David A. Wilson
E589715
David A. Wilson is a media entrepreneur and co-founder of TheGrio, a news platform focused on African American stories and perspectives.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David A. Wilson canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6371532 — 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. Wilson Context triple: [TheGrio, foundedBy, David A. Wilson]
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A.
David A. Wilson
David A. Wilson is a public administrator who serves as the city manager of West Hollywood, California.
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B.
David C. Wilson
David C. Wilson is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the script for the 2015 spy film adaptation of "The Man from U.N.C.L.E."
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C.
Richard J. Wilson
Richard J. Wilson is a British mathematician and author known for his work in graph theory and for co-writing influential popular and academic mathematics books.
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D.
Rowan D. Wilson
Rowan D. Wilson is an American jurist who serves as the Chief Judge of New York’s highest court, the Court of Appeals, overseeing the state’s judiciary.
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E.
Paul Caldwell Wilson
Paul Caldwell Wilson was the husband of Frances Perkins, the first female U.S. Secretary of Labor and a key architect of New Deal social policies.
- 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. Wilson Target entity description: David A. Wilson is a media entrepreneur and co-founder of TheGrio, a news platform focused on African American stories and perspectives.
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A.
David A. Wilson
David A. Wilson is a public administrator who serves as the city manager of West Hollywood, California.
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B.
David C. Wilson
David C. Wilson is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the script for the 2015 spy film adaptation of "The Man from U.N.C.L.E."
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C.
Richard J. Wilson
Richard J. Wilson is a British mathematician and author known for his work in graph theory and for co-writing influential popular and academic mathematics books.
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D.
Rowan D. Wilson
Rowan D. Wilson is an American jurist who serves as the Chief Judge of New York’s highest court, the Court of Appeals, overseeing the state’s judiciary.
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E.
Paul Caldwell Wilson
Paul Caldwell Wilson was the husband of Frances Perkins, the first female U.S. Secretary of Labor and a key architect of New Deal social policies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
businessperson
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co-founder ⓘ media entrepreneur ⓘ news platform ⓘ |
| coFounded | TheGrio ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
African American news
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African American perspectives ⓘ African American perspectives ⓘ African American stories ⓘ African American stories ⓘ |
| knownFor | co-founding TheGrio ⓘ |
| notableWork | TheGrio ⓘ |
| occupation |
business executive
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media entrepreneur ⓘ |
| worksIn | media industry ⓘ |
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. Wilson Description of subject: David A. Wilson is a media entrepreneur and co-founder of TheGrio, a news platform focused on African American stories and perspectives.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.