Starkey family
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British family
actor
drummer
fashion designer
hairdresser
musician
rock band
show business family
singer
songwriter
The Starkey family is a British showbusiness family best known for Ringo Starr of The Beatles and his children, including drummer Jason Starkey.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Starkey family canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11009680 — 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: Starkey family Context triple: [Jason Starkey, notableFamily, Starkey family]
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A.
Gordy family
The Gordy family is an influential American family best known for founding and leading Motown Records, which shaped the sound of popular music in the 20th century.
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B.
Patwa family
The Patwa family was a wealthy merchant clan in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, historically known for their opulent trading fortunes that funded the construction of the famous Patwon Ki Haveli.
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C.
Singer family
The Singer family is a prominent Jewish rabbinic and scholarly lineage known for its religious leadership and communal influence.
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D.
Spears family
The Spears family is an American family best known for its members Britney Spears, a global pop star, and Jamie Lynn Spears, an actress and singer, as well as their involvement in widely publicized personal and legal controversies.
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E.
Usher family
The Usher family is the doomed, aristocratic lineage at the center of Edgar Allan Poe’s gothic tale “The Fall of the House of Usher,” known for its decay, madness, and mysterious curse.
- 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: Starkey family Target entity description: The Starkey family is a British showbusiness family best known for Ringo Starr of The Beatles and his children, including drummer Jason Starkey.
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A.
Gordy family
The Gordy family is an influential American family best known for founding and leading Motown Records, which shaped the sound of popular music in the 20th century.
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B.
Patwa family
The Patwa family was a wealthy merchant clan in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, historically known for their opulent trading fortunes that funded the construction of the famous Patwon Ki Haveli.
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C.
Singer family
The Singer family is a prominent Jewish rabbinic and scholarly lineage known for its religious leadership and communal influence.
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D.
Spears family
The Spears family is an American family best known for its members Britney Spears, a global pop star, and Jamie Lynn Spears, an actress and singer, as well as their involvement in widely publicized personal and legal controversies.
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E.
Usher family
The Usher family is the doomed, aristocratic lineage at the center of Edgar Allan Poe’s gothic tale “The Fall of the House of Usher,” known for its decay, madness, and mysterious curse.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British family
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actor ⓘ drummer ⓘ drummer ⓘ drummer ⓘ fashion designer ⓘ hairdresser ⓘ musician ⓘ musician ⓘ musician ⓘ rock band ⓘ show business family ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| birthName | Richard Starkey ⓘ |
| child |
Jason Starkey
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Jason Starkey ⓘ Lee Starkey ⓘ Lee Starkey ⓘ Zak Starkey ⓘ Zak Starkey ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| hasBeenMemberOf |
Oasis
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The Who ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Jason Starkey
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Lee Starkey ⓘ Ringo Starr ⓘ Ringo Starr ⓘ Zak Starkey ⓘ |
| memberOf | The Beatles ⓘ |
| nationality |
British
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British ⓘ British ⓘ British ⓘ |
| notableFor |
association with Ringo Starr
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involvement in popular music ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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drummer ⓘ drummer ⓘ drummer ⓘ fashion designer ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| parent |
Ringo Starr
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Ringo Starr ⓘ Ringo Starr ⓘ |
| spouse |
Barbara Bach
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Maureen Starkey Tigrett ⓘ Ringo Starr ⓘ |
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: Starkey family Description of subject: The Starkey family is a British showbusiness family best known for Ringo Starr of The Beatles and his children, including drummer Jason Starkey.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.