Mike Starr
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Mike Starr was an American bassist best known as the original bass player for the Seattle grunge band Alice in Chains.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mike Starr canonical | 38 |
| Starr | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1243242 — 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: Mike Starr Context triple: [Alice in Chains, hasPart, Mike Starr]
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A.
Mike Starr
Mike Starr is an American character actor known for his imposing presence and frequent roles as tough guys or mobsters in films and television.
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B.
Mike Krieger
Mike Krieger is a Brazilian-American entrepreneur and software engineer best known as the co-founder and former CTO of the photo-sharing social media platform Instagram.
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C.
Curtis Stigers
Curtis Stigers is an American jazz and soul-influenced singer, saxophonist, and songwriter known for his early 1990s pop hits and later critically acclaimed jazz recordings.
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D.
Brian VanDeMark
Brian VanDeMark is an American historian and author known for his work on U.S. foreign policy and the Vietnam War, including coauthoring influential studies of that conflict.
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E.
Jake Stahl
Jake Stahl was an early 20th-century American first baseman and manager best known for leading the Boston Red Sox to the 1912 World Series championship.
- 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: Mike Starr Target entity description: Mike Starr was an American bassist best known as the original bass player for the Seattle grunge band Alice in Chains.
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A.
Mike Starr
Mike Starr is an American character actor known for his imposing presence and frequent roles as tough guys or mobsters in films and television.
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B.
Mike Krieger
Mike Krieger is a Brazilian-American entrepreneur and software engineer best known as the co-founder and former CTO of the photo-sharing social media platform Instagram.
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C.
Curtis Stigers
Curtis Stigers is an American jazz and soul-influenced singer, saxophonist, and songwriter known for his early 1990s pop hits and later critically acclaimed jazz recordings.
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D.
Brian VanDeMark
Brian VanDeMark is an American historian and author known for his work on U.S. foreign policy and the Vietnam War, including coauthoring influential studies of that conflict.
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E.
Jake Stahl
Jake Stahl was an early 20th-century American first baseman and manager best known for leading the Boston Red Sox to the 1912 World Series championship.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Mike Starr Description of subject: Mike Starr was an American bassist best known as the original bass player for the Seattle grunge band Alice in Chains.
Referenced by (39)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Mike Starr
subject linked to:
Facelift (Alice in Chains album)
subject linked to:
Facelift (Alice in Chains album)
subject linked to:
Dirt (Alice in Chains album)