Bob Stinson
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Bob Stinson was an American guitarist best known as the original lead guitarist and a founding member of the influential alternative rock band The Replacements.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bob Stinson canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7623711 — 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: Bob Stinson Context triple: [The Replacements, member, Bob Stinson]
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A.
Jimmy Chambers
Jimmy Chambers is a British singer and songwriter best known as a member of the band Londonbeat, contributing to their international hit "I've Been Thinking About You."
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B.
Mike Starr
Mike Starr was an American bassist best known as the original bass player for the Seattle grunge band Alice in Chains.
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C.
Mike Starr
Mike Starr is an American character actor known for his imposing presence and frequent roles as tough guys or mobsters in films and television.
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D.
Eddie Stinson
Eddie Stinson was an American aviation pioneer and aircraft manufacturer known for founding the Stinson Aircraft Company and producing popular light and commercial airplanes in the early 20th century.
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E.
Jack Stapp
Jack Stapp was an influential American country music executive and publisher who played a key role in shaping Nashville’s music industry and co-founding major industry institutions.
- 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: Bob Stinson Target entity description: Bob Stinson was an American guitarist best known as the original lead guitarist and a founding member of the influential alternative rock band The Replacements.
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A.
Jimmy Chambers
Jimmy Chambers is a British singer and songwriter best known as a member of the band Londonbeat, contributing to their international hit "I've Been Thinking About You."
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B.
Mike Starr
Mike Starr was an American bassist best known as the original bass player for the Seattle grunge band Alice in Chains.
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C.
Mike Starr
Mike Starr is an American character actor known for his imposing presence and frequent roles as tough guys or mobsters in films and television.
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D.
Eddie Stinson
Eddie Stinson was an American aviation pioneer and aircraft manufacturer known for founding the Stinson Aircraft Company and producing popular light and commercial airplanes in the early 20th century.
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E.
Jack Stapp
Jack Stapp was an influential American country music executive and publisher who played a key role in shaping Nashville’s music industry and co-founding major industry institutions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
guitarist
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human ⓘ musician ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1995 ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | late 1970s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Static Taxi
NERFINISHED
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The Bleeding Hearts NERFINISHED ⓘ The Replacements NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Robert Neil Stinson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | organ failure ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1959-12-17 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1995-02-18 ⓘ |
| ethnicity | White American ⓘ |
| familyName | Stinson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundingMemberOf | The Replacements NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
alternative rock
ⓘ
punk rock ⓘ rock music ⓘ |
| givenName | Robert ⓘ |
| influencedGenre | alternative rock ⓘ |
| instrument | guitar ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | The Replacements NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Bob Stinson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAlbumContribution |
Hootenanny
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Let It Be (The Replacements album) NERFINISHED ⓘ Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash NERFINISHED ⓘ Tim (The Replacements album) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being a founding member of The Replacements
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being the original lead guitarist of The Replacements ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Replacements – early recordings NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
guitarist
ⓘ
musician ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Wadena, Minnesota, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionInBand | lead guitarist ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Sire Records
NERFINISHED
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Twin/Tone Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexualOrientation | heterosexual ⓘ |
| sibling | Tommy Stinson 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: Bob Stinson Description of subject: Bob Stinson was an American guitarist best known as the original lead guitarist and a founding member of the influential alternative rock band The Replacements.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.