Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner
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Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner is the birth name of Sting, the English musician, singer-songwriter, and former frontman of the rock band The Police.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4334564 — 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: Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner Context triple: [Sting, birthName, Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner]
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A.
Andy Summers
Andy Summers is an English guitarist and composer best known as the lead guitarist for the rock band The Police.
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B.
Roger Hodgson
Roger Hodgson is an English musician, singer-songwriter, and co-founder of the progressive rock band Supertramp, known for writing and singing many of their biggest hits.
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C.
James Dean Bradfield
James Dean Bradfield is a Welsh musician best known as the lead vocalist and guitarist of the rock band Manic Street Preachers.
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D.
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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E.
Stewart Copeland
Stewart Copeland is an American drummer and composer best known as the co-founder and drummer of the rock band The Police and for his extensive work in film and television scoring.
- 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: Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner Target entity description: Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner is the birth name of Sting, the English musician, singer-songwriter, and former frontman of the rock band The Police.
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A.
Andy Summers
Andy Summers is an English guitarist and composer best known as the lead guitarist for the rock band The Police.
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B.
Roger Hodgson
Roger Hodgson is an English musician, singer-songwriter, and co-founder of the progressive rock band Supertramp, known for writing and singing many of their biggest hits.
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C.
James Dean Bradfield
James Dean Bradfield is a Welsh musician best known as the lead vocalist and guitarist of the rock band Manic Street Preachers.
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D.
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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E.
Stewart Copeland
Stewart Copeland is an American drummer and composer best known as the co-founder and drummer of the rock band The Police and for his extensive work in film and television scoring.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (70)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
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human ⓘ musician ⓘ philanthropist ⓘ record producer ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1971 ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Brit Award
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Emmy Award ⓘ Golden Globe Award ⓘ Grammy Award ⓘ Ivor Novello Award NERFINISHED ⓘ Polar Music Prize NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1951-10-02 ⓘ |
| familyName | Sumner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
jazz
ⓘ
new wave ⓘ pop rock ⓘ reggae rock ⓘ rock ⓘ |
| givenName | Gordon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| instrument |
bass guitar
ⓘ
double bass ⓘ guitar ⓘ vocals ⓘ |
| memberOf | The Police NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| middleName |
Matthew
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Thomas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | English ⓘ |
| nominatedFor | Academy Award for Best Original Song ⓘ |
| notableAlbum |
Ghost in the Machine
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Outlandos d'Amour NERFINISHED ⓘ Reggatta de Blanc NERFINISHED ⓘ Synchronicity NERFINISHED ⓘ Zenyatta Mondatta NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAppearance |
Dune (1984 film)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Quadrophenia (film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableOrganizationFounded | Rainforest Foundation Fund NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableRole | frontman of The Police ⓘ |
| notableSoloAlbum |
...Nothing Like the Sun
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
57th & 9th NERFINISHED ⓘ Brand New Day NERFINISHED ⓘ Sacred Love NERFINISHED ⓘ Ten Summoner's Tales NERFINISHED ⓘ The Dream of the Blue Turtles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Englishman in New York
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Every Breath You Take NERFINISHED ⓘ Fields of Gold NERFINISHED ⓘ Fragile NERFINISHED ⓘ Message in a Bottle NERFINISHED ⓘ Roxanne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 6 ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
bassist ⓘ composer ⓘ musician ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
England
ⓘ
Northumberland NERFINISHED ⓘ Wallsend NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionInBand |
bassist of The Police
ⓘ
lead vocalist of The Police ⓘ |
| residence |
New York City
ⓘ
Tuscany NERFINISHED ⓘ Wiltshire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse |
Frances Tomelty
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Trudie Styler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stageName | Sting NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner Description of subject: Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner is the birth name of Sting, the English musician, singer-songwriter, and former frontman of the rock band The Police.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.