Steven Wilson
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Steven Wilson is an English musician, songwriter, and producer best known as the founder of progressive rock band Porcupine Tree and for his acclaimed solo work and surround-sound remixes.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Steven Wilson canonical | 100 |
| Steven Wilson discography | 2 |
| Steven John Wilson | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1872597 — 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: Steven Wilson Context triple: [Peter Gabriel, influenced, Steven Wilson]
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A.
Billy Sherwood
Billy Sherwood is an American musician, producer, and songwriter best known for his work as a bassist, guitarist, and later full member of the progressive rock band Yes.
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B.
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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C.
Alan White
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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D.
Thom Yorke
Thom Yorke is an English musician best known as the lead singer and principal songwriter of the alternative rock band Radiohead.
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E.
Jon Davison
Jon Davison is a British video game journalist and media executive known for his work at outlets such as GamePro, 1UP, and IGN.
- 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: Steven Wilson Target entity description: Steven Wilson is an English musician, songwriter, and producer best known as the founder of progressive rock band Porcupine Tree and for his acclaimed solo work and surround-sound remixes.
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A.
Billy Sherwood
Billy Sherwood is an American musician, producer, and songwriter best known for his work as a bassist, guitarist, and later full member of the progressive rock band Yes.
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B.
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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C.
Alan White
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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D.
Thom Yorke
Thom Yorke is an English musician best known as the lead singer and principal songwriter of the alternative rock band Radiohead.
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E.
Jon Davison
Jon Davison is a British video game journalist and media executive known for his work at outlets such as GamePro, 1UP, and IGN.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
audio engineer
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human ⓘ musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1980s ⓘ |
| birthName |
Steven John Wilson
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linked to:
Steven Wilson
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| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1967-11-03 ⓘ |
| founded | Porcupine Tree ⓘ |
| genre |
ambient music
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art rock ⓘ pop rock ⓘ progressive rock ⓘ psychedelic rock ⓘ |
| hasRemixed |
Chicago albums in 5.1 surround
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Gentle Giant albums in 5.1 surround ⓘ Jethro Tull albums in 5.1 surround ⓘ King Crimson albums in 5.1 surround ⓘ XTC albums in 5.1 surround ⓘ Yes albums in 5.1 surround ⓘ |
| instrument |
bass guitar
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guitar ⓘ keyboards ⓘ piano ⓘ programming ⓘ vocals ⓘ |
| knownFor |
founder of Porcupine Tree
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solo musical career ⓘ surround-sound remixes ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Bass Communion
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Blackfield ⓘ I.E.M. ⓘ No-Man ⓘ Porcupine Tree ⓘ Storm Corrosion ⓘ |
| name | Steven Wilson ⓘ |
| nationality | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
album "Grace for Drowning"
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album "Hand. Cannot. Erase." ⓘ album "Insurgentes" ⓘ album "The Future Bites" ⓘ album "The Harmony Codex" ⓘ album "The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories)" ⓘ album "To the Bone" ⓘ |
| occupation |
audio engineer
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musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Kingston upon Thames, London, England
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linked to:
Kingston upon Thames (historically)
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| recordLabel |
Kscope
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Roadrunner Records ⓘ Snapper Music ⓘ |
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: Steven Wilson Description of subject: Steven Wilson is an English musician, songwriter, and producer best known as the founder of progressive rock band Porcupine Tree and for his acclaimed solo work and surround-sound remixes.
Referenced by (103)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Steven Wilson