Stephen Pearcy
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Stephen Pearcy is an American singer best known as the lead vocalist and founding member of the glam metal band Ratt, prominent in the 1980s hard rock scene.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Stephen Pearcy canonical | 37 |
| Stephen Pearcy (solo) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6738889 — 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: Stephen Pearcy Context triple: [Ratt, member, Stephen Pearcy]
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A.
Rudy Sarzo
Rudy Sarzo is a Cuban-American hard rock and heavy metal bassist best known for his work with bands like Quiet Riot, Ozzy Osbourne, and Whitesnake.
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B.
Graham Bonnet
Graham Bonnet is an English rock singer best known for his powerful vocals and work with bands like Rainbow, Alcatrazz, and the Michael Schenker Group.
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C.
Tommy Thayer
Tommy Thayer is an American guitarist best known as the lead guitarist for the rock band Kiss, where he performs in the "Spaceman" persona originally made famous by Ace Frehley.
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D.
Steve Perry
Steve Perry is an American rock singer best known as the former lead vocalist of the band Journey, recognized for his powerful tenor voice and hits like "Don't Stop Believin'."
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E.
Steve Perry
Steve Perry is a film producer best known for his work on the 1993 crime-romance film "True Romance."
- 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: Stephen Pearcy Target entity description: Stephen Pearcy is an American singer best known as the lead vocalist and founding member of the glam metal band Ratt, prominent in the 1980s hard rock scene.
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A.
Rudy Sarzo
Rudy Sarzo is a Cuban-American hard rock and heavy metal bassist best known for his work with bands like Quiet Riot, Ozzy Osbourne, and Whitesnake.
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B.
Graham Bonnet
Graham Bonnet is an English rock singer best known for his powerful vocals and work with bands like Rainbow, Alcatrazz, and the Michael Schenker Group.
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C.
Tommy Thayer
Tommy Thayer is an American guitarist best known as the lead guitarist for the rock band Kiss, where he performs in the "Spaceman" persona originally made famous by Ace Frehley.
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D.
Steve Perry
Steve Perry is an American rock singer best known as the former lead vocalist of the band Journey, recognized for his powerful tenor voice and hits like "Don't Stop Believin'."
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E.
Steve Perry
Steve Perry is a film producer best known for his work on the 1993 crime-romance film "True Romance."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
musician ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activeIn | 1980s hard rock scene ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Arcade
ⓘ
Ratt ⓘ Vertex ⓘ Vicious Delite ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Pearcy ⓘ |
| founderOf | Ratt ⓘ |
| genre |
glam metal
ⓘ
hard rock ⓘ heavy metal ⓘ |
| givenName | Stephen ⓘ |
| hasPart | solo career as a recording artist ⓘ |
| instrument | vocals ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Ratt ⓘ |
| name | Stephen Pearcy ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being a founding member of Ratt
ⓘ
being a prominent glam metal frontman in the 1980s ⓘ |
| notableWork | lead vocalist of Ratt ⓘ |
| occupation |
musician
ⓘ
record producer ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| positionHeld | lead vocalist of Ratt ⓘ |
| 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: Stephen Pearcy Description of subject: Stephen Pearcy is an American singer best known as the lead vocalist and founding member of the glam metal band Ratt, prominent in the 1980s hard rock scene.
Referenced by (38)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Stephen Pearcy