Cliff Williams
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Cliff Williams is an English musician best known as the longtime bassist and backing vocalist for the Australian rock band AC/DC.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cliff Williams canonical | 21 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2700653 — 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: Cliff Williams Context triple: [AC/DC, hasMember, Cliff Williams]
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A.
Angus Young
Angus Young is the lead guitarist, co-founder, and schoolboy-uniform-clad stage icon of the Australian rock band AC/DC.
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B.
Malcolm Young
Malcolm Young was an Australian guitarist, songwriter, and co-founder of the hard rock band AC/DC, renowned for his powerful rhythm guitar playing and driving riffs.
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C.
Brian Johnson
Brian Johnson is a film editor known for his work on the documentary "He Named Me Malala."
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D.
Brian Johnson
Brian Johnson is a British rock singer best known as the longtime lead vocalist of the Australian hard rock band AC/DC.
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E.
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.
- 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: Cliff Williams Target entity description: Cliff Williams is an English musician best known as the longtime bassist and backing vocalist for the Australian rock band AC/DC.
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A.
Angus Young
Angus Young is the lead guitarist, co-founder, and schoolboy-uniform-clad stage icon of the Australian rock band AC/DC.
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B.
Malcolm Young
Malcolm Young was an Australian guitarist, songwriter, and co-founder of the hard rock band AC/DC, renowned for his powerful rhythm guitar playing and driving riffs.
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C.
Brian Johnson
Brian Johnson is a film editor known for his work on the documentary "He Named Me Malala."
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D.
Brian Johnson
Brian Johnson is a British rock singer best known as the longtime lead vocalist of the Australian hard rock band AC/DC.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bassist
ⓘ
human ⓘ musician ⓘ rock musician ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1960s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
AC/DC
ⓘ
Bandit ⓘ Home ⓘ |
| birthName | Clifford Williams ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1949-12-14 ⓘ |
| familyName | Williams ⓘ |
| genre |
hard rock
ⓘ
rock music ⓘ |
| genreOfBand | AC/DC hard rock ⓘ |
| givenName | Clifford ⓘ |
| hairColor | brown ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Erin Williams
ⓘ
Luke Williams ⓘ |
| instrument |
bass guitar
ⓘ
vocals ⓘ |
| memberOf | AC/DC ⓘ |
| name | Cliff Williams ⓘ |
| nationality | English ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic | solid, straightforward bass style ⓘ |
| notableFor |
backing vocals in AC/DC
ⓘ
longtime bassist of AC/DC ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Back in Black (album)
ⓘ
linked to:
Back in Black
Black Ice (album) ⓘ
linked to:
Black Ice
For Those About to Rock We Salute You (album) ⓘ
linked to:
For Those About to Rock We Salute You
Highway to Hell (album) ⓘ
linked to:
Highway to Hell
Power Up (album) ⓘ
linked to:
Power Up
Rock or Bust (album) ⓘ
linked to:
Rock or Bust
The Razors Edge (album) ⓘ
linked to:
The Razors Edge
|
| occupation |
backing vocalist
ⓘ
bassist ⓘ musician ⓘ |
| partOf | classic AC/DC lineup with Brian Johnson, Angus Young, Malcolm Young, and Phil Rudd ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Romford, Essex, England ⓘ |
| residence |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| roleInBand |
backing vocalist of AC/DC
ⓘ
bassist of AC/DC ⓘ |
| spouse | Geordie Williams ⓘ |
| startTimeInBand | 1977 ⓘ |
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: Cliff Williams Description of subject: Cliff Williams is an English musician best known as the longtime bassist and backing vocalist for the Australian rock band AC/DC.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.