Tim May
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Tim May is an American session guitarist known for his work on numerous film soundtracks and recordings across jazz, pop, and rock genres.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tim May canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7184991 — 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: Tim May Context triple: [Johnny B. Goode, guitarInFilmPerformanceBy, Tim May]
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A.
Jonathan Bush
Jonathan Bush was an American banker and businessman, known as a member of the Bush political family and brother of President George H. W. Bush.
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B.
Christopher B. Roberts
Christopher B. Roberts is an American academic and engineer who serves as the president of Auburn University.
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C.
Glenn Shadix
Glenn Shadix was an American character actor best known for his eccentric roles in films like "Beetlejuice" and various voice performances in animated works.
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D.
Will Knaak
Will Knaak is an American guitarist and songwriter best known as a member of the alternative rock band Blue October.
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E.
David Anspaugh
David Anspaugh is an American film and television director best known for directing the sports dramas "Hoosiers" and "Rudy."
- 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: Tim May Target entity description: Tim May is an American session guitarist known for his work on numerous film soundtracks and recordings across jazz, pop, and rock genres.
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A.
Jonathan Bush
Jonathan Bush was an American banker and businessman, known as a member of the Bush political family and brother of President George H. W. Bush.
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B.
Christopher B. Roberts
Christopher B. Roberts is an American academic and engineer who serves as the president of Auburn University.
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C.
Glenn Shadix
Glenn Shadix was an American character actor best known for his eccentric roles in films like "Beetlejuice" and various voice performances in animated works.
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D.
Will Knaak
Will Knaak is an American guitarist and songwriter best known as a member of the alternative rock band Blue October.
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E.
David Anspaugh
David Anspaugh is an American film and television director best known for directing the sports dramas "Hoosiers" and "Rudy."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
guitarist
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musician ⓘ person ⓘ |
| activeIn | recording studios ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
|
| fieldOfWork |
film music
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popular music ⓘ |
| genre |
jazz
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pop ⓘ rock ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| instrument | guitar ⓘ |
| knownAs | Tim May ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
session work on recordings
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work on film soundtracks ⓘ |
| occupation |
recording artist
ⓘ
session guitarist ⓘ studio musician ⓘ |
| workLocation |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
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: Tim May Description of subject: Tim May is an American session guitarist known for his work on numerous film soundtracks and recordings across jazz, pop, and rock genres.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.