Doug Clifford
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Doug Clifford is an American rock drummer best known as the co-founder and drummer of the band Creedence Clearwater Revival.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Doug Clifford canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5364415 — 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: Doug Clifford Context triple: [Creedence Clearwater Revival, member, Doug Clifford]
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A.
Dick Clair
Dick Clair was an American television producer, writer, and actor best known for co-creating popular sitcoms such as "The Facts of Life" and "Mama's Family."
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B.
Rocky Carroll
Rocky Carroll is an American actor best known for his role as Director Leon Vance on the long-running television series NCIS.
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C.
Del Harris
Del Harris is an American basketball coach best known for his long NBA coaching career, including head coaching stints with the Houston Rockets, Milwaukee Bucks, and Los Angeles Lakers.
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D.
Roger Craig
Roger Craig was an American Major League Baseball pitcher and manager best known for managing the San Francisco Giants in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
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E.
Tony Eason
Tony Eason is a former American football quarterback best known for playing in the NFL during the 1980s, primarily with the New England Patriots.
- 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: Doug Clifford Target entity description: Doug Clifford is an American rock drummer best known as the co-founder and drummer of the band Creedence Clearwater Revival.
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A.
Dick Clair
Dick Clair was an American television producer, writer, and actor best known for co-creating popular sitcoms such as "The Facts of Life" and "Mama's Family."
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B.
Rocky Carroll
Rocky Carroll is an American actor best known for his role as Director Leon Vance on the long-running television series NCIS.
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C.
Del Harris
Del Harris is an American basketball coach best known for his long NBA coaching career, including head coaching stints with the Houston Rockets, Milwaukee Bucks, and Los Angeles Lakers.
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D.
Roger Craig
Roger Craig was an American Major League Baseball pitcher and manager best known for managing the San Francisco Giants in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
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E.
Tony Eason
Tony Eason is a former American football quarterback best known for playing in the NFL during the 1980s, primarily with the New England Patriots.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
drummer
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human ⓘ musician ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1960s ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Cosmo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Creedence Clearwater Revisited
NERFINISHED
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Creedence Clearwater Revival NERFINISHED ⓘ John Fogerty NERFINISHED ⓘ Stu Cook NERFINISHED ⓘ Tom Fogerty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Douglas Raymond Clifford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coFounderOf | Creedence Clearwater Revival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1945-04-24 ⓘ |
| familyName | Clifford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
country rock
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rock ⓘ roots rock ⓘ swamp rock ⓘ |
| givenName | Douglas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedGenre | roots rock ⓘ |
| instrument | drum kit ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Creedence Clearwater Revisited
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Creedence Clearwater Revival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Doug Clifford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent | induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Creedence Clearwater Revival in 1993 ⓘ |
| notableFeature | straight-ahead rock drumming style ⓘ |
| notableSongAsPerformer |
Bad Moon Rising
NERFINISHED
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Fortunate Son NERFINISHED ⓘ Have You Ever Seen the Rain? NERFINISHED ⓘ Proud Mary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Bayou Country
NERFINISHED
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Cosmo (solo album) NERFINISHED ⓘ Cosmo's Factory NERFINISHED ⓘ Green River NERFINISHED ⓘ Mardi Gras ⓘ Pendulum NERFINISHED ⓘ Willy and the Poor Boys NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
drummer
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record producer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Palo Alto, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Fantasy Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Reno, Nevada, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Laurie Clifford 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: Doug Clifford Description of subject: Doug Clifford is an American rock drummer best known as the co-founder and drummer of the band Creedence Clearwater Revival.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.