David Herbert
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David Herbert is a renowned American percussionist best known for his role as principal timpanist with major U.S. orchestras.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Herbert canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3902343 — 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 Herbert Context triple: [San Francisco Symphony, hasPrincipalTimpanist, David Herbert]
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A.
Edgar Box
Edgar Box is the crime-fiction pseudonym under which American writer Gore Vidal published a series of mystery novels in the 1950s.
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B.
David Urquhart
David Urquhart was a 19th-century Scottish diplomat, writer, and politician known for his advocacy of Turkish interests and his strong opposition to Russian expansion.
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C.
John Woolf
John Woolf was a prominent British film producer known for backing acclaimed mid-20th-century films, including several major literary adaptations and award-winning dramas.
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D.
James Elroy Flecker
James Elroy Flecker was an early 20th-century British poet and playwright known for his richly musical verse and exotic, symbolist-influenced imagery.
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E.
Richard Llewellyn
Richard Llewellyn was a Welsh novelist best known for his 1939 work "How Green Was My Valley," a classic depiction of life in a South Wales mining community.
- 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 Herbert Target entity description: David Herbert is a renowned American percussionist best known for his role as principal timpanist with major U.S. orchestras.
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A.
Edgar Box
Edgar Box is the crime-fiction pseudonym under which American writer Gore Vidal published a series of mystery novels in the 1950s.
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B.
David Urquhart
David Urquhart was a 19th-century Scottish diplomat, writer, and politician known for his advocacy of Turkish interests and his strong opposition to Russian expansion.
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C.
John Woolf
John Woolf was a prominent British film producer known for backing acclaimed mid-20th-century films, including several major literary adaptations and award-winning dramas.
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D.
James Elroy Flecker
James Elroy Flecker was an early 20th-century British poet and playwright known for his richly musical verse and exotic, symbolist-influenced imagery.
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E.
Richard Llewellyn
Richard Llewellyn was a Welsh novelist best known for his 1939 work "How Green Was My Valley," a classic depiction of life in a South Wales mining community.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
percussionist
ⓘ
person ⓘ timpanist ⓘ |
| citizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| countryOfWork |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| fieldOfWork | orchestral music ⓘ |
| genre | classical music ⓘ |
| hasRole | principal timpanist ⓘ |
| instrument |
percussion
ⓘ
timpani ⓘ |
| isRenowned | true ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor | principal timpanist roles with major U.S. orchestras ⓘ |
| occupation |
percussionist
ⓘ
timpanist ⓘ |
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 Herbert Description of subject: David Herbert is a renowned American percussionist best known for his role as principal timpanist with major U.S. orchestras.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.