David Gilmour
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David Gilmour is an English guitarist, singer, and songwriter best known as the lead guitarist and co-lead vocalist of the rock band Pink Floyd.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Gilmour canonical | 19 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4454093 — 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: David Gilmour Context triple: [Fender Stratocaster, notablePlayer, David Gilmour]
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A.
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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B.
Jack Bruce
Jack Bruce was a Scottish musician, singer, and songwriter best known as the bassist and vocalist of the pioneering rock band Cream.
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C.
Noel Redding
Noel Redding was an English rock bassist best known as the original bass player for the Jimi Hendrix Experience.
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D.
Chris Squire
Chris Squire was an English bassist, singer, and founding member of the progressive rock band Yes, renowned for his distinctive melodic bass playing and influential role in the genre.
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E.
Roy Wood
Roy Wood is an English musician, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist best known as a founding member of the bands The Move, Electric Light Orchestra, and Wizzard.
- 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: David Gilmour Target entity description: David Gilmour is an English guitarist, singer, and songwriter best known as the lead guitarist and co-lead vocalist of the rock band Pink Floyd.
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A.
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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B.
Jack Bruce
Jack Bruce was a Scottish musician, singer, and songwriter best known as the bassist and vocalist of the pioneering rock band Cream.
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C.
Noel Redding
Noel Redding was an English rock bassist best known as the original bass player for the Jimi Hendrix Experience.
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D.
Chris Squire
Chris Squire was an English bassist, singer, and founding member of the progressive rock band Yes, renowned for his distinctive melodic bass playing and influential role in the genre.
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E.
Roy Wood
Roy Wood is an English musician, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist best known as a founding member of the bands The Move, Electric Light Orchestra, and Wizzard.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (62)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
guitarist
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human ⓘ record producer ⓘ rock musician ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Jokers Wild
NERFINISHED
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Kate Bush NERFINISHED ⓘ Paul McCartney NERFINISHED ⓘ Pink Floyd NERFINISHED ⓘ Roy Harper NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Commander of the Order of the British Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthCountry |
England
NERFINISHED
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1946-03-06 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Cambridge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| familyName | Gilmour NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formerSpouse | Ginger Gilmour NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | David Jon Gilmour NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
art rock
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blues rock ⓘ progressive rock ⓘ psychedelic rock ⓘ |
| givenName | David NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSoloAlbum |
About Face
NERFINISHED
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David Gilmour NERFINISHED ⓘ Live in Gdańsk NERFINISHED ⓘ On an Island NERFINISHED ⓘ Rattle That Lock NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| honour | inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Pink Floyd ⓘ |
| influenced | many progressive rock guitarists ⓘ |
| instrument |
acoustic guitar
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bass guitar ⓘ electric guitar ⓘ keyboards ⓘ vocals ⓘ |
| joined | Pink Floyd in 1967 ⓘ |
| memberOf | Pink Floyd NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
expressive guitar solos
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use of delay and modulation effects on guitar ⓘ |
| notableGuitar | Fender Stratocaster "Black Strat" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Animals
NERFINISHED
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Comfortably Numb NERFINISHED ⓘ Meddle NERFINISHED ⓘ Money NERFINISHED ⓘ Shine On You Crazy Diamond NERFINISHED ⓘ The Dark Side of the Moon NERFINISHED ⓘ The Wall NERFINISHED ⓘ Wish You Were Here NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
composer
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guitarist ⓘ record producer ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| positionInBand |
co-lead vocalist of Pink Floyd
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lead guitarist of Pink Floyd ⓘ |
| residence |
London, England
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surface form:
London
Sussex NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Polly Samson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: David Gilmour Description of subject: David Gilmour is an English guitarist, singer, and songwriter best known as the lead guitarist and co-lead vocalist of the rock band Pink Floyd.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
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