Michael Bland
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Michael Bland is an American drummer best known for his powerful, versatile work with Prince and other major artists across funk, rock, and pop.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Michael Bland canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9425575 — 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: Michael Bland Context triple: [The New Power Generation, hasMember, Michael Bland]
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A.
Jason Blundell
Jason Blundell is a video game developer best known as a key creative lead on the Call of Duty: Black Ops Zombies mode at Treyarch.
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B.
Jeffrey Stott
Jeffrey Stott is a film producer best known for his work on the political comedy film "The American President."
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C.
Chris Blunden
Chris Blunden is a film editor known for his work on the 1997 comedy film "Bean."
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D.
Jonathan Gledhill
Jonathan Gledhill was an English Anglican bishop who served in senior episcopal roles in the Church of England, including as Bishop of Stafford.
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E.
Dani Stevenson
Dani Stevenson is an American R&B singer best known for her early-2000s work, including featured and background vocals on popular hip-hop and R&B tracks.
- 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: Michael Bland Target entity description: Michael Bland is an American drummer best known for his powerful, versatile work with Prince and other major artists across funk, rock, and pop.
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A.
Jason Blundell
Jason Blundell is a video game developer best known as a key creative lead on the Call of Duty: Black Ops Zombies mode at Treyarch.
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B.
Jeffrey Stott
Jeffrey Stott is a film producer best known for his work on the political comedy film "The American President."
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C.
Chris Blunden
Chris Blunden is a film editor known for his work on the 1997 comedy film "Bean."
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D.
Jonathan Gledhill
Jonathan Gledhill was an English Anglican bishop who served in senior episcopal roles in the Church of England, including as Bishop of Stafford.
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E.
Dani Stevenson
Dani Stevenson is an American R&B singer best known for her early-2000s work, including featured and background vocals on popular hip-hop and R&B tracks.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
drummer
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human ⓘ musician ⓘ |
| activeIn | music industry ⓘ |
| activeSince | late 1980s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Chaka Khan
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Dr. Mambo’s Combo ⓘ Maceo Parker ⓘ Maxwell ⓘ Morris Day and the Time ⓘ
linked to:
Morris Day and The Time
New Power Generation ⓘ Paul Westerberg ⓘ Prince ⓘ Soul Asylum ⓘ |
| familyName | Bland ⓘ |
| genre |
R&B
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funk ⓘ pop ⓘ rock ⓘ |
| givenName | Michael ⓘ |
| instrument | drum kit ⓘ |
| memberOf | New Power Generation ⓘ |
| name | Michael Bland ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
powerful drumming style
ⓘ
versatile session work ⓘ |
| notableWorkWith | Prince ⓘ |
| occupation |
drummer
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record producer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfOrigin |
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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linked to:
Minneapolis
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| styleCharacteristic |
dynamic power
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genre versatility ⓘ groove-oriented playing ⓘ |
| workedOn |
Prince studio recordings
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Prince tours ⓘ |
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: Michael Bland Description of subject: Michael Bland is an American drummer best known for his powerful, versatile work with Prince and other major artists across funk, rock, and pop.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.