Billy Sheehan
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Billy Sheehan is a virtuoso American bassist known for his technically advanced playing and work with bands like Mr. Big, Talas, and David Lee Roth.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Billy Sheehan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5193681 — 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 Sheehan Context triple: [Steve Vai, associatedAct, Billy Sheehan]
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A.
Jay Schellen
Jay Schellen is an American rock drummer best known for his work with the progressive rock band Yes and for his extensive career as a session and touring musician.
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B.
Adrian Belew
Adrian Belew is an innovative American guitarist, singer, and songwriter best known for his experimental work with King Crimson and numerous other rock and avant-garde artists.
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C.
Billy Cobham
Billy Cobham is a Panamanian-American jazz fusion drummer renowned for his virtuosic technique and influential work in both solo projects and collaborations with leading fusion artists.
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D.
Steven Adler
Steven Adler is an American drummer best known as the original drummer for the hard rock band Guns N' Roses during their classic late-1980s lineup.
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E.
Trevor Rabin
Trevor Rabin is a South African musician and composer best known as the former guitarist of the rock band Yes and as a prolific film score composer.
- 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 Sheehan Target entity description: Billy Sheehan is a virtuoso American bassist known for his technically advanced playing and work with bands like Mr. Big, Talas, and David Lee Roth.
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A.
Jay Schellen
Jay Schellen is an American rock drummer best known for his work with the progressive rock band Yes and for his extensive career as a session and touring musician.
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B.
Adrian Belew
Adrian Belew is an innovative American guitarist, singer, and songwriter best known for his experimental work with King Crimson and numerous other rock and avant-garde artists.
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C.
Billy Cobham
Billy Cobham is a Panamanian-American jazz fusion drummer renowned for his virtuosic technique and influential work in both solo projects and collaborations with leading fusion artists.
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D.
Steven Adler
Steven Adler is an American drummer best known as the original drummer for the hard rock band Guns N' Roses during their classic late-1980s lineup.
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E.
Trevor Rabin
Trevor Rabin is a South African musician and composer best known as the former guitarist of the rock band Yes and as a prolific film score composer.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bass guitarist
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human ⓘ musician ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1970s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
David Lee Roth
NERFINISHED
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Greg Howe NERFINISHED ⓘ Mike Portnoy NERFINISHED ⓘ Paul Gilbert NERFINISHED ⓘ Richie Kotzen NERFINISHED ⓘ Steve Vai NERFINISHED ⓘ Tony MacAlpine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1953-03-19 ⓘ |
| endorses |
Rotosound strings
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Yamaha Guitars NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Sheehan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formedBand |
Niacin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sons of Apollo NERFINISHED ⓘ Talas NERFINISHED ⓘ The Winery Dogs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
hard rock
ⓘ
heavy metal ⓘ progressive rock ⓘ |
| givenName | William ⓘ |
| instrument |
bass guitar
ⓘ
vocals ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
David Lee Roth Band
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mr. Big NERFINISHED ⓘ Niacin NERFINISHED ⓘ Sons of Apollo NERFINISHED ⓘ Talas NERFINISHED ⓘ The Winery Dogs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Billy Sheehan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
fast three-finger picking technique
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two-handed tapping on bass ⓘ use of distortion on bass ⓘ virtuosic bass technique ⓘ |
| notableWork |
David Lee Roth album "Eat 'Em and Smile"
NERFINISHED
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David Lee Roth album "Skyscraper" NERFINISHED ⓘ Mr. Big album "Lean into It" NERFINISHED ⓘ The Winery Dogs debut album "The Winery Dogs" ⓘ solo album "Compression" ⓘ solo album "Cosmic Troubadour" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
bassist
ⓘ
songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Buffalo, New York, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| usesInstrument | Yamaha Attitude bass 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: Billy Sheehan Description of subject: Billy Sheehan is a virtuoso American bassist known for his technically advanced playing and work with bands like Mr. Big, Talas, and David Lee Roth.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.