Neal Schon
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Neal Schon is an American rock guitarist and songwriter best known as the longtime lead guitarist and co-founder of the band Journey.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Neal Schon canonical | 57 |
| Neal Joseph Schon | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2700743 — 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: Neal Schon Context triple: [Journey, memberOf, Neal Schon]
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A.
Trevor Rabin
Trevor Rabin is a South African musician and composer best known as the former guitarist of the rock band Yes and as a prolific film score composer.
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B.
Jay Schellen
Jay Schellen is an American rock drummer best known for his work with the progressive rock band Yes and for his extensive career as a session and touring musician.
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C.
Mike Inez
Mike Inez is an American bassist best known for his long-time role in the rock band Alice in Chains and his previous work with Ozzy Osbourne.
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D.
Geoff Downes
Geoff Downes is an English keyboardist and songwriter best known as a member of The Buggles and the progressive rock bands Yes and Asia.
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E.
Dave Navarro
Dave Navarro is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter best known for his work with the rock band Jane's Addiction and a stint with the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
- 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: Neal Schon Target entity description: Neal Schon is an American rock guitarist and songwriter best known as the longtime lead guitarist and co-founder of the band Journey.
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A.
Trevor Rabin
Trevor Rabin is a South African musician and composer best known as the former guitarist of the rock band Yes and as a prolific film score composer.
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B.
Jay Schellen
Jay Schellen is an American rock drummer best known for his work with the progressive rock band Yes and for his extensive career as a session and touring musician.
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C.
Mike Inez
Mike Inez is an American bassist best known for his long-time role in the rock band Alice in Chains and his previous work with Ozzy Osbourne.
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D.
Geoff Downes
Geoff Downes is an English keyboardist and songwriter best known as a member of The Buggles and the progressive rock bands Yes and Asia.
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E.
Dave Navarro
Dave Navarro is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter best known for his work with the rock band Jane's Addiction and a stint with the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
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: Neal Schon Description of subject: Neal Schon is an American rock guitarist and songwriter best known as the longtime lead guitarist and co-founder of the band Journey.
Referenced by (58)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.