Skip Spence
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Skip Spence was a Canadian-born musician and songwriter best known as a founding member of Jefferson Airplane and the drummer-turned-frontman of the psychedelic rock band Moby Grape.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Skip Spence canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5364346 — 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: Skip Spence Context triple: [Jefferson Airplane, foundedBy, Skip Spence]
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A.
Dele Alli
Dele Alli is an English professional footballer, best known as an attacking midfielder for Tottenham Hotspur and the England national team during the mid-2010s.
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B.
Alphonso Davies
Alphonso Davies is a Canadian professional soccer player known for his explosive pace and versatility as a left-back and winger for Bayern Munich and the Canadian national team.
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C.
Enzo Fernández
Enzo Fernández is an Argentine central midfielder renowned for his dynamic playmaking and ball-winning abilities, who rose to global prominence with standout performances for Argentina and top European clubs.
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D.
Ryan Bamford
Ryan Bamford is a collegiate athletics administrator best known for serving as the athletic director at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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E.
Les Ferdinand
Les Ferdinand is a former English professional footballer and prolific striker best known for his goal-scoring exploits in the Premier League during the 1990s, particularly with Queens Park Rangers, Newcastle United, and Tottenham Hotspur.
- 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: Skip Spence Target entity description: Skip Spence was a Canadian-born musician and songwriter best known as a founding member of Jefferson Airplane and the drummer-turned-frontman of the psychedelic rock band Moby Grape.
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A.
Dele Alli
Dele Alli is an English professional footballer, best known as an attacking midfielder for Tottenham Hotspur and the England national team during the mid-2010s.
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B.
Alphonso Davies
Alphonso Davies is a Canadian professional soccer player known for his explosive pace and versatility as a left-back and winger for Bayern Munich and the Canadian national team.
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C.
Enzo Fernández
Enzo Fernández is an Argentine central midfielder renowned for his dynamic playmaking and ball-winning abilities, who rose to global prominence with standout performances for Argentina and top European clubs.
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D.
Ryan Bamford
Ryan Bamford is a collegiate athletics administrator best known for serving as the athletic director at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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E.
Les Ferdinand
Les Ferdinand is a former English professional footballer and prolific striker best known for his goal-scoring exploits in the Premier League during the 1990s, particularly with Queens Park Rangers, Newcastle United, and Tottenham Hotspur.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
drummer
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guitarist ⓘ human ⓘ musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1960s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Jefferson Airplane
NERFINISHED
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Moby Grape NERFINISHED ⓘ Quicksilver Messenger Service NERFINISHED ⓘ The Other Side NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Alexander Lee Spence NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Soquel Cemetery, Soquel, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | lung cancer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Canada ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1946-04-18 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1999-04-16 ⓘ |
| genre |
acid rock
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folk rock ⓘ psychedelic rock ⓘ rock ⓘ |
| givenName | Alexander ⓘ |
| instrument |
drums
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guitar ⓘ vocals ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Jefferson Airplane
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Moby Grape NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement | San Francisco Sound NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Skip Spence NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nickname | Skip NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
founding member of Jefferson Airplane
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frontman of Moby Grape ⓘ |
| notableWork | Oar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
drummer
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guitarist ⓘ musician ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Windsor, Ontario, Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Santa Cruz, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionInBand |
drummer for Jefferson Airplane
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guitarist for Moby Grape ⓘ vocalist for Moby Grape ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Columbia Records ⓘ |
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: Skip Spence Description of subject: Skip Spence was a Canadian-born musician and songwriter best known as a founding member of Jefferson Airplane and the drummer-turned-frontman of the psychedelic rock band Moby Grape.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.