David Alexander
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David Alexander is a former American football offensive lineman who played in the NFL, primarily for the Philadelphia Eagles, after a standout college career at the University of Tulsa.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Alexander canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7472958 — 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)
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Target entity: David Alexander Context triple: [Tulsa Golden Hurricane football, notableAlumnus, David Alexander]
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A.
David Alexander
David Alexander is a character in James Baldwin's play "The Amen Corner," which explores faith, family conflict, and the Black church in mid-20th-century Harlem.
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B.
Alexander Laurie
Alexander Laurie was the individual after whom Laurie Island in the South Orkney Islands of Antarctica was named, likely recognized for his role in exploration or related contributions.
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C.
Alexander Haddow
Alexander Haddow was a Scottish epidemiologist and virologist noted for his pioneering research on insect-borne viruses, particularly in Africa.
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D.
Dave Alexander
Dave Alexander was an American bassist best known for his work with the influential proto-punk band The Stooges in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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E.
Alexander Lester
Alexander Lester is an actor known for portraying the iconic Shakespearean character Lady Macbeth.
- 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 Alexander Target entity description: David Alexander is a former American football offensive lineman who played in the NFL, primarily for the Philadelphia Eagles, after a standout college career at the University of Tulsa.
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A.
David Alexander
David Alexander is a character in James Baldwin's play "The Amen Corner," which explores faith, family conflict, and the Black church in mid-20th-century Harlem.
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B.
Alexander Laurie
Alexander Laurie was the individual after whom Laurie Island in the South Orkney Islands of Antarctica was named, likely recognized for his role in exploration or related contributions.
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C.
Alexander Haddow
Alexander Haddow was a Scottish epidemiologist and virologist noted for his pioneering research on insect-borne viruses, particularly in Africa.
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D.
Dave Alexander
Dave Alexander was an American bassist best known for his work with the influential proto-punk band The Stooges in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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E.
Alexander Lester
Alexander Lester is an actor known for portraying the iconic Shakespearean character Lady Macbeth.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American football player
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human ⓘ |
| collegeAttended | University of Tulsa ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfSportingActivity | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Tulsa ⓘ |
| familyName | Alexander ⓘ |
| givenName | David ⓘ |
| league | National Football League ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam | Philadelphia Eagles ⓘ |
| notableFor | playing offensive line for the Philadelphia Eagles in the NFL ⓘ |
| notableWork | standout college football career at the University of Tulsa ⓘ |
| occupation |
American football player
ⓘ
offensive lineman ⓘ |
| playedFor | Philadelphia Eagles ⓘ |
| playedInLeague | National Football League ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | offensive lineman ⓘ |
| retired | true ⓘ |
| sport | American football ⓘ |
| sportSpecialty | offense ⓘ |
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 Alexander Description of subject: David Alexander is a former American football offensive lineman who played in the NFL, primarily for the Philadelphia Eagles, after a standout college career at the University of Tulsa.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.