Dave Mattacks
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Dave Mattacks is an English drummer best known for his work with the folk-rock band Fairport Convention and as a prolific session musician with numerous prominent artists.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dave Mattacks canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6067841 — 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 Mattacks Context triple: [Richard Thompson, associatedAct, Dave Mattacks]
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A.
Philip Selway
Philip Selway is an English musician best known as the drummer of the alternative rock band Radiohead.
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B.
Eric Leach
Eric Leach is a cinematographer best known for his work on the psychological thriller film "Enter Nowhere."
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C.
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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D.
Mick Ward
Mick Ward is a musician best known for his work with the band Kingfish.
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E.
Mike Rutherford
Mike Rutherford is an English musician and songwriter best known as the bassist and guitarist for the rock band Genesis and the founder of Mike + The Mechanics.
- 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 Mattacks Target entity description: Dave Mattacks is an English drummer best known for his work with the folk-rock band Fairport Convention and as a prolific session musician with numerous prominent artists.
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A.
Philip Selway
Philip Selway is an English musician best known as the drummer of the alternative rock band Radiohead.
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B.
Eric Leach
Eric Leach is a cinematographer best known for his work on the psychological thriller film "Enter Nowhere."
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C.
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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D.
Mick Ward
Mick Ward is a musician best known for his work with the band Kingfish.
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E.
Mike Rutherford
Mike Rutherford is an English musician and songwriter best known as the bassist and guitarist for the rock band Genesis and the founder of Mike + The Mechanics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
drummer
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musician ⓘ person ⓘ session musician ⓘ |
| activity |
studio session work
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touring musician ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Brian Eno
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Cat Stevens ⓘ Chris Rea ⓘ Fairport Convention ⓘ Jethro Tull ⓘ Joan Armatrading ⓘ June Tabor ⓘ Mary Chapin Carpenter ⓘ Nick Drake ⓘ Paul McCartney ⓘ Ralph McTell ⓘ Richard Thompson ⓘ
linked to:
Richard Thompson (British musician)
Steeleye Span ⓘ XTC ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| genre |
folk
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folk rock ⓘ rock ⓘ |
| instrument |
drums
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percussion ⓘ |
| knownFor | work with Fairport Convention ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Fairport Convention ⓘ |
| nationality | English ⓘ |
| notableRole | drummer for Fairport Convention ⓘ |
| occupation |
drummer
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musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ |
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 Mattacks Description of subject: Dave Mattacks is an English drummer best known for his work with the folk-rock band Fairport Convention and as a prolific session musician with numerous prominent artists.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.