Dave Schools
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Dave Schools is an American bassist best known as a founding member and longtime low-end anchor of the Southern rock/jam band Widespread Panic.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dave Schools canonical | 18 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5921205 — 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: Dave Schools Context triple: [Widespread Panic, hasMember, Dave Schools]
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A.
Michele Buck
Michele Buck is a British television producer best known for her work on popular drama series such as "Agatha Christie's Marple" and "Poirot."
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B.
Steve Edwards
Steve Edwards is the benefactor after whom Murray Edwards College at the University of Cambridge is named.
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C.
Len Wiseman
Len Wiseman is an American film and television director, producer, and screenwriter best known for creating the Underworld film series and directing action movies like Live Free or Die Hard.
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D.
John Flanagan
John Flanagan was an American sculptor best known for designing the portrait of George Washington used on the U.S. quarter.
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E.
Roy Conli
Roy Conli is an American film producer best known for his work on major Walt Disney Animation Studios features such as "Treasure Planet" and the Academy Award-winning "Big Hero 6."
- 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: Dave Schools Target entity description: Dave Schools is an American bassist best known as a founding member and longtime low-end anchor of the Southern rock/jam band Widespread Panic.
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A.
Michele Buck
Michele Buck is a British television producer best known for her work on popular drama series such as "Agatha Christie's Marple" and "Poirot."
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B.
Steve Edwards
Steve Edwards is the benefactor after whom Murray Edwards College at the University of Cambridge is named.
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C.
Len Wiseman
Len Wiseman is an American film and television director, producer, and screenwriter best known for creating the Underworld film series and directing action movies like Live Free or Die Hard.
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D.
John Flanagan
John Flanagan was an American sculptor best known for designing the portrait of George Washington used on the U.S. quarter.
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E.
Roy Conli
Roy Conli is an American film producer best known for his work on major Walt Disney Animation Studios features such as "Treasure Planet" and the Academy Award-winning "Big Hero 6."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bassist
ⓘ
human ⓘ musician ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activity |
studio musician
ⓘ
touring musician ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Gov't Mule
ⓘ
linked to:
Gov’t Mule
Hard Working Americans ⓘ J Mascis and the Fog ⓘ Jerry Joseph & the Jackmormons ⓘ Stockholm Syndrome ⓘ The Dead ⓘ The Mickey Hart Band ⓘ
linked to:
Mickey Hart Band
Widespread Panic ⓘ |
| basedIn | Athens, Georgia ⓘ |
| familyName | Schools ⓘ |
| genre |
Southern rock
ⓘ
jam band ⓘ rock music ⓘ |
| givenName | Dave ⓘ |
| instrument | bass guitar ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Widespread Panic ⓘ |
| name | Dave Schools ⓘ |
| nationality | United States of America ⓘ |
| notableFor |
extended live jams with Widespread Panic
ⓘ
improvisational bass playing ⓘ |
| notableInstrument |
Alembic bass guitar
ⓘ
linked to:
Alembic bass
Modulus bass guitar ⓘ |
| notableWork | Widespread Panic ⓘ |
| occupation |
bassist
ⓘ
musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ |
| positionHeld | bassist of Widespread Panic ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Capricorn Records
ⓘ
Widespread Records ⓘ |
| role |
founding member of Widespread Panic
ⓘ
low-end anchor of Widespread Panic ⓘ |
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: Dave Schools Description of subject: Dave Schools is an American bassist best known as a founding member and longtime low-end anchor of the Southern rock/jam band Widespread Panic.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.