Derek Riggs
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Derek Riggs is a British artist best known for creating Iron Maiden’s iconic mascot Eddie and many of the band’s classic album covers.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Derek Riggs canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T22392219 — 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: Derek Riggs Context triple: [The Number of the Beast, hasCoverArtBy, Derek Riggs]
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A.
Toby Froud
Toby Froud is a British-American artist, puppeteer, and filmmaker best known as the baby in the fantasy film "Labyrinth" and for his later work in creature design and stop-motion animation.
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B.
Alan Lee
Alan Lee is a British illustrator renowned for his atmospheric, detailed depictions of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth and his award-winning conceptual design work on Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings films.
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C.
Wayne Barlowe
Wayne Barlowe is a science fiction and fantasy artist and author renowned for his imaginative creature designs and detailed depictions of alien worlds.
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D.
Joe Gilliam
Joe Gilliam was an American football quarterback best known for breaking racial barriers as one of the first Black starting quarterbacks in the NFL with the Pittsburgh Steelers in the 1970s.
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E.
Brian Froud
Brian Froud is a British fantasy illustrator and conceptual designer renowned for his distinctive faerie and goblin artwork and his influential visual worldbuilding for films like *The Dark Crystal* and *Labyrinth*.
- 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: Derek Riggs Target entity description: Derek Riggs is a British artist best known for creating Iron Maiden’s iconic mascot Eddie and many of the band’s classic album covers.
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A.
Toby Froud
Toby Froud is a British-American artist, puppeteer, and filmmaker best known as the baby in the fantasy film "Labyrinth" and for his later work in creature design and stop-motion animation.
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B.
Alan Lee
Alan Lee is a British illustrator renowned for his atmospheric, detailed depictions of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth and his award-winning conceptual design work on Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings films.
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C.
Wayne Barlowe
Wayne Barlowe is a science fiction and fantasy artist and author renowned for his imaginative creature designs and detailed depictions of alien worlds.
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D.
Joe Gilliam
Joe Gilliam was an American football quarterback best known for breaking racial barriers as one of the first Black starting quarterbacks in the NFL with the Pittsburgh Steelers in the 1970s.
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E.
Brian Froud
Brian Froud is a British fantasy illustrator and conceptual designer renowned for his distinctive faerie and goblin artwork and his influential visual worldbuilding for films like *The Dark Crystal* and *Labyrinth*.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.