John Roy Anderson
E158529
John Roy Anderson is an English singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist best known as the lead vocalist and a founding member of the progressive rock band Yes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| John Roy Anderson canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1105083 — 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: John Roy Anderson Context triple: [Jon Anderson, birthName, John Roy Anderson]
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A.
Roland Anderson
Roland Anderson was an American art director known for his work on numerous Hollywood films from the 1930s through the 1960s, earning multiple Academy Award nominations for his production design.
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B.
Brian D. O. Anderson
Brian D. O. Anderson is a prominent Australian control theorist and engineer known for his influential contributions to systems theory, signal processing, and control engineering.
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C.
Kenneth Anderson
Kenneth Anderson was a British Army general best known for leading Allied ground forces in the North African campaign during World War II, including the early phases of the Tunisian campaign.
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D.
Roy M. Anderson
Roy M. Anderson is a British epidemiologist and professor known for his influential work on the mathematical modeling of infectious diseases and public health policy.
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E.
John O’May
John O’May is an actor known for his role in the Australian musical comedy film "Starstruck" (1982).
- 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: John Roy Anderson Target entity description: John Roy Anderson is an English singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist best known as the lead vocalist and a founding member of the progressive rock band Yes.
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A.
Roland Anderson
Roland Anderson was an American art director known for his work on numerous Hollywood films from the 1930s through the 1960s, earning multiple Academy Award nominations for his production design.
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B.
Brian D. O. Anderson
Brian D. O. Anderson is a prominent Australian control theorist and engineer known for his influential contributions to systems theory, signal processing, and control engineering.
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C.
Kenneth Anderson
Kenneth Anderson was a British Army general best known for leading Allied ground forces in the North African campaign during World War II, including the early phases of the Tunisian campaign.
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D.
Roy M. Anderson
Roy M. Anderson is a British epidemiologist and professor known for his influential work on the mathematical modeling of infectious diseases and public health policy.
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E.
John O’May
John O’May is an actor known for his role in the Australian musical comedy film "Starstruck" (1982).
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
multi-instrumentalist ⓘ rock musician ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1960s ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Jon Anderson ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1944-10-25 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Accrington
ⓘ
surface form:
Accrington, Lancashire, England
|
| collaboratedWith | Vangelis ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| familyName | Anderson ⓘ |
| founderOf | Yes ⓘ |
| genre |
art rock
ⓘ
progressive rock ⓘ symphonic rock ⓘ |
| givenName | John ⓘ |
| hasPart | solo career ⓘ |
| instrument |
guitar
ⓘ
keyboards ⓘ percussion ⓘ vocals ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Jon and Vangelis
ⓘ
Yes ⓘ |
| name | John Roy Anderson self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
album "90125" (with Yes)
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album "Close to the Edge" (with Yes) ⓘ album "Fragile" (with Yes) ⓘ album "Going for the One" (with Yes) ⓘ album "Tales from Topographic Oceans" (with Yes) ⓘ lead vocalist of Yes ⓘ solo album "Animation" ⓘ solo album "Change We Must" ⓘ solo album "In the City of Angels" ⓘ solo album "Olias of Sunhillow" ⓘ solo album "Song of Seven" ⓘ And You and I ⓘ
surface form:
song "And You and I" (with Yes)
song "Close to the Edge" (with Yes) ⓘ I Hear You Now ⓘ
surface form:
song "I Hear You Now" (with Vangelis)
I’ll Find My Way Home ⓘ
surface form:
song "I'll Find My Way Home" (with Vangelis)
Owner of a Lonely Heart ⓘ
surface form:
song "Owner of a Lonely Heart" (with Yes)
song "Roundabout" (with Yes) ⓘ |
| occupation |
musician
ⓘ
record producer ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| positionHeld | lead vocalist of Yes ⓘ |
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: John Roy Anderson Description of subject: John Roy Anderson is an English singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist best known as the lead vocalist and a founding member of the progressive rock band Yes.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.