Bad Company drummer Simon Kirke
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Bad Company drummer Simon Kirke is an English rock musician best known as the drummer for the bands Free and Bad Company.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bad Company drummer Simon Kirke canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12730884 — 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: Bad Company drummer Simon Kirke Context triple: [Lola Kirke, relative, Bad Company drummer Simon Kirke]
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A.
Keith Relf
Keith Relf was an English musician best known as the lead vocalist and harmonica player for the influential 1960s rock band The Yardbirds.
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B.
Ronnie Walter Cunningham
Ronnie Walter Cunningham was an American astronaut, physicist, and fighter pilot best known as the Lunar Module Pilot on the Apollo 7 mission, NASA’s first crewed Apollo flight.
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C.
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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D.
Bernie Marsden
Bernie Marsden is an English rock and blues guitarist and songwriter best known as a founding member of Whitesnake and co-writer of several of the band’s biggest hits.
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E.
Ian Paice
Ian Paice is an English rock drummer best known as the longtime drummer for Deep Purple and for his work with other hard rock bands.
- 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: Bad Company drummer Simon Kirke Target entity description: Bad Company drummer Simon Kirke is an English rock musician best known as the drummer for the bands Free and Bad Company.
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A.
Keith Relf
Keith Relf was an English musician best known as the lead vocalist and harmonica player for the influential 1960s rock band The Yardbirds.
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B.
Ronnie Walter Cunningham
Ronnie Walter Cunningham was an American astronaut, physicist, and fighter pilot best known as the Lunar Module Pilot on the Apollo 7 mission, NASA’s first crewed Apollo flight.
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C.
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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D.
Bernie Marsden
Bernie Marsden is an English rock and blues guitarist and songwriter best known as a founding member of Whitesnake and co-writer of several of the band’s biggest hits.
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E.
Ian Paice
Ian Paice is an English rock drummer best known as the longtime drummer for Deep Purple and for his work with other hard rock bands.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
drummer
ⓘ
human ⓘ rock musician ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Bad Company
NERFINISHED
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Free NERFINISHED ⓘ Kossoff Kirke Tetsu Rabbit NERFINISHED ⓘ Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band NERFINISHED ⓘ Wildlife NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1949-07-28 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Lambeth, London, England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| child |
Domino Kirke
NERFINISHED
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Jemima Kirke NERFINISHED ⓘ Lola Kirke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| familyName | Kirke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
blues rock
ⓘ
hard rock ⓘ rock music ⓘ |
| givenName | Simon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSoloAlbum |
All Because of You
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Filling the Void NERFINISHED ⓘ Seven Rays of Hope NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| instrument |
drum kit
ⓘ
percussion ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Bad Company
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Free NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Simon Kirke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | English ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
co-founded Bad Company in 1973
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co-founded Free in 1968 ⓘ |
| notableSongContribution |
“All Right Now” by Free
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
“Can’t Get Enough” by Bad Company NERFINISHED ⓘ “Feel Like Makin’ Love” by Bad Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
drummer of Bad Company
ⓘ
drummer of Free ⓘ |
| occupation |
drummer
ⓘ
musician ⓘ |
| partOf | classic rock era ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Atlantic Records
ⓘ
Island Records ⓘ Swan Song Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| spouse | Lorraine Kirke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1960s–present ⓘ |
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: Bad Company drummer Simon Kirke Description of subject: Bad Company drummer Simon Kirke is an English rock musician best known as the drummer for the bands Free and Bad Company.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.