John Taylor
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John Taylor is a musician best known as the bassist and co-founder of the British new wave band Duran Duran.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Taylor canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4807623 — 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 Taylor Context triple: [The Mynah Birds, notableMember, John Taylor]
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A.
John Taylor
John Taylor was the husband of philosopher and women's rights advocate Harriet Taylor Mill, known primarily in relation to her life and intellectual circle.
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B.
John Taylor
John Taylor was an American politician and political philosopher from Virginia, known for his strong advocacy of states’ rights and agrarian republicanism in the early United States.
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C.
Andrew Taylor
Andrew Taylor is a prominent American business executive best known as the longtime leader and former CEO of Enterprise Holdings, the parent company of Enterprise Rent-A-Car.
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D.
John Wilson
John Wilson was a prominent Puritan minister in early colonial Massachusetts, known for his staunch opposition to Anne Hutchinson during the Antinomian Controversy.
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E.
John Wilson
John Wilson is a film editor best known for his work on the visually striking 1989 British-French crime drama "The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover."
- 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 Taylor Target entity description: John Taylor is a musician best known as the bassist and co-founder of the British new wave band Duran Duran.
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A.
John Taylor
John Taylor was the husband of philosopher and women's rights advocate Harriet Taylor Mill, known primarily in relation to her life and intellectual circle.
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B.
John Taylor
John Taylor was an American politician and political philosopher from Virginia, known for his strong advocacy of states’ rights and agrarian republicanism in the early United States.
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C.
Andrew Taylor
Andrew Taylor is a prominent American business executive best known as the longtime leader and former CEO of Enterprise Holdings, the parent company of Enterprise Rent-A-Car.
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D.
John Wilson
John Wilson was a prominent Puritan minister in early colonial Massachusetts, known for his staunch opposition to Anne Hutchinson during the Antinomian Controversy.
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E.
John Wilson
John Wilson is a film editor best known for his work on the visually striking 1989 British-French crime drama "The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Duran Duran
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Neurotic Outsiders NERFINISHED ⓘ The Power Station NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Nigel John Taylor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| coFounderOf | Duran Duran NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1960-06-20 ⓘ |
| familyName | Taylor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
new wave
ⓘ
pop rock ⓘ synth-pop ⓘ |
| givenName |
John
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Nigel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hairColor | brown ⓘ |
| hasChild | Atlanta de Cadenet Taylor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| instrument |
bass guitar
ⓘ
guitar ⓘ keyboards ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Duran Duran
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Power Station NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | John Taylor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableRole | bassist of Duran Duran ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Duran Duran
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
album "Duran Duran" (1981, as member of Duran Duran) ⓘ album "Rio" (as member of Duran Duran) ⓘ album "Seven and the Ragged Tiger" (as member of Duran Duran) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
bassist ⓘ musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Solihull NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedInBand |
Duran Duran
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Neurotic Outsiders NERFINISHED ⓘ The Power Station NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| spouse |
Amanda de Cadenet
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Gela Nash NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearsActive | late 1970s–present ⓘ |
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 Taylor Description of subject: John Taylor is a musician best known as the bassist and co-founder of the British new wave band Duran Duran.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Union of the Snake