Jon Anderson
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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.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jon Anderson canonical | 103 |
| Jon Anderson discography | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T197676 — 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: Jon Anderson Context triple: [Heaven and Hell (Vangelis), featuresVocalist, Jon Anderson]
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A.
Jon Lomberg
Jon Lomberg is an American space artist and science communicator best known for his close collaboration with Carl Sagan and his major role in designing the visual and artistic elements of NASA’s interstellar messages, including the Voyager Golden Record.
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B.
Steve Nicol
Steve Nicol is a former Scottish footballer and long-time New England Revolution head coach known for his successful managerial tenure in Major League Soccer.
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C.
Arthur Lee
Arthur Lee was an American diplomat and member of the prominent Lee family of Virginia who played a key role in securing French support for the United States during the Revolutionary War.
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D.
Adam Clayton
Adam Clayton is an English-born Irish musician best known as the longtime bassist for the rock band U2.
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E.
Chris Cornell
Chris Cornell was an American rock musician best known as the powerful lead vocalist of Soundgarden and Audioslave and a key figure in the Seattle grunge movement.
- 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: Jon Anderson Target entity description: 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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A.
Jon Lomberg
Jon Lomberg is an American space artist and science communicator best known for his close collaboration with Carl Sagan and his major role in designing the visual and artistic elements of NASA’s interstellar messages, including the Voyager Golden Record.
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B.
Steve Nicol
Steve Nicol is a former Scottish footballer and long-time New England Revolution head coach known for his successful managerial tenure in Major League Soccer.
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C.
Arthur Lee
Arthur Lee was an American diplomat and member of the prominent Lee family of Virginia who played a key role in securing French support for the United States during the Revolutionary War.
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D.
Adam Clayton
Adam Clayton is an English-born Irish musician best known as the longtime bassist for the rock band U2.
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E.
Chris Cornell
Chris Cornell was an American rock musician best known as the powerful lead vocalist of Soundgarden and Audioslave and a key figure in the Seattle grunge movement.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Jon Anderson Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (104)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Yes
subject surface form:
Yes
this entity surface form:
Jon Anderson discography