Eric Woolfson
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Eric Woolfson was a Scottish songwriter, lyricist, and producer best known as the co-creator and primary songwriter of The Alan Parsons Project.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Eric Woolfson canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6042858 — 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: Eric Woolfson Context triple: [Albedo 0.39 (track), composer, Eric Woolfson]
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A.
Geoffrey Faithfull
Geoffrey Faithfull was a British cinematographer known for his work on numerous films from the silent era through the mid-20th century, including the classic science fiction horror film "Village of the Damned."
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B.
Kevin Godley
Kevin Godley is a British musician and acclaimed music video director, best known as a founding member of 10cc and for his innovative, visually inventive work in the medium.
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C.
Ron Goodwin
Ron Goodwin was a British composer and conductor best known for his rousing film scores for war and adventure movies in the mid-20th century.
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D.
Rod Temperton
Rod Temperton was a British songwriter and former member of the band Heatwave, best known for penning several of Michael Jackson’s biggest hits, including songs on the landmark album "Thriller."
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E.
Graham Gouldman
Graham Gouldman is an English singer, songwriter, and musician best known as a founding member of the art-pop band 10cc and for writing numerous hit songs for British Invasion groups in the 1960s.
- 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: Eric Woolfson Target entity description: Eric Woolfson was a Scottish songwriter, lyricist, and producer best known as the co-creator and primary songwriter of The Alan Parsons Project.
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A.
Geoffrey Faithfull
Geoffrey Faithfull was a British cinematographer known for his work on numerous films from the silent era through the mid-20th century, including the classic science fiction horror film "Village of the Damned."
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B.
Kevin Godley
Kevin Godley is a British musician and acclaimed music video director, best known as a founding member of 10cc and for his innovative, visually inventive work in the medium.
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C.
Ron Goodwin
Ron Goodwin was a British composer and conductor best known for his rousing film scores for war and adventure movies in the mid-20th century.
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D.
Rod Temperton
Rod Temperton was a British songwriter and former member of the band Heatwave, best known for penning several of Michael Jackson’s biggest hits, including songs on the landmark album "Thriller."
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E.
Graham Gouldman
Graham Gouldman is an English singer, songwriter, and musician best known as a founding member of the art-pop band 10cc and for writing numerous hit songs for British Invasion groups in the 1960s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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record producer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 2009 ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1960s ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1945-03-18 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Glasgow
NERFINISHED
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Scotland ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | kidney cancer ⓘ |
| coCreatorOf | The Alan Parsons Project NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | Alan Parsons NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| deathDate | 2009-12-02 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jewish ⓘ |
| genre |
art rock
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pop rock ⓘ progressive rock ⓘ |
| instrument |
keyboards
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piano ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | The Alan Parsons Project NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Eric Norman Woolfson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Don’t Answer Me
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Eye in the Sky NERFINISHED ⓘ Games People Play NERFINISHED ⓘ I Robot NERFINISHED ⓘ Tales of Mystery and Imagination NERFINISHED ⓘ The Alan Parsons Project NERFINISHED ⓘ The Turn of a Friendly Card NERFINISHED ⓘ Time ⓘ |
| occupation |
composer
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lyricist ⓘ pianist ⓘ record producer ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
England
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London, England ⓘ
surface form:
London
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| primarySongwriterOf | The Alan Parsons Project NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| wroteMusical |
Freudiana
NERFINISHED
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Gambler NERFINISHED ⓘ Gaudi NERFINISHED ⓘ Poe 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: Eric Woolfson Description of subject: Eric Woolfson was a Scottish songwriter, lyricist, and producer best known as the co-creator and primary songwriter of The Alan Parsons Project.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.