Bryan Devendorf – drums, percussion
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Bryan Devendorf is an American drummer and percussionist best known as the rhythmic backbone of the indie rock band The National.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bryan Devendorf – drums, percussion canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1786164 — 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: Bryan Devendorf – drums, percussion Context triple: [The National, hasMemberRole, Bryan Devendorf – drums, percussion]
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A.
Brad Wilk
Brad Wilk is an American drummer best known as a founding member of the rock band Rage Against the Machine and for his work with Audioslave and Prophets of Rage.
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B.
Mickey Hart
Mickey Hart is an American percussionist and musicologist best known as one of the drummers for the rock band the Grateful Dead and for his explorations of world music and rhythm.
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C.
Tony Clark
Tony Clark is a former Major League Baseball first baseman who became the influential executive director of the MLB Players Association.
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D.
Bill Kreutzmann
Bill Kreutzmann is an American drummer best known as one of the founding members and longtime percussionists of the iconic rock band the Grateful Dead.
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E.
Dave Abbruzzese
Dave Abbruzzese is an American rock drummer best known for his work with Pearl Jam during their early 1990s commercial peak, including on the albums "Vs." and "Vitalogy."
- 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: Bryan Devendorf – drums, percussion Target entity description: Bryan Devendorf is an American drummer and percussionist best known as the rhythmic backbone of the indie rock band The National.
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A.
Brad Wilk
Brad Wilk is an American drummer best known as a founding member of the rock band Rage Against the Machine and for his work with Audioslave and Prophets of Rage.
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B.
Mickey Hart
Mickey Hart is an American percussionist and musicologist best known as one of the drummers for the rock band the Grateful Dead and for his explorations of world music and rhythm.
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C.
Tony Clark
Tony Clark is a former Major League Baseball first baseman who became the influential executive director of the MLB Players Association.
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D.
Bill Kreutzmann
Bill Kreutzmann is an American drummer best known as one of the founding members and longtime percussionists of the iconic rock band the Grateful Dead.
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E.
Dave Abbruzzese
Dave Abbruzzese is an American rock drummer best known for his work with Pearl Jam during their early 1990s commercial peak, including on the albums "Vs." and "Vitalogy."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American musician
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drummer ⓘ human ⓘ musician ⓘ percussionist ⓘ |
| associatedAct | The National ⓘ |
| basedIn | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
drumming
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music ⓘ percussion performance ⓘ |
| genre |
alternative rock
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indie rock ⓘ |
| hasPartIn | recordings by The National ⓘ |
| instrument |
drums
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percussion ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | The National ⓘ |
| nationality | United States of America ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the rhythmic backbone of The National ⓘ |
| notableWork | studio albums with The National ⓘ |
| occupation |
drummer
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percussionist ⓘ |
| role | drummer of The National ⓘ |
| sibling | Scott Devendorf ⓘ |
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: Bryan Devendorf – drums, percussion Description of subject: Bryan Devendorf is an American drummer and percussionist best known as the rhythmic backbone of the indie rock band The National.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.