Kevin Godley
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Kevin Godley is a British musician and acclaimed music video director, best known as a founding member of 10cc and for his innovative, visually inventive work in the medium.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kevin Godley canonical | 32 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5863054 — 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: Kevin Godley Context triple: [Even Better Than the Real Thing, musicVideoDirector, Kevin Godley]
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A.
Graham Gouldman
Graham Gouldman is an English singer, songwriter, and musician best known as a founding member of the art-pop band 10cc and for writing numerous hit songs for British Invasion groups in the 1960s.
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B.
Martyn Atkins
Martyn Atkins is a British graphic designer and art director known for creating album covers and visual identities for prominent rock and alternative musicians.
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C.
Michael Gibb
Michael Gibb is one of the sons of Barry Gibb, the famed singer-songwriter and member of the Bee Gees.
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D.
John Lunn
John Lunn is a Scottish composer best known for his award-winning musical scores for the television series Downton Abbey.
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E.
Rod Temperton
Rod Temperton was a British songwriter and former member of the band Heatwave, best known for penning several of Michael Jackson’s biggest hits, including songs on the landmark album "Thriller."
- 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: Kevin Godley Target entity description: Kevin Godley is a British musician and acclaimed music video director, best known as a founding member of 10cc and for his innovative, visually inventive work in the medium.
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A.
Graham Gouldman
Graham Gouldman is an English singer, songwriter, and musician best known as a founding member of the art-pop band 10cc and for writing numerous hit songs for British Invasion groups in the 1960s.
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B.
Martyn Atkins
Martyn Atkins is a British graphic designer and art director known for creating album covers and visual identities for prominent rock and alternative musicians.
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C.
Michael Gibb
Michael Gibb is one of the sons of Barry Gibb, the famed singer-songwriter and member of the Bee Gees.
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D.
John Lunn
John Lunn is a Scottish composer best known for his award-winning musical scores for the television series Downton Abbey.
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E.
Rod Temperton
Rod Temperton was a British songwriter and former member of the band Heatwave, best known for penning several of Michael Jackson’s biggest hits, including songs on the landmark album "Thriller."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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music video director ⓘ musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activeIn |
music industry
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music video industry ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
10cc
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Godley & Creme ⓘ Hotlegs ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1945-10-07 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
England
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Lancashire ⓘ Prestwich ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | Lol Creme ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| familyName | Godley ⓘ |
| formedBandWith | Lol Creme ⓘ |
| genre |
art rock
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pop rock ⓘ progressive rock ⓘ rock music ⓘ |
| givenName | Kevin ⓘ |
| instrument |
drums
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guitar ⓘ percussion ⓘ vocals ⓘ |
| knownFor |
innovative music video direction
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pioneering work in music video medium ⓘ visually inventive music videos ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
10cc
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Godley & Creme ⓘ |
| name | Kevin Godley ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableWork |
founding member of 10cc
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music videos for Duran Duran ⓘ music videos for Frankie Goes to Hollywood ⓘ music videos for Herbie Hancock ⓘ music videos for The Police ⓘ music videos for U2 ⓘ |
| occupation |
music video director
ⓘ
musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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: Kevin Godley Description of subject: Kevin Godley is a British musician and acclaimed music video director, best known as a founding member of 10cc and for his innovative, visually inventive work in the medium.
Referenced by (32)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Girls on Film
subject linked to:
Herbie Hancock – "Rockit" (multiple technical awards)