John McVie
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John McVie is an English bassist best known as a longtime member of the rock band Fleetwood Mac.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| John McVie canonical | 48 |
| John Graham McVie | 1 |
| McVie | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4869271 — 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: John McVie Context triple: [Stevie Nicks, collaboratedWith, John McVie]
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A.
Mick Fleetwood
Mick Fleetwood is a British drummer and co-founder of the rock band Fleetwood Mac, renowned for his distinctive playing style and role in the group's enduring success.
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B.
Lindsey Buckingham
Lindsey Buckingham is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, and producer best known as a key member of Fleetwood Mac and for his influential work in rock and pop music.
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C.
Noel Redding
Noel Redding was an English rock bassist best known as the original bass player for the Jimi Hendrix Experience.
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D.
Mick Taylor
Mick Taylor is an English guitarist best known for his influential tenure with the Rolling Stones from 1969 to 1974, during which he contributed to some of the band’s most acclaimed albums.
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E.
Jack Casady
Jack Casady is an American bass guitarist best known as a founding member of Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna, recognized for his innovative, melodic rock bass style.
- 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: John McVie Target entity description: John McVie is an English bassist best known as a longtime member of the rock band Fleetwood Mac.
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A.
Mick Fleetwood
Mick Fleetwood is a British drummer and co-founder of the rock band Fleetwood Mac, renowned for his distinctive playing style and role in the group's enduring success.
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B.
Lindsey Buckingham
Lindsey Buckingham is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, and producer best known as a key member of Fleetwood Mac and for his influential work in rock and pop music.
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C.
Noel Redding
Noel Redding was an English rock bassist best known as the original bass player for the Jimi Hendrix Experience.
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D.
Mick Taylor
Mick Taylor is an English guitarist best known for his influential tenure with the Rolling Stones from 1969 to 1974, during which he contributed to some of the band’s most acclaimed albums.
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E.
Jack Casady
Jack Casady is an American bass guitarist best known as a founding member of Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna, recognized for his innovative, melodic rock bass style.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: John McVie Description of subject: John McVie is an English bassist best known as a longtime member of the rock band Fleetwood Mac.
Referenced by (50)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: John McVie
linked to: John McVie
subject linked to:
Tango in the Night (1987 album)
subject linked to:
Tusk world tour