Fred Frith
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Fred Frith is an English multi-instrumentalist, composer, and pioneering figure in experimental and avant-garde rock music.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Fred Frith canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11647084 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Fred Frith Context triple: [Before Sunrise, musicBy, Fred Frith]
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A.
Nile Freeman
Nile Freeman is a young U.S. Marine who discovers her immortality and becomes the newest member of the ancient warrior team in the comic-based action film "The Old Guard."
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B.
Paul Hood
Paul Hood is the introspective teenage son in Rick Moody's novel and its film adaptation "The Ice Storm," whose experiences reflect the emotional disconnection and turmoil of his suburban 1970s family.
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C.
Greg Leisz
Greg Leisz is an American multi-instrumentalist and renowned session musician, best known for his expressive pedal steel and guitar work across a wide range of rock, country, and Americana recordings.
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D.
Robert Wyatt
Robert Wyatt is an English musician and founding member of the influential Canterbury scene band Soft Machine, later acclaimed for his distinctive solo work blending jazz, rock, and experimental music.
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E.
John Parish
John Parish is an English musician, songwriter, and producer best known for his long-running creative collaboration with PJ Harvey and his work on numerous alternative rock and indie projects.
- 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: Fred Frith Target entity description: Fred Frith is an English multi-instrumentalist, composer, and pioneering figure in experimental and avant-garde rock music.
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A.
Nile Freeman
Nile Freeman is a young U.S. Marine who discovers her immortality and becomes the newest member of the ancient warrior team in the comic-based action film "The Old Guard."
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B.
Paul Hood
Paul Hood is the introspective teenage son in Rick Moody's novel and its film adaptation "The Ice Storm," whose experiences reflect the emotional disconnection and turmoil of his suburban 1970s family.
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C.
Greg Leisz
Greg Leisz is an American multi-instrumentalist and renowned session musician, best known for his expressive pedal steel and guitar work across a wide range of rock, country, and Americana recordings.
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D.
Robert Wyatt
Robert Wyatt is an English musician and founding member of the influential Canterbury scene band Soft Machine, later acclaimed for his distinctive solo work blending jazz, rock, and experimental music.
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E.
John Parish
John Parish is an English musician, songwriter, and producer best known for his long-running creative collaboration with PJ Harvey and his work on numerous alternative rock and indie projects.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (59)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bassist
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composer ⓘ guitarist ⓘ human ⓘ multi-instrumentalist ⓘ music educator ⓘ musician ⓘ violinist ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Bill Laswell
NERFINISHED
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Brian Eno NERFINISHED ⓘ John Zorn NERFINISHED ⓘ Mike Oldfield NERFINISHED ⓘ Ralph Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Wyatt NERFINISHED ⓘ The Residents NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Jeremy Webster Frith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1949-02-17 ⓘ |
| employer |
Mills College
NERFINISHED
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Mills College Center for Contemporary Music NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Frith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
avant-garde music
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experimental music ⓘ |
| genre |
avant-garde jazz
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avant-garde rock ⓘ experimental rock ⓘ improvised music ⓘ progressive rock ⓘ |
| givenName | Jeremy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| instrument |
bass guitar
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guitar ⓘ piano ⓘ violin ⓘ voice ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Art Bears
NERFINISHED
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Cosa Brava NERFINISHED ⓘ Fred Frith Guitar Quartet NERFINISHED ⓘ Henry Cow NERFINISHED ⓘ Keep the Dog NERFINISHED ⓘ Massacre NERFINISHED ⓘ Skeleton Crew NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Fred Frith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
influential figure in experimental and avant-garde rock
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pioneering prepared guitar techniques in rock music ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Cheap at Half the Price
NERFINISHED
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Gravity NERFINISHED ⓘ Guitar Solos NERFINISHED ⓘ Speechless NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
composer
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film score composer ⓘ music teacher ⓘ musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Heathfield, Sussex, England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Professor of Composition at Mills College ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Cuneiform Records
NERFINISHED
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Ralph Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Recommended Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Fred Frith Description of subject: Fred Frith is an English multi-instrumentalist, composer, and pioneering figure in experimental and avant-garde rock music.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.