Bruford
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Bruford was a British jazz-fusion and progressive rock band led by drummer Bill Bruford, known for its complex compositions and virtuosic musicianship.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bruford canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5884509 — 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: Bruford Context triple: [Bill Bruford, memberOf, Bruford]
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A.
Bill Bruford
Bill Bruford is an English drummer and percussionist best known for his innovative work in progressive rock with bands such as Yes, King Crimson, and his own group Bruford.
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B.
Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe
Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe was a progressive rock supergroup formed by former Yes members Jon Anderson, Bill Bruford, Rick Wakeman, and Steve Howe as a vehicle to continue the classic Yes sound outside the main band.
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C.
Billy Cobham
Billy Cobham is a Panamanian-American jazz fusion drummer renowned for his virtuosic technique and influential work in both solo projects and collaborations with leading fusion artists.
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D.
Steve Hackett
Steve Hackett is an English guitarist and songwriter best known as the lead guitarist of the progressive rock band Genesis during their classic 1970s era and for his subsequent solo career.
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E.
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.
- 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: Bruford Target entity description: Bruford was a British jazz-fusion and progressive rock band led by drummer Bill Bruford, known for its complex compositions and virtuosic musicianship.
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A.
Bill Bruford
Bill Bruford is an English drummer and percussionist best known for his innovative work in progressive rock with bands such as Yes, King Crimson, and his own group Bruford.
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B.
Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe
Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe was a progressive rock supergroup formed by former Yes members Jon Anderson, Bill Bruford, Rick Wakeman, and Steve Howe as a vehicle to continue the classic Yes sound outside the main band.
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C.
Billy Cobham
Billy Cobham is a Panamanian-American jazz fusion drummer renowned for his virtuosic technique and influential work in both solo projects and collaborations with leading fusion artists.
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D.
Steve Hackett
Steve Hackett is an English guitarist and songwriter best known as the lead guitarist of the progressive rock band Genesis during their classic 1970s era and for his subsequent solo career.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British jazz fusion band
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band ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | late 1970s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Bill Bruford
NERFINISHED
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King Crimson NERFINISHED ⓘ National Health NERFINISHED ⓘ U.K. NERFINISHED ⓘ Yes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bassist | Jeff Berlin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| debutAlbum | Feels Good to Me NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| drummer | Bill Bruford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followUpAlbum | One of a Kind NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
jazz fusion
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progressive rock ⓘ |
| guitarist | Allan Holdsworth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Allan Holdsworth
NERFINISHED
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Annette Peacock NERFINISHED ⓘ Bill Bruford NERFINISHED ⓘ Dave Stewart NERFINISHED ⓘ Jeff Berlin NERFINISHED ⓘ John Clark NERFINISHED ⓘ The Unknown John Clark NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| keyboardist | Dave Stewart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
complex compositions
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virtuosic musicianship ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| leader | Bill Bruford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| liveAlbum | The Bruford Tapes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Bill Bruford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Feels Good to Me
NERFINISHED
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Gradually Going Tornado NERFINISHED ⓘ One of a Kind NERFINISHED ⓘ The Bruford Tapes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordedWithLabel |
EG Records
NERFINISHED
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Polydor Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| studioAlbum |
Feels Good to Me
NERFINISHED
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Gradually Going Tornado NERFINISHED ⓘ One of a Kind NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| styleCharacteristic |
extended instrumental passages
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jazz-influenced harmony ⓘ odd time signatures ⓘ |
| vocalist | Annette Peacock 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: Bruford Description of subject: Bruford was a British jazz-fusion and progressive rock band led by drummer Bill Bruford, known for its complex compositions and virtuosic musicianship.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.