Roger Glover – bass
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Roger Glover is an English bassist, songwriter, and record producer best known as the longtime bass player for the hard rock band Deep Purple.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Roger Glover – bass canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5577376 — 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 Glover – bass Context triple: [Heartbreaker, hasPerformerRole, Roger Glover – bass]
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A.
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.
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B.
Steve Howe
Steve Howe is an English guitarist best known as the longtime lead guitarist of the progressive rock band Yes and a founding member of the supergroup Asia.
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C.
John Deacon
John Deacon is an English musician best known as the quiet, bass guitarist and songwriter for the rock band Queen.
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D.
Bernie Marsden
Bernie Marsden is an English rock and blues guitarist and songwriter best known as a founding member of Whitesnake and co-writer of several of the band’s biggest hits.
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E.
John Wetton
John Wetton was an English singer, bassist, and songwriter best known for his work with the progressive rock bands King Crimson and Asia.
- 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 Glover – bass Target entity description: Roger Glover is an English bassist, songwriter, and record producer best known as the longtime bass player for the hard rock band Deep Purple.
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A.
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.
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B.
Steve Howe
Steve Howe is an English guitarist best known as the longtime lead guitarist of the progressive rock band Yes and a founding member of the supergroup Asia.
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C.
John Deacon
John Deacon is an English musician best known as the quiet, bass guitarist and songwriter for the rock band Queen.
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D.
Bernie Marsden
Bernie Marsden is an English rock and blues guitarist and songwriter best known as a founding member of Whitesnake and co-writer of several of the band’s biggest hits.
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E.
John Wetton
John Wetton was an English singer, bassist, and songwriter best known for his work with the progressive rock bands King Crimson and Asia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bassist
ⓘ
human ⓘ record producer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1960s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Deep Purple
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Episode Six NERFINISHED ⓘ Rainbow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bestKnownFor | being the longtime bass player for Deep Purple ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1945-11-30 ⓘ |
| genre |
hard rock
ⓘ
heavy metal ⓘ progressive rock ⓘ |
| instrument |
bass guitar
ⓘ
vocals ⓘ |
| joinedBand | Deep Purple Mark II lineup in 1969 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| leftBand | Deep Purple in 1973 ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Deep Purple
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Rainbow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Roger David Glover NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | English ⓘ |
| notableInstrument |
Fender Precision Bass
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Rickenbacker bass guitar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
solo album "Elements"
ⓘ
solo album "If Life Was Easy" NERFINISHED ⓘ solo album "Mask" NERFINISHED ⓘ solo album "Snapshot" NERFINISHED ⓘ solo album "The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
bassist
ⓘ
musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Brecon, Wales, United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producerOf |
Deep Purple album "Fireball"
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Deep Purple album "In Rock" NERFINISHED ⓘ Deep Purple album "Machine Head" NERFINISHED ⓘ Deep Purple live album "Made in Japan" NERFINISHED ⓘ Nazareth album "Loud 'n' Proud" NERFINISHED ⓘ Nazareth album "Rampant" NERFINISHED ⓘ Nazareth album "Razamanaz" NERFINISHED ⓘ Rainbow album "Down to Earth" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
EMI
ⓘ
Polydor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| rejoinedBand | Deep Purple in 1984 ⓘ |
| residence | Switzerland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| songwriterOf |
"Highway Star"
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
"Maybe I'm a Leo" NERFINISHED ⓘ "Pictures of Home" NERFINISHED ⓘ "Smoke on the Water" 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 Glover – bass Description of subject: Roger Glover is an English bassist, songwriter, and record producer best known as the longtime bass player for the hard rock band Deep Purple.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.