Phil Manzanera
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Phil Manzanera is an English guitarist and record producer best known as the lead guitarist of the art rock band Roxy Music and for his extensive collaborations with prominent rock and experimental musicians.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Phil Manzanera canonical | 3 |
| Phil Manzanera (solo) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5199542 — 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: Phil Manzanera Context triple: [Bryan Ferry, associatedAct, Phil Manzanera]
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A.
Mick Taylor
Mick Taylor is an English guitarist best known for his influential tenure with the Rolling Stones from 1969 to 1974, during which he contributed to some of the band’s most acclaimed albums.
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B.
Ronnie Wood
Ronnie Wood is an English rock guitarist, bassist, and songwriter best known as a longtime member of The Rolling Stones and formerly of the Faces.
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C.
Steve Howe
Steve Howe is an English guitarist best known as the longtime lead guitarist of the progressive rock band Yes and a founding member of the supergroup Asia.
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D.
Allan Holdsworth
Allan Holdsworth was a pioneering English jazz fusion guitarist and composer renowned for his advanced harmonies, fluid legato technique, and influential work with bands like Soft Machine, U.K., and his own solo projects.
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E.
Bernie Marsden
Bernie Marsden is an English rock and blues guitarist and songwriter best known as a founding member of Whitesnake and co-writer of several of the band’s biggest hits.
- 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: Phil Manzanera Target entity description: Phil Manzanera is an English guitarist and record producer best known as the lead guitarist of the art rock band Roxy Music and for his extensive collaborations with prominent rock and experimental musicians.
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A.
Mick Taylor
Mick Taylor is an English guitarist best known for his influential tenure with the Rolling Stones from 1969 to 1974, during which he contributed to some of the band’s most acclaimed albums.
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B.
Ronnie Wood
Ronnie Wood is an English rock guitarist, bassist, and songwriter best known as a longtime member of The Rolling Stones and formerly of the Faces.
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C.
Steve Howe
Steve Howe is an English guitarist best known as the longtime lead guitarist of the progressive rock band Yes and a founding member of the supergroup Asia.
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D.
Allan Holdsworth
Allan Holdsworth was a pioneering English jazz fusion guitarist and composer renowned for his advanced harmonies, fluid legato technique, and influential work with bands like Soft Machine, U.K., and his own solo projects.
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E.
Bernie Marsden
Bernie Marsden is an English rock and blues guitarist and songwriter best known as a founding member of Whitesnake and co-writer of several of the band’s biggest hits.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
guitarist
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human ⓘ record producer ⓘ rock musician ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1960s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
801
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Andy Mackay NERFINISHED ⓘ Brian Eno NERFINISHED ⓘ Bryan Ferry NERFINISHED ⓘ David Gilmour NERFINISHED ⓘ John Cale NERFINISHED ⓘ Pink Floyd NERFINISHED ⓘ Quiet Sun NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Wyatt NERFINISHED ⓘ Roxy Music NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Philip Geoffrey Targett-Adams NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | England ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1951-01-31 ⓘ |
| genre |
art rock
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experimental rock ⓘ pop rock ⓘ progressive rock ⓘ |
| hasEthnicBackground |
Colombian
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Cuban ⓘ English ⓘ |
| instrument | guitar ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Roxy Music NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Phil Manzanera NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
collaborations with Brian Eno
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collaborations with David Gilmour ⓘ lead guitarist of Roxy Music ⓘ pioneering art rock guitar work ⓘ |
| notableWork |
801 Live
NERFINISHED
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Diamond Head NERFINISHED ⓘ Firebird V11 NERFINISHED ⓘ K-Scope NERFINISHED ⓘ Listen Now NERFINISHED ⓘ Primitive Guitars NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
guitarist
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record producer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
London, England
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surface form:
London
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| positionInBand | lead guitarist ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
EG Records
NERFINISHED
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Expression Records 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: Phil Manzanera Description of subject: Phil Manzanera is an English guitarist and record producer best known as the lead guitarist of the art rock band Roxy Music and for his extensive collaborations with prominent rock and experimental musicians.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Phil Manzanera (solo)