Dennis Stratton
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Dennis Stratton is an English guitarist best known for being an early member of the heavy metal band Iron Maiden, contributing to their 1980 debut album before pursuing other musical projects.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dennis Stratton canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5875618 — 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: Dennis Stratton Context triple: [Iron Maiden, formerMember, Dennis Stratton]
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A.
Gil Stratton
Gil Stratton was an American character actor and sportscaster known for his roles in mid-20th-century films and television, as well as his long career in Los Angeles sports broadcasting.
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B.
Dennis Sharp
Dennis Sharp was a British architect, historian, and critic known for his influential writings on modern architecture and his work in architectural education.
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C.
Phil Judd
Phil Judd is a New Zealand musician and songwriter best known as a founding member of Split Enz and later the new wave band The Swingers.
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D.
Tony Denison
Tony Denison is an American actor best known for his role as Detective Andy Flynn on the crime dramas "The Closer" and its spin-off "Major Crimes."
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E.
Dennis Graham
Dennis Graham is an American musician and drummer best known as the father of Canadian rapper and singer Drake.
- 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: Dennis Stratton Target entity description: Dennis Stratton is an English guitarist best known for being an early member of the heavy metal band Iron Maiden, contributing to their 1980 debut album before pursuing other musical projects.
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A.
Gil Stratton
Gil Stratton was an American character actor and sportscaster known for his roles in mid-20th-century films and television, as well as his long career in Los Angeles sports broadcasting.
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B.
Dennis Sharp
Dennis Sharp was a British architect, historian, and critic known for his influential writings on modern architecture and his work in architectural education.
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C.
Phil Judd
Phil Judd is a New Zealand musician and songwriter best known as a founding member of Split Enz and later the new wave band The Swingers.
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D.
Tony Denison
Tony Denison is an American actor best known for his role as Detective Andy Flynn on the crime dramas "The Closer" and its spin-off "Major Crimes."
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E.
Dennis Graham
Dennis Graham is an American musician and drummer best known as the father of Canadian rapper and singer Drake.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
guitarist
ⓘ
human ⓘ musician ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activeInGenre |
hard rock
ⓘ
heavy metal ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Iron Maiden
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lionheart NERFINISHED ⓘ Praying Mantis NERFINISHED ⓘ Remus Down Boulevard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contributedTo | Iron Maiden (1980 album) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| endTimeOfMembershipInIronMaiden | 1980 ⓘ |
| familyName | Stratton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
music
ⓘ
songwriting ⓘ |
| genre |
hard rock
ⓘ
heavy metal ⓘ |
| givenName | Dennis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPartIn |
live performances with Iron Maiden
ⓘ
live performances with Praying Mantis ⓘ |
| hasSexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| instrument | electric guitar ⓘ |
| knownFor |
appearing on Iron Maiden's 1980 debut album
ⓘ
being an early guitarist for Iron Maiden ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Iron Maiden
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lionheart NERFINISHED ⓘ Praying Mantis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Dennis Stratton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | English ⓘ |
| notableRole | early member of Iron Maiden ⓘ |
| notableWork | Iron Maiden (1980 album) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
guitarist
ⓘ
musician ⓘ |
| partOf | New Wave of British Heavy Metal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performerOf | guitar solos ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
London, England
ⓘ
surface form:
London
|
| residence | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| startTimeOfMembershipInIronMaiden | 1979 ⓘ |
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: Dennis Stratton Description of subject: Dennis Stratton is an English guitarist best known for being an early member of the heavy metal band Iron Maiden, contributing to their 1980 debut album before pursuing other musical projects.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.