Gordon Moakes
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Gordon Moakes is an English musician best known as the bassist and backing vocalist of the indie rock band Bloc Party.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gordon Moakes canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9727114 — 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: Gordon Moakes Context triple: [Bloc Party, member, Gordon Moakes]
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A.
Gordon Coates
Gordon Coates was a New Zealand politician who served as Prime Minister in the 1920s and played a key role in shaping the country's policies within the British Empire and later the Commonwealth.
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B.
Gordon Juckes
Gordon Juckes was a prominent Canadian ice hockey administrator who played a key role in developing and promoting amateur hockey across Canada.
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C.
Gordon Hales
Gordon Hales was a film editor known for his work on major British and international productions, including Charlie Chaplin’s final film "A Countess from Hong Kong."
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D.
Richard Hiscott
Richard Hiscott is an editor known for his work on the television series "Willow."
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E.
Howard Mollison
Howard Mollison is a domineering, conservative parish council leader and delicatessen owner in J.K. Rowling’s novel "The Casual Vacancy," known for his snobbery and political scheming in the small town of Pagford.
- 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: Gordon Moakes Target entity description: Gordon Moakes is an English musician best known as the bassist and backing vocalist of the indie rock band Bloc Party.
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A.
Gordon Coates
Gordon Coates was a New Zealand politician who served as Prime Minister in the 1920s and played a key role in shaping the country's policies within the British Empire and later the Commonwealth.
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B.
Gordon Juckes
Gordon Juckes was a prominent Canadian ice hockey administrator who played a key role in developing and promoting amateur hockey across Canada.
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C.
Gordon Hales
Gordon Hales was a film editor known for his work on major British and international productions, including Charlie Chaplin’s final film "A Countess from Hong Kong."
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D.
Richard Hiscott
Richard Hiscott is an editor known for his work on the television series "Willow."
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E.
Howard Mollison
Howard Mollison is a domineering, conservative parish council leader and delicatessen owner in J.K. Rowling’s novel "The Casual Vacancy," known for his snobbery and political scheming in the small town of Pagford.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bassist
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human ⓘ musician ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | early 2000s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Bloc Party
NERFINISHED
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Burning Airlines NERFINISHED ⓘ The Automatic NERFINISHED ⓘ Young Legionnaire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1976-06-22 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
England
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London, England ⓘ
surface form:
London
United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| familyName | Moakes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
alternative rock
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indie rock ⓘ post-punk revival ⓘ |
| givenName | Gordon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCreativeRole | songwriter in Bloc Party ⓘ |
| instrument |
bass guitar
ⓘ
guitar ⓘ vocals ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Bloc Party NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Gordon Moakes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the backing vocalist of Bloc Party
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being the bassist of Bloc Party ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Weekend in the City
NERFINISHED
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Four NERFINISHED ⓘ Hymns NERFINISHED ⓘ Intimacy NERFINISHED ⓘ Silent Alarm NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
backing vocalist
ⓘ
bassist ⓘ musician ⓘ |
| partOf | English indie rock scene ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Atlantic Records
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V2 Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Wichita Recordings NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| role |
backing vocalist of Bloc Party
ⓘ
bassist of Bloc Party ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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: Gordon Moakes Description of subject: Gordon Moakes is an English musician best known as the bassist and backing vocalist of the indie rock band Bloc Party.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.