the funk band Rufus and for writing the hit song “Ain’t Nobody.”
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David “Hawk” Wolinski canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2914739 — 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 “Hawk” Wolinski Context triple: [Ain’t Nobody, composer, David “Hawk” Wolinski]
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A.
Frank Palko
Frank Palko was the criminal defendant at the center of the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Palko v. Connecticut, which shaped the doctrine of selective incorporation of Bill of Rights protections to the states.
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B.
Max Hodak
Max Hodak is an American entrepreneur and technologist best known as the co-founder and former president of Neuralink, a company developing brain–computer interface technology.
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C.
Joe Lorkowski
Joe Lorkowski is a character in the film "Sunshine Cleaning," portrayed as the young son of the protagonist, Rose Lorkowski.
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D.
Gary Waldhorn
Gary Waldhorn was a British actor best known for his comedic and character roles on television and stage, particularly in popular UK sitcoms.
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E.
Andrew Goczkowski
Andrew Goczkowski is an American local government leader serving as the mayor of Des Plaines, Illinois.
- 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 “Hawk” Wolinski Target entity description: David “Hawk” Wolinski is an American keyboardist, songwriter, and producer best known for his work with the funk band Rufus and for writing the hit song “Ain’t Nobody.”
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A.
Frank Palko
Frank Palko was the criminal defendant at the center of the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Palko v. Connecticut, which shaped the doctrine of selective incorporation of Bill of Rights protections to the states.
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B.
Max Hodak
Max Hodak is an American entrepreneur and technologist best known as the co-founder and former president of Neuralink, a company developing brain–computer interface technology.
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C.
Joe Lorkowski
Joe Lorkowski is a character in the film "Sunshine Cleaning," portrayed as the young son of the protagonist, Rose Lorkowski.
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D.
Gary Waldhorn
Gary Waldhorn was a British actor best known for his comedic and character roles on television and stage, particularly in popular UK sitcoms.
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E.
Andrew Goczkowski
Andrew Goczkowski is an American local government leader serving as the mayor of Des Plaines, Illinois.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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keyboardist ⓘ musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Chaka Khan
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Rufus ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| genre |
R&B
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funk ⓘ soul ⓘ |
| instrument |
keyboards
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piano ⓘ synthesizer ⓘ |
| knownFor |
work with the funk band Rufus
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writing the song "Ain't Nobody" ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Rufus ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
"Ain't Nobody"
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linked to:
Ain’t Nobody
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| occupation |
keyboardist
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record producer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| wrote |
"Ain't Nobody"
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linked to:
Ain’t Nobody
|
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 “Hawk” Wolinski Description of subject: David “Hawk” Wolinski is an American keyboardist, songwriter, and producer best known for his work with the funk band Rufus and for writing the hit song “Ain’t Nobody.”
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.