David Robertson
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David Robertson is an American conductor renowned for his innovative programming and leadership of major orchestras and contemporary music ensembles.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Robertson canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6398080 — 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 Robertson Context triple: [Ensemble InterContemporain, notableArtisticDirector, David Robertson]
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A.
John Tavares
John Tavares is a legendary Canadian lacrosse forward widely regarded as one of the greatest players in National Lacrosse League history.
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B.
John Tavares
John Tavares is a Canadian professional ice hockey center and star NHL player known for his scoring ability and leadership.
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C.
Tyler Ennis
Tyler Ennis is a Canadian professional ice hockey center who has played in the NHL for multiple teams, known for his speed, offensive skill, and playmaking ability.
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D.
David Plante
David Plante is an American novelist and memoirist known for his introspective, often spiritually themed works and his long-running "Franciscan" series.
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E.
Josh Skinner
Josh Skinner is one of the central protagonists in the musical comedy series "Schmigadoon!", a modern doctor who finds himself trapped in a fantastical, Golden Age-style musical town.
- 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 Robertson Target entity description: David Robertson is an American conductor renowned for his innovative programming and leadership of major orchestras and contemporary music ensembles.
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A.
John Tavares
John Tavares is a legendary Canadian lacrosse forward widely regarded as one of the greatest players in National Lacrosse League history.
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B.
John Tavares
John Tavares is a Canadian professional ice hockey center and star NHL player known for his scoring ability and leadership.
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C.
Tyler Ennis
Tyler Ennis is a Canadian professional ice hockey center who has played in the NHL for multiple teams, known for his speed, offensive skill, and playmaking ability.
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D.
David Plante
David Plante is an American novelist and memoirist known for his introspective, often spiritually themed works and his long-running "Franciscan" series.
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E.
Josh Skinner
Josh Skinner is one of the central protagonists in the musical comedy series "Schmigadoon!", a modern doctor who finds himself trapped in a fantastical, Golden Age-style musical town.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American
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conductor ⓘ human ⓘ music director ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
classical music
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contemporary classical music ⓘ |
| genre |
classical music
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contemporary classical music ⓘ |
| hasRole |
artistic director
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music director ⓘ principal conductor ⓘ |
| hasWorkedWith |
contemporary music ensembles
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major symphony orchestras ⓘ |
| knownFor |
championing new music
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collaborations with contemporary composers ⓘ creative concert programming ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
innovative programming
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leadership of major orchestras ⓘ promotion of contemporary music ⓘ |
| occupation |
conductor
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music director ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
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 Robertson Description of subject: David Robertson is an American conductor renowned for his innovative programming and leadership of major orchestras and contemporary music ensembles.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.