David Paton

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David Paton is a Scottish bassist, singer, and songwriter best known as the frontman of the band Pilot and for his work with artists such as Elton John and Kate Bush.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
David Paton canonical 2

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf bassist
human
musician
songwriter
associatedAct Bay City Rollers NERFINISHED
Billy Lyall NERFINISHED
Camel NERFINISHED
Chris de Burgh NERFINISHED
Dollar NERFINISHED
Elton John NERFINISHED
Fish NERFINISHED
Kate Bush NERFINISHED
Pilot NERFINISHED
Rick Wakeman NERFINISHED
Stuart Tosh NERFINISHED
The Alan Parsons Project NERFINISHED
countryOfCitizenship Scotland
United Kingdom
fieldOfWork popular music
record production
rock music
songwriting
genre pop rock
progressive rock
soft rock
instrument bass guitar
vocals
languageOfWorkOrName English
memberOf Pilot
notableWork January
Magic NERFINISHED
session work for Elton John
session work for Kate Bush
solo album "Fellow Man"
solo album "Fragments"
solo album "Passions"
solo album "The Search"
solo album "The Studio Diary" NERFINISHED
solo album "The Traveller"
songwriting for Pilot hit "January"
songwriting for Pilot hit "Magic"
occupation bassist
record producer
singer
songwriter
positionHeld frontman of Pilot

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: David Paton
Description of subject: David Paton is a Scottish bassist, singer, and songwriter best known as the frontman of the band Pilot and for his work with artists such as Elton John and Kate Bush.

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Magic (song) songwriter David Paton
subject surface form: Magic (Pilot song)
Paton hasNotableBearer David Paton