Billy Sherwood
E206300
Billy Sherwood is an American musician, producer, and songwriter best known for his work as a bassist, guitarist, and later full member of the progressive rock band Yes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Billy Sherwood canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1794543 — 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: Billy Sherwood Context triple: [Yes, hasMember, Billy Sherwood]
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A.
Geoff Downes
Geoff Downes is an English keyboardist and songwriter best known as a member of The Buggles and the progressive rock bands Yes and Asia.
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B.
Jon Davison
Jon Davison is a British video game journalist and media executive known for his work at outlets such as GamePro, 1UP, and IGN.
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C.
Trevor Rabin
Trevor Rabin is a South African musician and composer best known as the former guitarist of the rock band Yes and as a prolific film score composer.
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D.
Andy Bell
Andy Bell is an English musician and songwriter best known as the bassist for the rock band Oasis and later a member of Beady Eye and Ride.
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E.
Michael Devine
Michael Devine was an Irish republican hunger striker and INLA member who died during the 1981 Maze Prison hunger strike in Northern Ireland.
- 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: Billy Sherwood Target entity description: Billy Sherwood is an American musician, producer, and songwriter best known for his work as a bassist, guitarist, and later full member of the progressive rock band Yes.
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A.
Geoff Downes
Geoff Downes is an English keyboardist and songwriter best known as a member of The Buggles and the progressive rock bands Yes and Asia.
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B.
Jon Davison
Jon Davison is a British video game journalist and media executive known for his work at outlets such as GamePro, 1UP, and IGN.
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C.
Trevor Rabin
Trevor Rabin is a South African musician and composer best known as the former guitarist of the rock band Yes and as a prolific film score composer.
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D.
Andy Bell
Andy Bell is an English musician and songwriter best known as the bassist for the rock band Oasis and later a member of Beady Eye and Ride.
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E.
Michael Devine
Michael Devine was an Irish republican hunger striker and INLA member who died during the 1981 Maze Prison hunger strike in Northern Ireland.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| associatedAct | Yes ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Sherwood ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
music production
ⓘ
performance in progressive rock bands ⓘ songwriting ⓘ |
| genre |
progressive rock
ⓘ
rock music ⓘ |
| givenName | Billy ⓘ |
| instrument |
bass guitar
ⓘ
guitar ⓘ keyboards ⓘ vocals ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Yes ⓘ |
| name | Billy Sherwood self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor | being a later full member of Yes ⓘ |
| notableWork | work with the band Yes ⓘ |
| occupation |
bassist
ⓘ
guitarist ⓘ musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | United States of America ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
bassist of Yes
ⓘ
full member of Yes ⓘ guitarist 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: Billy Sherwood Description of subject: Billy Sherwood is an American musician, producer, and songwriter best known for his work as a bassist, guitarist, and later full member of the progressive rock band Yes.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Yes