David Wm. Sims – bass
E421737
David Wm. Sims is an American bassist best known for his work with the influential noise rock band The Jesus Lizard.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Wm. Sims – bass canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4231773 — 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: David Wm. Sims – bass Context triple: [The Jesus Lizard, hasRole, David Wm. Sims – bass]
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A.
Bob Weston – bass and vocals
Bob Weston – bass and vocals is an American musician best known as the bassist and recording engineer for the noise rock band Shellac.
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B.
Jesus (bass)
Jesus (bass) is the baritone or bass vocal role portraying Christ in Johann Sebastian Bach’s St Matthew Passion.
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C.
Victor Wooten
Victor Wooten is a highly influential American bassist, composer, and educator best known for his virtuosic playing with Béla Fleck and the Flecktones and his innovative solo work in jazz, funk, and fusion.
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D.
Erik "E-Bass" Coomes
Erik "E-Bass" Coomes is an American bassist and producer best known for his work in hip-hop and R&B, including contributions to Kanye West’s landmark album "The College Dropout."
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E.
Leonard Hubbard – bass
Leonard Hubbard was the longtime bassist for the hip hop band The Roots, known for his foundational role in shaping their early sound.
- 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: David Wm. Sims – bass Target entity description: David Wm. Sims is an American bassist best known for his work with the influential noise rock band The Jesus Lizard.
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A.
Bob Weston – bass and vocals
Bob Weston – bass and vocals is an American musician best known as the bassist and recording engineer for the noise rock band Shellac.
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B.
Jesus (bass)
Jesus (bass) is the baritone or bass vocal role portraying Christ in Johann Sebastian Bach’s St Matthew Passion.
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C.
Victor Wooten
Victor Wooten is a highly influential American bassist, composer, and educator best known for his virtuosic playing with Béla Fleck and the Flecktones and his innovative solo work in jazz, funk, and fusion.
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D.
Erik "E-Bass" Coomes
Erik "E-Bass" Coomes is an American bassist and producer best known for his work in hip-hop and R&B, including contributions to Kanye West’s landmark album "The College Dropout."
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E.
Leonard Hubbard – bass
Leonard Hubbard was the longtime bassist for the hip hop band The Roots, known for his foundational role in shaping their early sound.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bassist
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human ⓘ musician ⓘ |
| activeIn |
1980s
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1990s ⓘ 2000s ⓘ 2010s ⓘ |
| associatedBand |
Rapeman
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Scratch Acid ⓘ The Jesus Lizard ⓘ |
| bestKnownFor | his work as bassist for The Jesus Lizard ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| genre |
noise rock
ⓘ
post-hardcore ⓘ |
| hasMember | David Wm. Sims ⓘ |
| instrument | bass guitar ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Rapeman
ⓘ
Scratch Acid ⓘ The Jesus Lizard ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor | influential bass playing in noise rock ⓘ |
| notableWork |
albums with Rapeman
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albums with Scratch Acid ⓘ albums with The Jesus Lizard ⓘ |
| occupation |
bassist
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musician ⓘ |
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: David Wm. Sims – bass Description of subject: David Wm. Sims is an American bassist best known for his work with the influential noise rock band The Jesus Lizard.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.