Mark King
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Mark King is a musician best known as the lead vocalist and bassist of the British jazz-funk band Level 42.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mark King canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3228738 — 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: Mark King Context triple: [Hinder, hasMember, Mark King]
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A.
Jonathan King
Jonathan King is a British singer-songwriter, record producer, and former music industry figure known for his 1960s pop hits and later controversial legal troubles.
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B.
Jeff King
Jeff King is a television producer and writer known for his work on various drama series.
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C.
Donald King
Donald King is a flamboyant and controversial American boxing promoter known for organizing some of the sport’s most famous heavyweight championship bouts.
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D.
Geoffrey King
Geoffrey King is a distinguished geologist recognized for his influential contributions to the understanding of tectonics and earthquake processes.
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E.
Bob King
Bob King was a prominent American college basketball coach best known for revitalizing the University of New Mexico Lobos program in the 1960s and establishing it as a national contender.
- 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: Mark King Target entity description: Mark King is a musician best known as the lead vocalist and bassist of the British jazz-funk band Level 42.
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A.
Jonathan King
Jonathan King is a British singer-songwriter, record producer, and former music industry figure known for his 1960s pop hits and later controversial legal troubles.
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B.
Jeff King
Jeff King is a television producer and writer known for his work on various drama series.
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C.
Donald King
Donald King is a flamboyant and controversial American boxing promoter known for organizing some of the sport’s most famous heavyweight championship bouts.
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D.
Geoffrey King
Geoffrey King is a distinguished geologist recognized for his influential contributions to the understanding of tectonics and earthquake processes.
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E.
Bob King
Bob King was a prominent American college basketball coach best known for revitalizing the University of New Mexico Lobos program in the 1960s and establishing it as a national contender.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bassist
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human ⓘ musician ⓘ singer ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1970s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Level 42
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Mark King Band ⓘ Re-Flex ⓘ |
| bandRole |
bassist of Level 42
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co-founder of Level 42 ⓘ lead vocalist of Level 42 ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1958-10-20 ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
funk
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jazz-funk ⓘ pop rock ⓘ |
| hasSoloAlbum |
Influences
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One Man ⓘ Trash ⓘ |
| instrument |
bass guitar
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drums ⓘ guitar ⓘ vocals ⓘ |
| knownFor |
bassist of Level 42
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lead vocalist of Level 42 ⓘ slap bass playing style ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Level 42 ⓘ |
| name | Mark King ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableFeature | pioneering slap bass technique in pop and jazz-funk ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Lessons in Love
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Running in the Family ⓘ Something About You ⓘ |
| occupation |
bassist
ⓘ
musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Cowes, Isle of Wight, England
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linked to:
Cowes
|
| recordLabel |
Polydor Records
ⓘ
Universal Music Group ⓘ |
| residence |
Isle of Wight, England
ⓘ
linked to:
Isle of Wight
|
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: Mark King Description of subject: Mark King is a musician best known as the lead vocalist and bassist of the British jazz-funk band Level 42.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.