Nick Mason
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Nick Mason is an English drummer and founding member of the progressive rock band Pink Floyd.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nick Mason canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5199482 — 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: Nick Mason Context triple: [Roger Waters, associatedAct, Nick Mason]
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A.
Philip Selway
Philip Selway is an English musician best known as the drummer of the alternative rock band Radiohead.
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B.
Bill Bruford
Bill Bruford is an English drummer and percussionist best known for his innovative work in progressive rock with bands such as Yes, King Crimson, and his own group Bruford.
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C.
Mike Rutherford
Mike Rutherford is an English musician and songwriter best known as the bassist and guitarist for the rock band Genesis and the founder of Mike + The Mechanics.
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D.
David Gilmour
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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E.
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.
- 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: Nick Mason Target entity description: Nick Mason is an English drummer and founding member of the progressive rock band Pink Floyd.
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A.
Philip Selway
Philip Selway is an English musician best known as the drummer of the alternative rock band Radiohead.
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B.
Bill Bruford
Bill Bruford is an English drummer and percussionist best known for his innovative work in progressive rock with bands such as Yes, King Crimson, and his own group Bruford.
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C.
Mike Rutherford
Mike Rutherford is an English musician and songwriter best known as the bassist and guitarist for the rock band Genesis and the founder of Mike + The Mechanics.
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D.
David Gilmour
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
drummer
ⓘ
human ⓘ record producer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| associatedAct | Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1944-01-27 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Frensham Heights School
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Regent Street Polytechnic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Mason NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundingMemberOf | Pink Floyd NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Nicholas Berkeley Mason NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
art rock
ⓘ
progressive rock ⓘ psychedelic rock ⓘ |
| givenName | Nicholas ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Carrie Mason
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Chloe Mason NERFINISHED ⓘ Guy Mason NERFINISHED ⓘ Holly Mason NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHonor | Commander of the Order of the British Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hobby |
classic car collecting
ⓘ
motorsport ⓘ |
| instrument |
drums
ⓘ
percussion ⓘ vocals ⓘ |
| memberOf | Pink Floyd NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Momentary Lapse of Reason
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
A Saucerful of Secrets NERFINISHED ⓘ Animals NERFINISHED ⓘ Inside Out: A Personal History of Pink Floyd NERFINISHED ⓘ Meddle NERFINISHED ⓘ Nick Mason's Fictitious Sports NERFINISHED ⓘ The Dark Side of the Moon NERFINISHED ⓘ The Division Bell NERFINISHED ⓘ The Piper at the Gates of Dawn NERFINISHED ⓘ The Wall NERFINISHED ⓘ Wish You Were Here NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
drummer
ⓘ
musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| onlyConstantMemberOf | Pink Floyd NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| owns | Ferrari 250 GTO NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Birmingham, England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | London, England ⓘ |
| rockAndRollHallOfFameInductionYear | 1996 ⓘ |
| spouse |
Annette Lynton
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Nettie Mason 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: Nick Mason Description of subject: Nick Mason is an English drummer and founding member of the progressive rock band Pink Floyd.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.