Josh Freese
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Josh Freese is an American session and touring drummer known for his work with numerous rock bands and artists, including Nine Inch Nails, A Perfect Circle, and The Vandals.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Josh Freese canonical | 17 |
| Josh Freese is a drummer in Royal Machines | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4047057 — 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: Josh Freese Context triple: [Oingo Boingo, hasMember, Josh Freese]
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A.
Mark Aronoff
Mark Aronoff is an American linguist renowned for his influential work in morphology and for his long-standing role as a professor at Stony Brook University.
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B.
Michael Beinhorn
Michael Beinhorn is an American record producer known for his work on influential rock and alternative albums by artists such as Soundgarden, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Marilyn Manson.
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C.
Ed O’Brien
Ed O’Brien is an English guitarist and backing vocalist best known as a member of the alternative rock band Radiohead.
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D.
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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E.
Matt Cameron
Matt Cameron is an American rock drummer best known for his work with the bands Soundgarden and Pearl Jam.
- 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: Josh Freese Target entity description: Josh Freese is an American session and touring drummer known for his work with numerous rock bands and artists, including Nine Inch Nails, A Perfect Circle, and The Vandals.
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A.
Mark Aronoff
Mark Aronoff is an American linguist renowned for his influential work in morphology and for his long-standing role as a professor at Stony Brook University.
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B.
Michael Beinhorn
Michael Beinhorn is an American record producer known for his work on influential rock and alternative albums by artists such as Soundgarden, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Marilyn Manson.
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C.
Ed O’Brien
Ed O’Brien is an English guitarist and backing vocalist best known as a member of the alternative rock band Radiohead.
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D.
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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E.
Matt Cameron
Matt Cameron is an American rock drummer best known for his work with the bands Soundgarden and Pearl Jam.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
drummer
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human ⓘ musician ⓘ session musician ⓘ touring musician ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
A Perfect Circle
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Chris Cornell ⓘ Devo ⓘ Evanescence ⓘ Foo Fighters ⓘ Good Charlotte ⓘ Guns N' Roses ⓘ Kelly Clarkson ⓘ Michael Bublé ⓘ Nine Inch Nails ⓘ Paramore ⓘ Puddle of Mudd ⓘ Social Distortion ⓘ Sting ⓘ Suicidal Tendencies ⓘ The Offspring ⓘ The Replacements ⓘ The Vandals ⓘ The Vandals side project "Vandals" ⓘ Weezer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| genre |
alternative rock
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hard rock ⓘ industrial rock ⓘ punk rock ⓘ rock ⓘ |
| instrument |
drum kit
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percussion ⓘ |
| memberOf |
A Perfect Circle
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Devo ⓘ Foo Fighters ⓘ Guns N' Roses ⓘ Nine Inch Nails ⓘ The Offspring ⓘ The Vandals ⓘ |
| notableRole |
longtime drummer for The Vandals
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touring drummer for Foo Fighters ⓘ |
| notableWork |
drumming for Nine Inch Nails live performances
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drumming on A Perfect Circle albums ⓘ drumming with The Vandals ⓘ session drumming for various rock and pop artists ⓘ |
| occupation |
drummer
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record producer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
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: Josh Freese Description of subject: Josh Freese is an American session and touring drummer known for his work with numerous rock bands and artists, including Nine Inch Nails, A Perfect Circle, and The Vandals.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.