Bill Bruford
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Bill Bruford is an English drummer and percussionist best known for his innovative work in progressive rock with bands such as Yes, King Crimson, and his own group Bruford.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bill Bruford canonical | 29 |
| Bill Bruford: The Autobiography | 1 |
| Bruford | 1 |
| William Scott Bruford | 1 |
| the band Bruford | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1105105 — 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: Bill Bruford Context triple: [Jon Anderson, collaboratedWith, Bill Bruford]
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A.
Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe
Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe was a progressive rock supergroup formed by former Yes members Jon Anderson, Bill Bruford, Rick Wakeman, and Steve Howe as a vehicle to continue the classic Yes sound outside the main band.
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B.
Tim Welke
Tim Welke is a former Major League Baseball umpire who served as a longtime crew chief in numerous high-profile games, including the World Series.
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C.
Tony Clark
Tony Clark is a former Major League Baseball first baseman who became the influential executive director of the MLB Players Association.
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D.
David Parfitt
David Parfitt is a British film producer best known for his Academy Award-winning work on acclaimed dramas such as "Shakespeare in Love."
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E.
Storm Thorgerson
Storm Thorgerson was a renowned British graphic designer best known for creating many iconic rock album covers, particularly for bands like Pink Floyd.
- 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: Bill Bruford Target entity description: Bill Bruford is an English drummer and percussionist best known for his innovative work in progressive rock with bands such as Yes, King Crimson, and his own group Bruford.
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A.
Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe
Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe was a progressive rock supergroup formed by former Yes members Jon Anderson, Bill Bruford, Rick Wakeman, and Steve Howe as a vehicle to continue the classic Yes sound outside the main band.
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B.
Tim Welke
Tim Welke is a former Major League Baseball umpire who served as a longtime crew chief in numerous high-profile games, including the World Series.
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C.
Tony Clark
Tony Clark is a former Major League Baseball first baseman who became the influential executive director of the MLB Players Association.
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D.
David Parfitt
David Parfitt is a British film producer best known for his Academy Award-winning work on acclaimed dramas such as "Shakespeare in Love."
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E.
Storm Thorgerson
Storm Thorgerson was a renowned British graphic designer best known for creating many iconic rock album covers, particularly for bands like Pink Floyd.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (60)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
author
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bandleader ⓘ composer ⓘ drummer ⓘ human ⓘ percussionist ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1960s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe
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Earthworks ⓘ Genesis ⓘ Gong ⓘ King Crimson ⓘ National Health ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ
surface form:
U.K.
Yes ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Modern Drummer Hall of Fame inductee ⓘ |
| birthName |
Bill Bruford
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
William Scott Bruford
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| countryOfBirth | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1949-05-17 ⓘ |
| familyName |
Bill Bruford
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Bruford
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| genre |
art rock
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jazz ⓘ jazz fusion ⓘ progressive rock ⓘ |
| givenName | William ⓘ |
| instrument |
drum kit
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electronic drums ⓘ percussion ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe
ⓘ
Bruford ⓘ Earthworks ⓘ Genesis (touring musician) ⓘ King Crimson ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ
surface form:
U.K.
Yes ⓘ |
| name | Bill Bruford self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | English ⓘ |
| notableAlbum |
Bill Bruford’s Earthworks
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Bruford Tapes ⓘ Earthworks ⓘ Feels Good to Me ⓘ Gradually Going Tornado ⓘ Heavenly Bodies ⓘ One of a Kind ⓘ |
| notableFor |
innovative drumming in progressive rock
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pioneering use of electronic drums in rock and jazz ⓘ use of odd time signatures ⓘ |
| notablePublication |
Bill Bruford
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Bill Bruford: The Autobiography
|
| notableWork |
drumming with King Crimson
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drumming with Yes ⓘ Bill Bruford self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
the band Bruford
|
| occupation |
author
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composer ⓘ drummer ⓘ musician ⓘ percussionist ⓘ record producer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Sevenoaks ⓘ |
| retiredFromTouring | 2009 ⓘ |
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: Bill Bruford Description of subject: Bill Bruford is an English drummer and percussionist best known for his innovative work in progressive rock with bands such as Yes, King Crimson, and his own group Bruford.
Referenced by (33)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Yes
subject surface form:
Yes
this entity surface form:
William Scott Bruford
this entity surface form:
Bruford
this entity surface form:
the band Bruford
this entity surface form:
Bill Bruford: The Autobiography
subject surface form:
I've Seen All Good People