Steve Foley – drums
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Steve Foley was an American drummer best known for his work with the alternative rock band The Replacements in the early 1990s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Steve Foley – drums canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7623721 — 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: Steve Foley – drums Context triple: [The Replacements, hasRole, Steve Foley – drums]
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A.
Steve Jordan (drums)
Steve Jordan is an American drummer, producer, and songwriter renowned for his work with artists like John Mayer, the Rolling Stones, and in the Saturday Night Live and Late Night with David Letterman bands.
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B.
Chris Layton – drums
Chris Layton is an American drummer best known as the longtime percussionist for Stevie Ray Vaughan’s blues-rock band Double Trouble.
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C.
Brian Downey (drummer)
Brian Downey is an Irish drummer best known as a founding member of the hard rock band Thin Lizzy.
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D.
Dan Lumley (drummer)
Dan Lumley is an American punk rock drummer best known for his work with the band Squirtgun and other acts on the Lookout! Records roster.
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E.
David S. Field – drums
David S. Field is a drummer known for performing on the "Bullets" EP.
- 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: Steve Foley – drums Target entity description: Steve Foley was an American drummer best known for his work with the alternative rock band The Replacements in the early 1990s.
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A.
Steve Jordan (drums)
Steve Jordan is an American drummer, producer, and songwriter renowned for his work with artists like John Mayer, the Rolling Stones, and in the Saturday Night Live and Late Night with David Letterman bands.
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B.
Chris Layton – drums
Chris Layton is an American drummer best known as the longtime percussionist for Stevie Ray Vaughan’s blues-rock band Double Trouble.
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C.
Brian Downey (drummer)
Brian Downey is an Irish drummer best known as a founding member of the hard rock band Thin Lizzy.
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D.
Dan Lumley (drummer)
Dan Lumley is an American punk rock drummer best known for his work with the band Squirtgun and other acts on the Lookout! Records roster.
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E.
David S. Field – drums
David S. Field is a drummer known for performing on the "Bullets" EP.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
drummer
ⓘ
human ⓘ musician ⓘ |
| activeIn | 1990s ⓘ |
| associatedAct | The Replacements NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
alternative rock music
ⓘ
music ⓘ rock music ⓘ |
| genre |
alternative rock
ⓘ
rock music ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Foley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Steve NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRole |
band member
ⓘ
touring musician ⓘ |
| instrument |
drum kit
ⓘ
percussion ⓘ |
| knownFor | being drummer for The Replacements after Chris Mars left the band ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | The Replacements NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | United States of America ⓘ |
| notableWork | drumming with The Replacements in the early 1990s ⓘ |
| occupation |
drummer
ⓘ
musician ⓘ |
| partOf | American rock music scene ⓘ |
| performerIn | live performances with The Replacements ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation | United States of America ⓘ |
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: Steve Foley – drums Description of subject: Steve Foley was an American drummer best known for his work with the alternative rock band The Replacements in the early 1990s.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.