David A. Jones Sr.
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David A. Jones Sr. was an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and longtime leader of the health insurance company Humana.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David A. Jones Sr. canonical | 4 |
| David A. Jones Jr. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3873093 — 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 A. Jones Sr. Context triple: [Humana, foundedBy, David A. Jones Sr.]
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A.
Sam J. Jones
Sam J. Jones is an American actor best known for starring as the title character in the 1980 science fiction film "Flash Gordon."
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B.
Fred Jones
Fred Jones is the confident, blond leader of the Mystery Inc. gang in the Scooby-Doo franchise, known for his trap-making skills and teamwork with Scooby and the others.
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C.
K.C. Jones
K.C. Jones was a Hall of Fame American basketball player and coach renowned for his defensive prowess and key role in the Boston Celtics’ championship dynasty of the 1950s and 1960s.
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D.
Earl Richey Jones
Earl Richey Jones is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the 1999 science fiction comedy film "Galaxy Quest."
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E.
Samuel Goode Jones
Samuel Goode Jones was a prominent local figure in Georgia whose legacy is commemorated by having the city of Jonesboro named in his honor.
- 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 A. Jones Sr. Target entity description: David A. Jones Sr. was an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and longtime leader of the health insurance company Humana.
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A.
Sam J. Jones
Sam J. Jones is an American actor best known for starring as the title character in the 1980 science fiction film "Flash Gordon."
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B.
Fred Jones
Fred Jones is the confident, blond leader of the Mystery Inc. gang in the Scooby-Doo franchise, known for his trap-making skills and teamwork with Scooby and the others.
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C.
K.C. Jones
K.C. Jones was a Hall of Fame American basketball player and coach renowned for his defensive prowess and key role in the Boston Celtics’ championship dynasty of the 1950s and 1960s.
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D.
Earl Richey Jones
Earl Richey Jones is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the 1999 science fiction comedy film "Galaxy Quest."
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E.
Samuel Goode Jones
Samuel Goode Jones was a prominent local figure in Georgia whose legacy is commemorated by having the city of Jonesboro named in his honor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
business executive
ⓘ
entrepreneur ⓘ human ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Louisville business community
ⓘ
Louisville civic and philanthropic organizations ⓘ |
| boardMemberOf | Humana ⓘ |
| businessHeadquartersLocation |
Louisville, Kentucky (Humana)
ⓘ
linked to:
Louisville, Kentucky
|
| businessStrategy | expanding from nursing homes into health insurance ⓘ |
| coFounded | Humana ⓘ |
| coFounderWith | Wendell Cherry ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of Louisville
ⓘ
Yale Law School ⓘ |
| employer | Humana ⓘ |
| familyName | Jones ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
health insurance industry
ⓘ
healthcare management ⓘ |
| givenName | David ⓘ |
| hasChild |
David A. Jones Jr.
ⓘ
linked to:
David A. Jones Sr.
|
| industry |
healthcare
ⓘ
insurance ⓘ |
| influenced | development of managed care models in the United States ⓘ |
| knownFor | co-founding Humana Inc. ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| leadershipStyle | long-term strategic growth focus ⓘ |
| name | David A. Jones Sr. ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | transforming Humana into a Fortune 500 company ⓘ |
| notableFor | shaping the U.S. managed care landscape through Humana ⓘ |
| notableRole | leading Humana for several decades ⓘ |
| notableWork | building Humana into a major health insurance company ⓘ |
| occupation |
businessperson
ⓘ
corporate executive ⓘ entrepreneur ⓘ |
| philanthropicFocus |
education
ⓘ
healthcare ⓘ |
| placeOfBusiness | Louisville, Kentucky ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
chairman of Humana
ⓘ
chief executive officer of Humana ⓘ |
| residence | Louisville, Kentucky ⓘ |
| roleInHumana |
co-founder
ⓘ
longtime leader ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| typeOfBusinessFounded | health insurance company ⓘ |
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 A. Jones Sr. Description of subject: David A. Jones Sr. was an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and longtime leader of the health insurance company Humana.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: David A. Jones Sr.