David Hoyle
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David Hoyle is a British performance artist and comedian known for his avant-garde, confrontational style and his former drag persona The Divine David.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Hoyle canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3108481 — 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 Hoyle Context triple: [David Hoyle, name, David Hoyle]
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A.
David Hoyle
David Hoyle is a senior Church of England cleric who serves as the Dean of Westminster, overseeing major national religious ceremonies at Westminster Abbey.
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B.
Herbert Butterfield
Herbert Butterfield was a British historian and philosopher of history best known for his influential critique of teleological, progress-focused narratives in historical writing.
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C.
Geoffrey Warnock
Geoffrey Warnock was a British philosopher and academic known for his work in moral philosophy and the philosophy of language, and for serving as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford.
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D.
Gabriel Almond
Gabriel Almond was an influential American political scientist known for his work on comparative politics and political culture.
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E.
David Owen
David Owen is a British politician and former Foreign Secretary who co-founded and led the Social Democratic Party (SDP).
- 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 Hoyle Target entity description: David Hoyle is a British performance artist and comedian known for his avant-garde, confrontational style and his former drag persona The Divine David.
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A.
David Hoyle
David Hoyle is a senior Church of England cleric who serves as the Dean of Westminster, overseeing major national religious ceremonies at Westminster Abbey.
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B.
Herbert Butterfield
Herbert Butterfield was a British historian and philosopher of history best known for his influential critique of teleological, progress-focused narratives in historical writing.
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C.
Geoffrey Warnock
Geoffrey Warnock was a British philosopher and academic known for his work in moral philosophy and the philosophy of language, and for serving as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford.
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D.
Gabriel Almond
Gabriel Almond was an influential American political scientist known for his work on comparative politics and political culture.
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E.
David Owen
David Owen is a British politician and former Foreign Secretary who co-founded and led the Social Democratic Party (SDP).
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
comedian
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drag performer ⓘ drag persona ⓘ fictional character ⓘ human ⓘ performance artist ⓘ |
| activeIn |
1990s
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2000s ⓘ 2010s ⓘ 2020s ⓘ |
| artisticStyle |
camp
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confrontational ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| genre |
avant-garde performance
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experimental comedy ⓘ |
| hasEthos |
anti-assimilationist
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anti-establishment ⓘ politically radical ⓘ |
| hasPersona | The Divine David ⓘ |
| hasWorkContext |
British alternative cabaret scene
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LGBT culture in the United Kingdom ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | queer performance art ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableFor |
avant-garde drag performance
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critiques of capitalism ⓘ critiques of homophobia ⓘ critiques of mainstream gay culture ⓘ social and political satire ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Divine David ⓘ |
| occupation |
comedian
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drag queen ⓘ performance artist ⓘ |
| performer | David Hoyle ⓘ |
| performerIn |
live cabaret
ⓘ
television ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| residence |
London
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linked to:
London, England
Manchester ⓘ |
| sexualOrientation | gay ⓘ |
| spokenLanguage | English ⓘ |
| stageName | The Divine David ⓘ |
| usesMedium |
drag
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performance art ⓘ stand-up comedy ⓘ |
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 Hoyle Description of subject: David Hoyle is a British performance artist and comedian known for his avant-garde, confrontational style and his former drag persona The Divine David.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
David Hoyle