Brent Mydland
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Brent Mydland was an American keyboardist, singer, and songwriter best known for his long tenure with the rock band the Grateful Dead from 1979 until his death in 1990.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Brent Mydland canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5919985 — 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: Brent Mydland Context triple: [Bill Kreutzmann, notableBandmate, Brent Mydland]
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A.
Richie Furay
Richie Furay is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist best known as a founding member of the influential country rock band Poco and for his role in pioneering the country rock genre.
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B.
Randy Meisner
Randy Meisner was an American bassist, singer, and songwriter best known as a founding member of the rock band Eagles and for singing lead on their hit "Take It to the Limit."
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C.
Chris Robinson
Chris Robinson is an American music video and film director known for his visually distinctive work with major R&B and hip-hop artists.
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D.
Dale Crover
Dale Crover is an American drummer best known for his long tenure with the Melvins and his early, influential recordings and performances with Nirvana.
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E.
Deryck Guyler
Deryck Guyler was a British character actor and comedian best known for his roles in mid-20th-century radio and television sitcoms.
- 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: Brent Mydland Target entity description: Brent Mydland was an American keyboardist, singer, and songwriter best known for his long tenure with the rock band the Grateful Dead from 1979 until his death in 1990.
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A.
Richie Furay
Richie Furay is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist best known as a founding member of the influential country rock band Poco and for his role in pioneering the country rock genre.
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B.
Randy Meisner
Randy Meisner was an American bassist, singer, and songwriter best known as a founding member of the rock band Eagles and for singing lead on their hit "Take It to the Limit."
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C.
Chris Robinson
Chris Robinson is an American music video and film director known for his visually distinctive work with major R&B and hip-hop artists.
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D.
Dale Crover
Dale Crover is an American drummer best known for his long tenure with the Melvins and his early, influential recordings and performances with Nirvana.
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E.
Deryck Guyler
Deryck Guyler was a British character actor and comedian best known for his roles in mid-20th-century radio and television sitcoms.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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keyboardist ⓘ musician ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Bobby and the Midnites
NERFINISHED
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Go Ahead NERFINISHED ⓘ Grateful Dead NERFINISHED ⓘ Silver NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bandmate |
Bill Kreutzmann
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bob Weir NERFINISHED ⓘ Jerry Garcia NERFINISHED ⓘ Mickey Hart NERFINISHED ⓘ Phil Lesh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | drug overdose ⓘ |
| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | West Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1952-10-21 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1990-07-26 ⓘ |
| endTimeInBand_GratefulDead | 1990 ⓘ |
| familyName | Mydland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Brent Mydland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
country rock
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jam band ⓘ psychedelic rock ⓘ rock music ⓘ |
| givenName | Brent NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| instrument |
Hammond organ
NERFINISHED
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keyboards ⓘ organ ⓘ piano ⓘ synthesizer ⓘ vocals ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Grateful Dead NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | long tenure as keyboardist for the Grateful Dead from 1979 to 1990 ⓘ |
| notableWork |
“Blow Away”
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
“Easy to Love You” NERFINISHED ⓘ “Far From Me” NERFINISHED ⓘ “Just a Little Light” NERFINISHED ⓘ “Tons of Steel” NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
keyboardist
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singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Munich NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Lafayette, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| replaced | Keith Godchaux NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roleInBand_GratefulDead |
keyboardist
ⓘ
vocalist ⓘ |
| startTimeInBand_GratefulDead | 1979 ⓘ |
| yearsActive |
1970s
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1980s ⓘ |
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: Brent Mydland Description of subject: Brent Mydland was an American keyboardist, singer, and songwriter best known for his long tenure with the rock band the Grateful Dead from 1979 until his death in 1990.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.