Duncan Reid
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Duncan Reid is a musician best known as the former bassist and vocalist for the UK punk band The Boys and for his solo work with Duncan Reid and the Big Heads.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Duncan Reid canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T640591 — 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: Duncan Reid Context triple: [Reid, hasNotableBearer, Duncan Reid]
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A.
Graeme Ferguson
Graeme Ferguson was a Canadian filmmaker and co-founder of the IMAX large-format cinema technology.
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B.
Graeme Gibson
Graeme Gibson was a Canadian novelist, environmentalist, and cultural advocate known for his contributions to Canadian literature and his long partnership with writer Margaret Atwood.
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C.
David Reid
David Reid is a film producer known for his work on major British and international feature films, including the action spy movie "Kingsman: The Secret Service."
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D.
Eric Drummond
Eric Drummond was a British diplomat best known for serving as the first Secretary-General of the League of Nations, helping to shape the early framework of modern international diplomacy.
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E.
Colin Goudie
Colin Goudie is a film editor known for his work on major feature films, including the fantasy action movie "King Arthur: Legend of the Sword."
- 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: Duncan Reid Target entity description: Duncan Reid is a musician best known as the former bassist and vocalist for the UK punk band The Boys and for his solo work with Duncan Reid and the Big Heads.
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A.
Graeme Ferguson
Graeme Ferguson was a Canadian filmmaker and co-founder of the IMAX large-format cinema technology.
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B.
Graeme Gibson
Graeme Gibson was a Canadian novelist, environmentalist, and cultural advocate known for his contributions to Canadian literature and his long partnership with writer Margaret Atwood.
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C.
David Reid
David Reid is a film producer known for his work on major British and international feature films, including the action spy movie "Kingsman: The Secret Service."
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D.
Eric Drummond
Eric Drummond was a British diplomat best known for serving as the first Secretary-General of the League of Nations, helping to shape the early framework of modern international diplomacy.
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E.
Colin Goudie
Colin Goudie is a film editor known for his work on major feature films, including the fantasy action movie "King Arthur: Legend of the Sword."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bassist
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musician ⓘ punk rock band ⓘ rock band ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activeIn | United Kingdom punk scene ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Duncan Reid and the Big Heads
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The Boys ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United Kingdom
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| genre |
power pop
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power pop ⓘ power pop ⓘ punk rock ⓘ punk rock ⓘ punk rock ⓘ |
| instrument |
bass guitar
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vocals ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being former bassist for The Boys
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being former vocalist for The Boys ⓘ his solo work with Duncan Reid and the Big Heads ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | The Boys ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| occupation |
bassist
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songwriter ⓘ vocalist ⓘ |
| stageName | Kid Reid ⓘ |
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: Duncan Reid Description of subject: Duncan Reid is a musician best known as the former bassist and vocalist for the UK punk band The Boys and for his solo work with Duncan Reid and the Big Heads.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.