Tommy Stinson
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Tommy Stinson is an American rock musician and bassist best known as a founding member of the influential alternative rock band The Replacements and later as a longtime member of Guns N’ Roses.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tommy Stinson canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7623712 — 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: Tommy Stinson Context triple: [The Replacements, member, Tommy Stinson]
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A.
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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B.
Scott Asheton
Scott Asheton was an American rock drummer best known as a founding member of the influential proto-punk band The Stooges.
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C.
Benmont Tench
Benmont Tench is an American keyboardist and songwriter best known as a founding member of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and a prolific session musician for numerous rock and Americana artists.
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D.
Tommy Bangs
Tommy Bangs is a fictional character from Louisa May Alcott’s novel "Jo’s Boys," appearing as one of the next-generation children connected to the original March family from "Little Women."
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E.
James Williamson
James Williamson is an American guitarist and songwriter best known for his influential work with the proto-punk band The Stooges, particularly on their landmark album "Raw Power."
- 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: Tommy Stinson Target entity description: Tommy Stinson is an American rock musician and bassist best known as a founding member of the influential alternative rock band The Replacements and later as a longtime member of Guns N’ Roses.
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A.
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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B.
Scott Asheton
Scott Asheton was an American rock drummer best known as a founding member of the influential proto-punk band The Stooges.
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C.
Benmont Tench
Benmont Tench is an American keyboardist and songwriter best known as a founding member of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and a prolific session musician for numerous rock and Americana artists.
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D.
Tommy Bangs
Tommy Bangs is a fictional character from Louisa May Alcott’s novel "Jo’s Boys," appearing as one of the next-generation children connected to the original March family from "Little Women."
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E.
James Williamson
James Williamson is an American guitarist and songwriter best known for his influential work with the proto-punk band The Stooges, particularly on their landmark album "Raw Power."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bassist
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human ⓘ musician ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | late 1970s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Axl Rose
NERFINISHED
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Bash & Pop NERFINISHED ⓘ Paul Westerberg NERFINISHED ⓘ Perfect NERFINISHED ⓘ Soul Asylum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Thomas Eugene Stinson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1966-10-06 ⓘ |
| endTimeInBand |
Guns N’ Roses: 2014
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The Replacements: 1991 ⓘ |
| familyName | Stinson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
alternative rock
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hard rock ⓘ power pop ⓘ punk rock ⓘ |
| givenName | Thomas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSoloAlbum |
One Man Mutiny
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Village Gorilla Head NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| instrument |
bass guitar
ⓘ
guitar ⓘ vocals ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Bash & Pop
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cowboys in the Campfire NERFINISHED ⓘ Guns N’ Roses NERFINISHED ⓘ Perfect NERFINISHED ⓘ Soul Asylum NERFINISHED ⓘ The Replacements NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Tommy Stinson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
founding member of The Replacements
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longtime bassist of Guns N’ Roses ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Guns N’ Roses
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Replacements NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
bassist
ⓘ
guitarist ⓘ musician ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
bassist of Guns N’ Roses
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bassist of The Replacements ⓘ |
| relative | Bob Stinson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sibling | Bob Stinson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startTimeInBand |
Guns N’ Roses: 1998
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The Replacements: 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: Tommy Stinson Description of subject: Tommy Stinson is an American rock musician and bassist best known as a founding member of the influential alternative rock band The Replacements and later as a longtime member of Guns N’ Roses.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.