Roger Waters
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Roger Waters is an English musician, singer, songwriter, and co-founder of the rock band Pink Floyd, known for his conceptual songwriting and politically charged solo work.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Roger Waters canonical | 21 |
| George Roger Waters | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T991604 — 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: Roger Waters Context triple: [Knockin' on Heaven's Door, hasNotableCoverVersionBy, Roger Waters]
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A.
Peter Gabriel
Peter Gabriel is an English musician, singer-songwriter, and former Genesis frontman renowned for his innovative solo work, activism, and contributions to world music and human rights.
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B.
Richard Butler
Richard Butler was an American Revolutionary War officer and frontiersman whose military service on the early western frontier led to several U.S. counties being named in his honor.
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C.
Chris Martin
Chris Martin is an English singer, songwriter, and musician best known as the lead vocalist and co-founder of the rock band Coldplay.
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D.
Jon Anderson
Jon Anderson is an English singer, songwriter, and musician best known as the lead vocalist and a founding member of the progressive rock band Yes.
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E.
Jeff Lynne
Jeff Lynne is an English singer, songwriter, producer, and co-founder of Electric Light Orchestra, renowned for his lush, layered production style and collaborations with major rock artists.
- 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: Roger Waters Target entity description: Roger Waters is an English musician, singer, songwriter, and co-founder of the rock band Pink Floyd, known for his conceptual songwriting and politically charged solo work.
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A.
Peter Gabriel
Peter Gabriel is an English musician, singer-songwriter, and former Genesis frontman renowned for his innovative solo work, activism, and contributions to world music and human rights.
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B.
Richard Butler
Richard Butler was an American Revolutionary War officer and frontiersman whose military service on the early western frontier led to several U.S. counties being named in his honor.
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C.
Chris Martin
Chris Martin is an English singer, songwriter, and musician best known as the lead vocalist and co-founder of the rock band Coldplay.
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D.
Jon Anderson
Jon Anderson is an English singer, songwriter, and musician best known as the lead vocalist and a founding member of the progressive rock band Yes.
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E.
Jeff Lynne
Jeff Lynne is an English singer, songwriter, producer, and co-founder of Electric Light Orchestra, renowned for his lush, layered production style and collaborations with major rock artists.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (62)
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: Roger Waters Description of subject: Roger Waters is an English musician, singer, songwriter, and co-founder of the rock band Pink Floyd, known for his conceptual songwriting and politically charged solo work.
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
George Roger Waters