Simon McIlroy
E417128
Simon McIlroy is a musician best known for his role in the influential American avant-garde metal band Neurosis.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Simon McIlroy canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4161639 — 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: Simon McIlroy Context triple: [Neurosis, formerMember, Simon McIlroy]
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A.
Johnny Kilbane
Johnny Kilbane was an American featherweight boxer renowned for his exceptionally long reign as world featherweight champion in the early 20th century.
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B.
Rory McCann
Rory McCann is a Scottish actor best known for playing Sandor "The Hound" Clegane in the television series Game of Thrones.
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C.
Neil McEvoy
Neil McEvoy is a Canadian football executive best known for serving in senior football operations and personnel roles, including general manager, with the BC Lions of the Canadian Football League.
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D.
Tim McInnerny
Tim McInnerny is a British actor best known for his comedic and character roles in television and film, particularly in the classic sitcom series Blackadder.
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E.
Paul McGinness
Paul McGinness was an Australian aviator and World War I flying ace best known as one of the co-founders of Qantas Airways.
- 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: Simon McIlroy Target entity description: Simon McIlroy is a musician best known for his role in the influential American avant-garde metal band Neurosis.
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A.
Johnny Kilbane
Johnny Kilbane was an American featherweight boxer renowned for his exceptionally long reign as world featherweight champion in the early 20th century.
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B.
Rory McCann
Rory McCann is a Scottish actor best known for playing Sandor "The Hound" Clegane in the television series Game of Thrones.
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C.
Neil McEvoy
Neil McEvoy is a Canadian football executive best known for serving in senior football operations and personnel roles, including general manager, with the BC Lions of the Canadian Football League.
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D.
Tim McInnerny
Tim McInnerny is a British actor best known for his comedic and character roles in television and film, particularly in the classic sitcom series Blackadder.
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E.
Paul McGinness
Paul McGinness was an Australian aviator and World War I flying ace best known as one of the co-founders of Qantas Airways.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
electronic musician
ⓘ
keyboardist ⓘ musician ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Neurosis ⓘ |
| contributedTo | live performances of Neurosis ⓘ |
| countryOfActivity |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| genre |
avant-garde metal
ⓘ
post-metal ⓘ |
| instrument |
electronics
ⓘ
keyboards ⓘ synthesizer ⓘ |
| memberOf | Neurosis ⓘ |
| musicStyle |
ambient-influenced metal
ⓘ
experimental metal ⓘ |
| notableFor | role in the band Neurosis ⓘ |
| occupation |
keyboardist
ⓘ
musician ⓘ |
| partOf | American metal scene ⓘ |
| roleInBand | keyboards and electronics for Neurosis ⓘ |
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: Simon McIlroy Description of subject: Simon McIlroy is a musician best known for his role in the influential American avant-garde metal band Neurosis.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.