Sammy Davis Sr.
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Sammy Davis Sr. was an American vaudeville and tap dancer best known as the father and early performing partner of entertainer Sammy Davis Jr.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sammy Davis Sr. canonical | 3 |
| Sammy Davis | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6568591 — 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: Sammy Davis Sr. Context triple: [Sammy Davis Jr., parent, Sammy Davis Sr.]
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A.
Sammy Davis Jr.
Sammy Davis Jr. was an American singer, dancer, actor, and member of the Rat Pack, renowned for his versatile talent and groundbreaking role as a Black entertainer in mid-20th-century popular culture.
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B.
Jimmy Durante
Jimmy Durante was a beloved American comedian, actor, and singer known for his gravelly voice, prominent nose, and exuberant stage and screen persona.
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C.
Danny Thomas
Danny Thomas was an American comedian, actor, and producer best known for creating and starring in the sitcom "Make Room for Daddy" and for founding St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
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D.
Jimmy Witherspoon
Jimmy Witherspoon was an American blues and jazz singer known for his powerful, soulful voice and influential postwar recordings.
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E.
Cab Calloway
Cab Calloway was an influential American jazz singer and bandleader known for his energetic performances and scat singing, who became a prominent figure of the Harlem Renaissance.
- 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: Sammy Davis Sr. Target entity description: Sammy Davis Sr. was an American vaudeville and tap dancer best known as the father and early performing partner of entertainer Sammy Davis Jr.
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A.
Sammy Davis Jr.
Sammy Davis Jr. was an American singer, dancer, actor, and member of the Rat Pack, renowned for his versatile talent and groundbreaking role as a Black entertainer in mid-20th-century popular culture.
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B.
Jimmy Durante
Jimmy Durante was a beloved American comedian, actor, and singer known for his gravelly voice, prominent nose, and exuberant stage and screen persona.
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C.
Danny Thomas
Danny Thomas was an American comedian, actor, and producer best known for creating and starring in the sitcom "Make Room for Daddy" and for founding St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
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D.
Jimmy Witherspoon
Jimmy Witherspoon was an American blues and jazz singer known for his powerful, soulful voice and influential postwar recordings.
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E.
Cab Calloway
Cab Calloway was an influential American jazz singer and bandleader known for his energetic performances and scat singing, who became a prominent figure of the Harlem Renaissance.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
dancer
ⓘ
human ⓘ tap dancer ⓘ vaudeville performer ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | natural causes ⓘ |
| child | Sammy Davis Jr. ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1900-12-12 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1988-05-21 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
African American
ⓘ
linked to:
Black Americans
|
| familyName | Davis ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
dance
ⓘ
performing arts ⓘ |
| givenName | Samuel ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Will Mastin Trio ⓘ |
| name | Sammy Davis Sr. ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being an early performing partner of Sammy Davis Jr.
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being the father of Sammy Davis Jr. ⓘ |
| notableRelative | Sammy Davis Jr. ⓘ |
| notableWork | Will Mastin Trio ⓘ |
| occupation |
dancer
ⓘ
entertainer ⓘ tap dancer ⓘ vaudeville performer ⓘ |
| performingArtsGenre |
tap dance
ⓘ
vaudeville ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Wilmington, North Carolina, United States ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Beverly Hills, California, United States ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Elvera Sanchez ⓘ |
| workedWith |
Sammy Davis Jr.
ⓘ
Will Mastin ⓘ |
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: Sammy Davis Sr. Description of subject: Sammy Davis Sr. was an American vaudeville and tap dancer best known as the father and early performing partner of entertainer Sammy Davis Jr.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Sammy Davis Sr.
linked to: Sammy Davis Sr.