The Paul Weller Band
E434469
The Paul Weller Band is the backing group formed to support English singer-songwriter Paul Weller’s solo career in live performances and recordings.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Paul Weller Band canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4363377 — 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: The Paul Weller Band Context triple: [Paul Weller, memberOf, The Paul Weller Band]
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A.
Paul Weller
Paul Weller is an English singer-songwriter and guitarist, famed for fronting The Jam and The Style Council before a successful solo career that established him as a key figure in British rock and mod revival.
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B.
The Housemartins
The Housemartins were a British indie pop band from Hull in the 1980s, best known for their socially conscious lyrics and hit singles like "Happy Hour" and "Caravan of Love."
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C.
Stereophonics
Stereophonics is a Welsh rock band known for their gritty guitar sound and hit songs like "Dakota" and "Have a Nice Day."
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D.
The Charlatans
The Charlatans are an English alternative rock band associated with the Madchester and Britpop scenes, known for their organ-driven sound and hits like "The Only One I Know."
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E.
The Jam
The Jam were a seminal late-1970s and early-1980s English mod revival and punk-influenced rock band fronted by Paul Weller, known for their sharp social commentary and hits like "Going Underground" and "Town Called Malice."
- 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: The Paul Weller Band Target entity description: The Paul Weller Band is the backing group formed to support English singer-songwriter Paul Weller’s solo career in live performances and recordings.
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A.
Paul Weller
Paul Weller is an English singer-songwriter and guitarist, famed for fronting The Jam and The Style Council before a successful solo career that established him as a key figure in British rock and mod revival.
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B.
The Housemartins
The Housemartins were a British indie pop band from Hull in the 1980s, best known for their socially conscious lyrics and hit singles like "Happy Hour" and "Caravan of Love."
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C.
Stereophonics
Stereophonics is a Welsh rock band known for their gritty guitar sound and hit songs like "Dakota" and "Have a Nice Day."
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D.
The Charlatans
The Charlatans are an English alternative rock band associated with the Madchester and Britpop scenes, known for their organ-driven sound and hits like "The Only One I Know."
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E.
The Jam
The Jam were a seminal late-1970s and early-1980s English mod revival and punk-influenced rock band fronted by Paul Weller, known for their sharp social commentary and hits like "Going Underground" and "Town Called Malice."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
backing band
ⓘ
musical ensemble ⓘ |
| activePeriod |
1990s
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2000s ⓘ 2010s ⓘ |
| activity |
live performances
ⓘ
studio recordings ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Paul Weller NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedIn | England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contributedTo | Paul Weller solo studio albums ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| formedFor | Paul Weller solo tours ⓘ |
| hasMemberRole |
backing vocalist
ⓘ
bassist ⓘ drummer ⓘ guitarist ⓘ keyboardist ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryGenre |
pop rock
ⓘ
rock ⓘ soul ⓘ |
| notableMember |
Andy Crofts
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Andy Lewis NERFINISHED ⓘ Brendan Lynch NERFINISHED ⓘ Cradock brothers ⓘ Steve Cradock NERFINISHED ⓘ Steve Pilgrim NERFINISHED ⓘ Steve White NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performsWith | Paul Weller in concert ⓘ |
| purpose | support Paul Weller’s solo career ⓘ |
| role | backing group for Paul Weller ⓘ |
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: The Paul Weller Band Description of subject: The Paul Weller Band is the backing group formed to support English singer-songwriter Paul Weller’s solo career in live performances and recordings.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.