Roger Taylor
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Roger Taylor is an English musician best known as the drummer and a songwriter for the rock band Queen.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Roger Taylor canonical | 28 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5342729 — 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: Roger Taylor Context triple: [Union of the Snake, writer, Roger Taylor]
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A.
Charles Watts
Charles Watts was an American character actor known for his supporting roles in mid-20th-century film and television.
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B.
Roger Hodgson
Roger Hodgson is an English musician, singer-songwriter, and co-founder of the progressive rock band Supertramp, known for writing and singing many of their biggest hits.
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C.
David Parfitt
David Parfitt is a British film producer best known for his Academy Award-winning work on acclaimed dramas such as "Shakespeare in Love."
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D.
Scott Robinson
Scott Robinson is a fictional character from the long-running Australian soap opera "Neighbours," known for being one of the show's original and central Ramsay Street residents.
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E.
Neil Aspinall
Neil Aspinall was a close associate and longtime road manager of the Beatles who later became the chief executive of their company, Apple Corps.
- 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: Roger Taylor Target entity description: Roger Taylor is an English musician best known as the drummer and a songwriter for the rock band Queen.
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A.
Charles Watts
Charles Watts was an American character actor known for his supporting roles in mid-20th-century film and television.
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B.
Roger Hodgson
Roger Hodgson is an English musician, singer-songwriter, and co-founder of the progressive rock band Supertramp, known for writing and singing many of their biggest hits.
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C.
David Parfitt
David Parfitt is a British film producer best known for his Academy Award-winning work on acclaimed dramas such as "Shakespeare in Love."
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D.
Scott Robinson
Scott Robinson is a fictional character from the long-running Australian soap opera "Neighbours," known for being one of the show's original and central Ramsay Street residents.
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E.
Neil Aspinall
Neil Aspinall was a close associate and longtime road manager of the Beatles who later became the chief executive of their company, Apple Corps.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (67)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
drummer
ⓘ
human ⓘ musician ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1968 ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Queen
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Smile (band) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Cross NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Roger Meddows Taylor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1949-07-26 ⓘ |
| familyName | Taylor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formerSpouse | Dominique Beyrand NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
glam rock
ⓘ
hard rock ⓘ progressive rock ⓘ rock ⓘ |
| givenName | Roger ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Felix Luther Taylor
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lola Daisy May Taylor NERFINISHED ⓘ Rory Eleanor Taylor NERFINISHED ⓘ Rufus Tiger Taylor NERFINISHED ⓘ Tiger Lilly Taylor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPart | Roger Taylor discography ⓘ |
| hasSignature | Roger Taylor signature ⓘ |
| instrument |
drums
ⓘ
guitar ⓘ percussion ⓘ vocals ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Queen
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Queen + Adam Lambert NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Roger Taylor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | English ⓘ |
| notableAward |
Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music as member of Queen
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee as member of Queen ⓘ Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee as member of Queen ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Kind of Magic (song)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
A Night at the Opera (album) – contributor ⓘ Breakthru NERFINISHED ⓘ Electric Fire (album) NERFINISHED ⓘ Fun It NERFINISHED ⓘ Fun in Space (album) NERFINISHED ⓘ Fun on Earth (album) NERFINISHED ⓘ Happiness? (album) NERFINISHED ⓘ Heaven for Everyone NERFINISHED ⓘ I'm in Love with My Car NERFINISHED ⓘ Innuendo (album) – contributor NERFINISHED ⓘ Innuendo (song) NERFINISHED ⓘ Modern Times Rock 'n' Roll NERFINISHED ⓘ News of the World (album) – contributor ⓘ Radio Ga Ga NERFINISHED ⓘ Rock It (Prime Jive) NERFINISHED ⓘ Sheer Heart Attack (song) NERFINISHED ⓘ Strange Frontier (album) NERFINISHED ⓘ Tenement Funster NERFINISHED ⓘ The Game (album) – contributor ⓘ The Invisible Man (song) NERFINISHED ⓘ These Are the Days of Our Lives NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
drummer
ⓘ
musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | King's Lynn, Norfolk, England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Surrey, England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Sarina Potgieter 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: Roger Taylor Description of subject: Roger Taylor is an English musician best known as the drummer and a songwriter for the rock band Queen.
Referenced by (28)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Union of the Snake