Spencer Dryden
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Spencer Dryden was an American drummer best known for his influential work with the psychedelic rock band Jefferson Airplane during the late 1960s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Spencer Dryden canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5364352 — 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: Spencer Dryden Context triple: [Jefferson Airplane, notableMember, Spencer Dryden]
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A.
Jeremy Spenser
Jeremy Spenser is a British actor best known for his film and stage work in the 1950s and 1960s, including notable roles in classic British cinema.
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B.
Aaron Burckhard
Aaron Burckhard is an American drummer best known as one of the earliest drummers for the grunge band Nirvana during its formative years.
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C.
Adam Ryen
Adam Ryen is a voice actor best known for providing the voice of Cody in Disney's animated film "The Rescuers Down Under."
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D.
Spencer James
Spencer James is the ambitious high school football star from South Crenshaw whose life, family, and identity struggles drive the drama series "All American."
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E.
Zahn McClarnon
Zahn McClarnon is a Native American actor known for his intense, nuanced performances in television series such as "Longmire," "Westworld," "Reservation Dogs," and Marvel's "Hawkeye."
- 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: Spencer Dryden Target entity description: Spencer Dryden was an American drummer best known for his influential work with the psychedelic rock band Jefferson Airplane during the late 1960s.
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A.
Jeremy Spenser
Jeremy Spenser is a British actor best known for his film and stage work in the 1950s and 1960s, including notable roles in classic British cinema.
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B.
Aaron Burckhard
Aaron Burckhard is an American drummer best known as one of the earliest drummers for the grunge band Nirvana during its formative years.
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C.
Adam Ryen
Adam Ryen is a voice actor best known for providing the voice of Cody in Disney's animated film "The Rescuers Down Under."
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D.
Spencer James
Spencer James is the ambitious high school football star from South Crenshaw whose life, family, and identity struggles drive the drama series "All American."
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E.
Zahn McClarnon
Zahn McClarnon is a Native American actor known for his intense, nuanced performances in television series such as "Longmire," "Westworld," "Reservation Dogs," and Marvel's "Hawkeye."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
drummer
ⓘ
human ⓘ musician ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1960s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Jefferson Airplane
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New Riders of the Purple Sage NERFINISHED ⓘ The Dinosaurs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Spencer Charles Dryden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | colon cancer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1938-04-07 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2005-01-11 ⓘ |
| era | 1960s rock ⓘ |
| ethnicity | American of English and other European descent ⓘ |
| genre |
psychedelic rock
ⓘ
rock music ⓘ |
| hasChild | sons (three) ⓘ |
| instrument | drums ⓘ |
| knownFor |
innovative drumming in psychedelic rock
ⓘ
work with Jefferson Airplane in the late 1960s ⓘ |
| leftBand | Jefferson Airplane NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Jefferson Airplane
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New Riders of the Purple Sage NERFINISHED ⓘ The Dinosaurs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Spencer Dryden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAlbum |
After Bathing at Baxter’s (as member of Jefferson Airplane)
NERFINISHED
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Crown of Creation (as member of Jefferson Airplane) NERFINISHED ⓘ Surrealistic Pillow (as member of Jefferson Airplane) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
performed at Woodstock-related era concerts with Jefferson Airplane
ⓘ
performed at the Monterey Pop Festival with Jefferson Airplane ⓘ |
| notableWork | drumming with Jefferson Airplane ⓘ |
| occupation |
drummer
ⓘ
musician ⓘ |
| participatedIn | San Francisco psychedelic rock scene ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | New York City, New York, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Petaluma, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel | RCA Records (via Jefferson Airplane) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relative | Charlie Chaplin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| replaced | Skip Spence as Jefferson Airplane drummer ⓘ |
| residence | California, United States ⓘ |
| spouse | Sally Mann (divorced) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| style | psychedelic rock drumming ⓘ |
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: Spencer Dryden Description of subject: Spencer Dryden was an American drummer best known for his influential work with the psychedelic rock band Jefferson Airplane during the late 1960s.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.