Brann Dailor – drums, vocals
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Brann Dailor is an American drummer and vocalist best known as a founding member of the progressive metal band Mastodon, acclaimed for his complex, technical playing style and distinctive singing.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Brann Dailor – drums, vocals canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5875564 — 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: Brann Dailor – drums, vocals Context triple: [Mastodon, hasRole, Brann Dailor – drums, vocals]
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A.
Brandon Pertzborn – drums
Brandon Pertzborn is an American rock drummer known for performing and recording with the punk rock band The Offspring.
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B.
Brian Downey (drummer)
Brian Downey is an Irish drummer best known as a founding member of the hard rock band Thin Lizzy.
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C.
Lars Ulrich – drums
Lars Ulrich is the Danish-born co-founder and longtime drummer of the influential heavy metal band Metallica.
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D.
David S. Field – drums
David S. Field is a drummer known for performing on the "Bullets" EP.
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E.
Bryan Devendorf – drums, percussion
Bryan Devendorf is an American drummer and percussionist best known as the rhythmic backbone of the indie rock band The National.
- 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: Brann Dailor – drums, vocals Target entity description: Brann Dailor is an American drummer and vocalist best known as a founding member of the progressive metal band Mastodon, acclaimed for his complex, technical playing style and distinctive singing.
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A.
Brandon Pertzborn – drums
Brandon Pertzborn is an American rock drummer known for performing and recording with the punk rock band The Offspring.
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B.
Brian Downey (drummer)
Brian Downey is an Irish drummer best known as a founding member of the hard rock band Thin Lizzy.
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C.
Lars Ulrich – drums
Lars Ulrich is the Danish-born co-founder and longtime drummer of the influential heavy metal band Metallica.
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D.
David S. Field – drums
David S. Field is a drummer known for performing on the "Bullets" EP.
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E.
Bryan Devendorf – drums, percussion
Bryan Devendorf is an American drummer and percussionist best known as the rhythmic backbone of the indie rock band The National.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
drummer
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human ⓘ songwriter ⓘ vocalist ⓘ |
| activeIn | 21st century ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Lethargy
NERFINISHED
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Mastodon NERFINISHED ⓘ Today Is the Day NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| genre |
heavy metal
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progressive metal ⓘ sludge metal ⓘ |
| hasCreativeRole |
lyric writing in Mastodon
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vocal melody writing in Mastodon ⓘ |
| instrument |
drum kit
ⓘ
vocals ⓘ |
| knownFor |
complex drumming style
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simultaneous drumming and singing ⓘ technical drumming ⓘ use of intricate fills ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Mastodon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicStyle |
busy, fill-heavy approach
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polyrhythmic patterns ⓘ progressive metal drumming ⓘ |
| nationality |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| notableWork |
Mastodon – Blood Mountain
NERFINISHED
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Mastodon – Crack the Skye NERFINISHED ⓘ Mastodon – Emperor of Sand NERFINISHED ⓘ Mastodon – Hushed and Grim NERFINISHED ⓘ Mastodon – Leviathan NERFINISHED ⓘ Mastodon – Once More ’Round the Sun NERFINISHED ⓘ Mastodon – Remission NERFINISHED ⓘ Mastodon – The Hunter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
drummer
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songwriter ⓘ vocalist ⓘ |
| recordLabelAssociated |
Relapse Records
NERFINISHED
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Reprise Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Warner Bros. Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roleInBand |
drummer of Mastodon
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founding member of Mastodon ⓘ vocalist of Mastodon ⓘ |
| vocalType | clean vocals ⓘ |
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: Brann Dailor – drums, vocals Description of subject: Brann Dailor is an American drummer and vocalist best known as a founding member of the progressive metal band Mastodon, acclaimed for his complex, technical playing style and distinctive singing.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.