Billy Howerdel
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Billy Howerdel is an American musician, songwriter, and producer best known as the founder and guitarist of the rock band A Perfect Circle.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Billy Howerdel canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13496400 — 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: Billy Howerdel Context triple: [Twiggy Ramirez, collaboratedWith, Billy Howerdel]
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A.
Chris Eldridge
Chris Eldridge is an American guitarist best known for his innovative bluegrass and progressive acoustic work, particularly as a member of the band Punch Brothers.
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B.
Brandon Rogers
Brandon Rogers is an American singer and former backup vocalist who gained national recognition as a contestant on the sixth season of American Idol.
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C.
Trevor Upham
Trevor Upham is an American physician and attorney best known as the husband of lawyer and author Cate Edwards, daughter of former U.S. Senator John Edwards.
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D.
Craig Wedren
Craig Wedren is an American composer and musician best known as the lead singer of the band Shudder to Think and for his extensive work scoring films and television.
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E.
Adam Storke
Adam Storke is an American actor best known for his roles in film and television, including his prominent appearance in the miniseries adaptation of Stephen King’s "The Stand."
- 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: Billy Howerdel Target entity description: Billy Howerdel is an American musician, songwriter, and producer best known as the founder and guitarist of the rock band A Perfect Circle.
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A.
Chris Eldridge
Chris Eldridge is an American guitarist best known for his innovative bluegrass and progressive acoustic work, particularly as a member of the band Punch Brothers.
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B.
Brandon Rogers
Brandon Rogers is an American singer and former backup vocalist who gained national recognition as a contestant on the sixth season of American Idol.
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C.
Trevor Upham
Trevor Upham is an American physician and attorney best known as the husband of lawyer and author Cate Edwards, daughter of former U.S. Senator John Edwards.
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D.
Craig Wedren
Craig Wedren is an American composer and musician best known as the lead singer of the band Shudder to Think and for his extensive work scoring films and television.
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E.
Adam Storke
Adam Storke is an American actor best known for his roles in film and television, including his prominent appearance in the miniseries adaptation of Stephen King’s "The Stand."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
guitarist
ⓘ
human ⓘ musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
A Perfect Circle
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ashes Divide NERFINISHED ⓘ David Bowie NERFINISHED ⓘ Guns N' Roses NERFINISHED ⓘ Nine Inch Nails NERFINISHED ⓘ Puscifer NERFINISHED ⓘ The Smashing Pumpkins NERFINISHED ⓘ Tool NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedIn | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer |
Nine Inch Nails
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Smashing Pumpkins NERFINISHED ⓘ Tool NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Howerdel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
music production
ⓘ
rock music ⓘ |
| genre |
alternative metal
ⓘ
alternative rock ⓘ art rock ⓘ hard rock ⓘ |
| givenName | Billy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPartIn |
Eat the Elephant
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Emotive NERFINISHED ⓘ Mer de Noms NERFINISHED ⓘ Thirteenth Step NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| instrument |
bass guitar
ⓘ
guitar ⓘ keyboards ⓘ vocals ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | A Perfect Circle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Billy Howerdel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Perfect Circle
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ashes Divide – Keep Telling Myself It's Alright NERFINISHED ⓘ What Normal Was NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
guitarist
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musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ touring guitarist ⓘ |
| positionHeld | founder of A Perfect Circle ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Alchemy Recordings
NERFINISHED
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BMG NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Billy Howerdel Description of subject: Billy Howerdel is an American musician, songwriter, and producer best known as the founder and guitarist of the rock band A Perfect Circle.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.