Alan White
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Alan White was an English rock drummer best known for his long tenure with the progressive rock band Yes and for playing on John Lennon’s “Imagine.”
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alan White canonical | 112 |
| Alan White – drums, percussion | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1794537 — 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: Alan White Context triple: [Yes, hasMember, Alan White]
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A.
Alan White
Alan White is an English drummer best known for his long tenure with the rock band Oasis during their peak years in the 1990s and early 2000s.
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B.
Benmont Tench
Benmont Tench is an American keyboardist and songwriter best known as a founding member of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and a prolific session musician for numerous rock and Americana artists.
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C.
Jerry Finn
Jerry Finn was an influential American record producer and engineer best known for shaping the polished pop-punk sound of bands like Blink-182, Green Day, and AFI.
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D.
Kyle Neptune
Kyle Neptune is an American college basketball coach best known for leading the Villanova Wildcats men's basketball program.
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E.
Noel Gallagher
Noel Gallagher is an English musician and songwriter best known as the lead guitarist and principal songwriter of the rock band Oasis.
- 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: Alan White Target entity description: Alan White was an English rock drummer best known for his long tenure with the progressive rock band Yes and for playing on John Lennon’s “Imagine.”
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A.
Alan White
Alan White is an English drummer best known for his long tenure with the rock band Oasis during their peak years in the 1990s and early 2000s.
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B.
Benmont Tench
Benmont Tench is an American keyboardist and songwriter best known as a founding member of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and a prolific session musician for numerous rock and Americana artists.
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C.
Jerry Finn
Jerry Finn was an influential American record producer and engineer best known for shaping the polished pop-punk sound of bands like Blink-182, Green Day, and AFI.
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D.
Kyle Neptune
Kyle Neptune is an American college basketball coach best known for leading the Villanova Wildcats men's basketball program.
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E.
Noel Gallagher
Noel Gallagher is an English musician and songwriter best known as the lead guitarist and principal songwriter of the rock band Oasis.
- 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: Alan White Description of subject: Alan White was an English rock drummer best known for his long tenure with the progressive rock band Yes and for playing on John Lennon’s “Imagine.”
Referenced by (113)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.