Thom Yorke
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Thom Yorke is an English musician best known as the lead singer and principal songwriter of the alternative rock band Radiohead.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Thom Yorke canonical | 83 |
| Thom Yorke (solo) | 1 |
| Thomas Edward Yorke | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1465130 — 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: Thom Yorke Context triple: [Downing College, Cambridge, hasAlumnus, Thom Yorke]
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A.
Jonny Greenwood
Jonny Greenwood is an English musician and composer best known as the lead guitarist and multi-instrumentalist of the rock band Radiohead and for his acclaimed film scores.
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B.
Roger Waters
Roger Waters is an English musician, singer, songwriter, and co-founder of the rock band Pink Floyd, known for his conceptual songwriting and politically charged solo work.
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C.
Chris Martin
Chris Martin is an English singer, songwriter, and musician best known as the lead vocalist and co-founder of the rock band Coldplay.
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D.
Paul Epworth
Paul Epworth is a British record producer and songwriter renowned for his work with artists like Adele, Florence and the Machine, and Bloc Party, earning multiple Grammy and BRIT Awards.
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E.
Radiohead
Radiohead is an English alternative rock band renowned for their experimental sound, innovative albums like "OK Computer" and "Kid A," and their influential role in modern music.
- 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: Thom Yorke Target entity description: Thom Yorke is an English musician best known as the lead singer and principal songwriter of the alternative rock band Radiohead.
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A.
Jonny Greenwood
Jonny Greenwood is an English musician and composer best known as the lead guitarist and multi-instrumentalist of the rock band Radiohead and for his acclaimed film scores.
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B.
Roger Waters
Roger Waters is an English musician, singer, songwriter, and co-founder of the rock band Pink Floyd, known for his conceptual songwriting and politically charged solo work.
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C.
Chris Martin
Chris Martin is an English singer, songwriter, and musician best known as the lead vocalist and co-founder of the rock band Coldplay.
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D.
Paul Epworth
Paul Epworth is a British record producer and songwriter renowned for his work with artists like Adele, Florence and the Machine, and Bloc Party, earning multiple Grammy and BRIT Awards.
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E.
Radiohead
Radiohead is an English alternative rock band renowned for their experimental sound, innovative albums like "OK Computer" and "Kid A," and their influential role in modern music.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (62)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
composer
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human ⓘ musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1980s ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Grammy Award ⓘ |
| birthName |
Thom Yorke
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Thomas Edward Yorke
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| collaboratedWith |
Flea
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Jonny Greenwood ⓘ Nigel Godrich ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | England ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1968-10-07 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Abingdon School ⓘ |
| familyName | Yorke ⓘ |
| formedBand |
Atoms for Peace
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The Smile ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
alternative rock
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electronic music ⓘ experimental rock ⓘ |
| givenName | Thomas ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Agnes Yorke
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Noah Yorke ⓘ |
| hasSoloCareer | true ⓘ |
| knownFor |
distinctive falsetto voice
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experimentation with electronic music ⓘ politically engaged lyrics ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Atoms for Peace
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Radiohead ⓘ The Smile ⓘ |
| name | Thom Yorke self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | lead singer of Radiohead ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Amnesiac
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Anima ⓘ In Rainbows ⓘ Kid A ⓘ OK Computer ⓘ The Eraser ⓘ Tomorrow's Modern Boxes ⓘ |
| occupation |
composer
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multi-instrumentalist ⓘ musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Wellingborough ⓘ |
| playsInstrument |
bass guitar
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drums ⓘ guitar ⓘ keyboards ⓘ laptop ⓘ piano ⓘ |
| politicalActivity |
anti-war activism
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environmental activism ⓘ |
| positionInBand |
lead vocalist of Radiohead
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principal songwriter of Radiohead ⓘ |
| residence | Oxford ⓘ |
| spouse | Rachel Owen ⓘ |
| vocalType | tenor ⓘ |
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: Thom Yorke Description of subject: Thom Yorke is an English musician best known as the lead singer and principal songwriter of the alternative rock band Radiohead.
Referenced by (85)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
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