Alex Harvey
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Alex Harvey is a Scottish rock and blues musician best known as the charismatic frontman of The Sensational Alex Harvey Band in the 1970s.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alex Harvey canonical | 3 |
| Alexander James Harvey | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8804595 — 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: Alex Harvey Context triple: [Harvey, hasNotableBearer, Alex Harvey]
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A.
Anthony Harvey
Anthony Harvey was a British film editor and director best known for his acclaimed work on the historical drama "The Lion in Winter."
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B.
Nick Harvey
Nick Harvey is a British Liberal Democrat politician who formerly served as Minister of State for the Armed Forces in the UK government.
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C.
Allen McNeil
Allen McNeil was an editor known for his work on the film "The Ox-Bow Incident."
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D.
Ben Durrant
Ben Durrant is a musician best known as a member of the indie supergroup Gayngs.
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E.
John Hadden
John Hadden is a theater artist and director best known as a co-founder of the Shakespeare & Company theater troupe.
- 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: Alex Harvey Target entity description: Alex Harvey is a Scottish rock and blues musician best known as the charismatic frontman of The Sensational Alex Harvey Band in the 1970s.
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A.
Anthony Harvey
Anthony Harvey was a British film editor and director best known for his acclaimed work on the historical drama "The Lion in Winter."
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B.
Nick Harvey
Nick Harvey is a British Liberal Democrat politician who formerly served as Minister of State for the Armed Forces in the UK government.
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C.
Allen McNeil
Allen McNeil was an editor known for his work on the film "The Ox-Bow Incident."
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D.
Ben Durrant
Ben Durrant is a musician best known as a member of the indie supergroup Gayngs.
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E.
John Hadden
John Hadden is a theater artist and director best known as a co-founder of the Shakespeare & Company theater troupe.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bandleader
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blues musician ⓘ human ⓘ rock musician ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activeInDecade |
1960s
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1970s ⓘ 1980s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Alex Harvey and His Soul Band
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The Big Soul Band ⓘ The Sensational Alex Harvey Band ⓘ |
| birthName |
Alexander James Harvey
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linked to:
Alex Harvey
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| era | 1970s rock scene ⓘ |
| genre |
blues
ⓘ
glam rock ⓘ hard rock ⓘ rock ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
gravelly vocal style
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storytelling lyrics ⓘ use of theatrical costumes on stage ⓘ |
| influenced | later Scottish rock musicians ⓘ |
| influencedGenre | Scottish rock ⓘ |
| instrument |
guitar
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vocals ⓘ |
| knownFor |
charismatic stage presence
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theatrical live performances ⓘ |
| languageOfPerformance | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | The Sensational Alex Harvey Band ⓘ |
| name | Alex Harvey ⓘ |
| nationality | Scottish ⓘ |
| notableSong |
Delilah
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Faith Healer ⓘ Next ⓘ The Boston Tea Party ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Sensational Alex Harvey Band ⓘ |
| occupation |
guitarist
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musician ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| role |
frontman of The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
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lead vocalist of The Sensational Alex Harvey Band ⓘ |
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: Alex Harvey Description of subject: Alex Harvey is a Scottish rock and blues musician best known as the charismatic frontman of The Sensational Alex Harvey Band in the 1970s.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Alex Harvey