Alan Wilder
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Alan Wilder is an English musician, composer, and producer best known for his influential role in shaping Depeche Mode’s sound during the 1980s and early 1990s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Alan Wilder canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13524585 — 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: Alan Wilder Context triple: [Depeche Mode, hasFormerMember, Alan Wilder]
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A.
Adam Wiltzie
Adam Wiltzie is an American ambient and drone musician and composer, best known as a founding member of Stars of the Lid and for his atmospheric film and television scores.
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B.
Roland Orzabal
Roland Orzabal is an English musician, songwriter, and co-founder of the band Tears for Fears, known for hits like "Shout" and "Everybody Wants to Rule the World."
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C.
Stu Silver
Stu Silver was an American television writer and producer best known for his work on the 1980s sitcom "Growing Pains."
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D.
Bob Mould
Bob Mould is an American musician and songwriter best known as the guitarist and vocalist for the influential alternative rock band Hüsker Dü and later for his solo work and the band Sugar.
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E.
Mark Mothersbaugh
Mark Mothersbaugh is an American composer, musician, and co-founder of the band Devo, known for his extensive work scoring films and television.
- 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: Alan Wilder Target entity description: Alan Wilder is an English musician, composer, and producer best known for his influential role in shaping Depeche Mode’s sound during the 1980s and early 1990s.
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A.
Adam Wiltzie
Adam Wiltzie is an American ambient and drone musician and composer, best known as a founding member of Stars of the Lid and for his atmospheric film and television scores.
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B.
Roland Orzabal
Roland Orzabal is an English musician, songwriter, and co-founder of the band Tears for Fears, known for hits like "Shout" and "Everybody Wants to Rule the World."
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C.
Stu Silver
Stu Silver was an American television writer and producer best known for his work on the 1980s sitcom "Growing Pains."
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D.
Bob Mould
Bob Mould is an American musician and songwriter best known as the guitarist and vocalist for the influential alternative rock band Hüsker Dü and later for his solo work and the band Sugar.
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E.
Mark Mothersbaugh
Mark Mothersbaugh is an American composer, musician, and co-founder of the band Devo, known for his extensive work scoring films and television.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
composer
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founder of Recoil ⓘ human ⓘ musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Curve
NERFINISHED
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Depeche Mode NERFINISHED ⓘ Nitzer Ebb NERFINISHED ⓘ Recoil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1959-06-01 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Hammersmith, London, England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| departureDate | 1995 ⓘ |
| endTime | 1995 ⓘ |
| familyName | Wilder NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| founded | Recoil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
alternative rock
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electronic music ⓘ industrial rock ⓘ synth-pop ⓘ |
| givenName | Alan ⓘ |
| influenced |
sound of Depeche Mode in the 1980s
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sound of Depeche Mode in the early 1990s ⓘ |
| instrument |
keyboards
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piano ⓘ sampler ⓘ synthesizer ⓘ |
| left | Depeche Mode NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf | Depeche Mode NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Alan Wilder NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | English ⓘ |
| notableEvent | guest appearance with Depeche Mode at Royal Albert Hall in 2010 ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Recoil project
NERFINISHED
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contribution to Depeche Mode album "Black Celebration" ⓘ contribution to Depeche Mode album "Music for the Masses" ⓘ contribution to Depeche Mode album "Songs of Faith and Devotion" ⓘ contribution to Depeche Mode album "Violator" ⓘ |
| occupation |
composer
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musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Mute Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| role |
arranger in Depeche Mode
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keyboardist in Depeche Mode ⓘ producer in Depeche Mode ⓘ |
| spouse | Hepzibah Sessa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startTime | 1982 ⓘ |
| website | http://blog.recoil.co.uk/ ⓘ |
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: Alan Wilder Description of subject: Alan Wilder is an English musician, composer, and producer best known for his influential role in shaping Depeche Mode’s sound during the 1980s and early 1990s.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.