Billy Talbot
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Billy Talbot is an American bassist best known as a founding member of Neil Young’s backing band Crazy Horse.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Billy Talbot canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4807310 — 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: Billy Talbot Context triple: [After the Gold Rush, featuresMusician, Billy Talbot]
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A.
Don Rhymer
Don Rhymer was an American screenwriter known for his work on family-oriented films and animated features, including contributions to the Rio franchise.
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B.
Tony Gayton
Tony Gayton is an American screenwriter and producer best known for co-creating the Western television drama series "Hell on Wheels."
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C.
Colin Blakely
Colin Blakely was a Northern Irish character actor known for his powerful stage work and memorable supporting roles in British and international films of the 1960s–1980s.
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D.
Scott Darlington
Scott Darlington is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Darlington.
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E.
Billy McBride
Billy McBride is a washed-up but brilliant defense attorney who becomes an unlikely antihero as he takes on powerful adversaries in the legal drama series "Goliath."
- 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: Billy Talbot Target entity description: Billy Talbot is an American bassist best known as a founding member of Neil Young’s backing band Crazy Horse.
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A.
Don Rhymer
Don Rhymer was an American screenwriter known for his work on family-oriented films and animated features, including contributions to the Rio franchise.
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B.
Tony Gayton
Tony Gayton is an American screenwriter and producer best known for co-creating the Western television drama series "Hell on Wheels."
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C.
Colin Blakely
Colin Blakely was a Northern Irish character actor known for his powerful stage work and memorable supporting roles in British and international films of the 1960s–1980s.
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D.
Scott Darlington
Scott Darlington is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Darlington.
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E.
Billy McBride
Billy McBride is a washed-up but brilliant defense attorney who becomes an unlikely antihero as he takes on powerful adversaries in the legal drama series "Goliath."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bassist
ⓘ
human ⓘ musician ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activeIn | music industry ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Crazy Horse
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Neil Young ⓘ |
| familyName | Talbot ⓘ |
| genre |
folk rock
ⓘ
hard rock ⓘ rock music ⓘ |
| givenName | Billy ⓘ |
| instrument |
bass guitar
ⓘ
vocals ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being a founding member of Crazy Horse
ⓘ
longtime collaboration with Neil Young ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Crazy Horse ⓘ |
| name | Billy Talbot ⓘ |
| nationality | United States of America ⓘ |
| notableWork | work with Crazy Horse ⓘ |
| occupation |
bassist
ⓘ
musician ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| partOf | Neil Young and Crazy Horse ⓘ |
| role | bass guitar ⓘ |
| workLocation | United States of America ⓘ |
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: Billy Talbot Description of subject: Billy Talbot is an American bassist best known as a founding member of Neil Young’s backing band Crazy Horse.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.