Taylor Hawkins
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Taylor Hawkins was an American rock drummer best known for his powerful, energetic performances as a longtime member of the Foo Fighters.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Taylor Hawkins canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4726099 — 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: Taylor Hawkins Context triple: [Foo Fighters, hasMember, Taylor Hawkins]
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A.
Adam Yauch
Adam Yauch was an American rapper, filmmaker, and activist best known as a founding member of the pioneering hip-hop group Beastie Boys.
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B.
Travis Barker
Travis Barker is an American drummer best known as a member of the rock band Blink-182 and a prominent figure in pop-punk music.
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C.
James Osterberg
James Osterberg, better known as Iggy Pop, is an influential American rock singer, songwriter, and frontman often called the "Godfather of Punk."
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D.
Guy Berryman
Guy Berryman is a Scottish-born musician best known as the bassist of the British rock band Coldplay.
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E.
Pete Wentz
Pete Wentz is an American musician best known as the bassist and primary lyricist for the rock band Fall Out Boy.
- 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: Taylor Hawkins Target entity description: Taylor Hawkins was an American rock drummer best known for his powerful, energetic performances as a longtime member of the Foo Fighters.
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A.
Adam Yauch
Adam Yauch was an American rapper, filmmaker, and activist best known as a founding member of the pioneering hip-hop group Beastie Boys.
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B.
Travis Barker
Travis Barker is an American drummer best known as a member of the rock band Blink-182 and a prominent figure in pop-punk music.
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C.
James Osterberg
James Osterberg, better known as Iggy Pop, is an influential American rock singer, songwriter, and frontman often called the "Godfather of Punk."
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D.
Guy Berryman
Guy Berryman is a Scottish-born musician best known as the bassist of the British rock band Coldplay.
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E.
Pete Wentz
Pete Wentz is an American musician best known as the bassist and primary lyricist for the rock band Fall Out Boy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
drummer
ⓘ
human ⓘ musician ⓘ rock drummer ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Alanis Morissette
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Chevy Metal NERFINISHED ⓘ Coheed and Cambria NERFINISHED ⓘ Foo Fighters NERFINISHED ⓘ Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders NERFINISHED ⓘ The Birds of Satan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Grammy Award ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | cardiovascular collapse ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1972-02-17 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2022-03-25 ⓘ |
| employer | Foo Fighters NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| endTime | 2022 ⓘ |
| familyName | Hawkins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Oliver Taylor Hawkins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
alternative rock
ⓘ
post-grunge ⓘ rock ⓘ |
| givenName |
Oliver
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Taylor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Neil Peart
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Phil Collins NERFINISHED ⓘ Roger Taylor NERFINISHED ⓘ Stewart Copeland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| instrument |
drums
ⓘ
guitar ⓘ piano ⓘ vocals ⓘ |
| knownFor | powerful energetic drumming style ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Foo Fighters NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent | induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Foo Fighters ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders (band)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
drumming for Foo Fighters ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 3 ⓘ |
| occupation |
drummer
ⓘ
musician ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Fort Worth, Texas, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Bogotá, Colombia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | drummer of Foo Fighters ⓘ |
| residence |
Hidden Hills, California, United States
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Laguna Beach, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Alison Hawkins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startTime | 1997 ⓘ |
| yearOfEvent | 2021 ⓘ |
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: Taylor Hawkins Description of subject: Taylor Hawkins was an American rock drummer best known for his powerful, energetic performances as a longtime member of the Foo Fighters.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.