Corky Laing
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Corky Laing is a Canadian rock drummer best known as a longtime member of the hard rock band Mountain.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Corky Laing canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9680170 — 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: Corky Laing Context triple: [One Little Indian Records, associatedAct, Corky Laing]
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A.
Randle Patrick McMurphy
Randle Patrick McMurphy is a rebellious, charismatic patient in a mental institution whose defiance against authoritarian control drives the central conflict of *One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest*.
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B.
John McNaughton
John McNaughton is an American film and television director best known for his dark, provocative works such as the cult thriller "Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer."
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C.
Travis Bickle
Travis Bickle is the mentally unstable, alienated Vietnam War veteran who becomes a vigilante in Martin Scorsese’s film "Taxi Driver."
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D.
Richard Alpert
Richard Alpert, later known as Ram Dass, was an American psychologist and spiritual teacher renowned for his pioneering work with psychedelics and his influential writings on consciousness and Eastern philosophy.
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E.
Burt Gurney
Burt Gurney is a fictional 1950s Hollywood song-and-dance star and secretly communist actor portrayed by Channing Tatum in the Coen brothers’ film "Hail, Caesar!".
- 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: Corky Laing Target entity description: Corky Laing is a Canadian rock drummer best known as a longtime member of the hard rock band Mountain.
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A.
Randle Patrick McMurphy
Randle Patrick McMurphy is a rebellious, charismatic patient in a mental institution whose defiance against authoritarian control drives the central conflict of *One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest*.
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B.
John McNaughton
John McNaughton is an American film and television director best known for his dark, provocative works such as the cult thriller "Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer."
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C.
Travis Bickle
Travis Bickle is the mentally unstable, alienated Vietnam War veteran who becomes a vigilante in Martin Scorsese’s film "Taxi Driver."
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D.
Richard Alpert
Richard Alpert, later known as Ram Dass, was an American psychologist and spiritual teacher renowned for his pioneering work with psychedelics and his influential writings on consciousness and Eastern philosophy.
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E.
Burt Gurney
Burt Gurney is a fictional 1950s Hollywood song-and-dance star and secretly communist actor portrayed by Channing Tatum in the Coen brothers’ film "Hail, Caesar!".
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
rock drummer ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1960s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Bo Diddley
NERFINISHED
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Jack Bruce NERFINISHED ⓘ Leslie West NERFINISHED ⓘ Meat Loaf NERFINISHED ⓘ Mick Jones NERFINISHED ⓘ Mountain NERFINISHED ⓘ West, Bruce and Laing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Laurence Gordon Laing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Canada ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Canada ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1948-01-26 ⓘ |
| familyName | Laing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
live performance
ⓘ
popular music ⓘ |
| genre |
blues rock
ⓘ
hard rock ⓘ rock ⓘ |
| givenName | Laurence NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| instrument | drum kit ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Mountain
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
West, Bruce and Laing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Corky Laing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | Canadian ⓘ |
| nickname | Corky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAlbum |
Climbing!
NERFINISHED
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Nantucket Sleighride NERFINISHED ⓘ Whatever Turns You On NERFINISHED ⓘ Why Dontcha NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being drummer of Mountain
ⓘ
being member of West, Bruce and Laing ⓘ |
| notableSongAsDrummer |
Mississippi Queen
GENERATED
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Nantucket Sleighride GENERATED ⓘ Theme for an Imaginary Western GENERATED ⓘ |
| notableWork | Mississippi Queen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
drummer
ⓘ
musician ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Montreal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Columbia Records
ⓘ
Windfall Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
Canada
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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How these facts were elicited
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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: Corky Laing Description of subject: Corky Laing is a Canadian rock drummer best known as a longtime member of the hard rock band Mountain.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.