Brann Dailor
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Brann Dailor is an American drummer and vocalist best known for his complex, technical playing style with the progressive metal band Mastodon.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Brann Dailor canonical | 13 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5875559 — 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: Brann Dailor Context triple: [Mastodon, member, Brann Dailor]
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A.
Dale Crover
Dale Crover is an American drummer best known for his long tenure with the Melvins and his early, influential recordings and performances with Nirvana.
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B.
Benmont Tench
Benmont Tench is an American keyboardist and songwriter best known as a founding member of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and a prolific session musician for numerous rock and Americana artists.
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C.
Jim James
Jim James is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist best known as the frontman of the rock band My Morning Jacket.
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D.
James Williamson
James Williamson is an American guitarist and songwriter best known for his influential work with the proto-punk band The Stooges, particularly on their landmark album "Raw Power."
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E.
Matt Sweeney
Matt Sweeney is an American guitarist, songwriter, and producer known for his work in indie rock and metal bands as well as high-profile collaborations across diverse genres.
- 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: Brann Dailor Target entity description: Brann Dailor is an American drummer and vocalist best known for his complex, technical playing style with the progressive metal band Mastodon.
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A.
Dale Crover
Dale Crover is an American drummer best known for his long tenure with the Melvins and his early, influential recordings and performances with Nirvana.
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B.
Benmont Tench
Benmont Tench is an American keyboardist and songwriter best known as a founding member of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and a prolific session musician for numerous rock and Americana artists.
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C.
Jim James
Jim James is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist best known as the frontman of the rock band My Morning Jacket.
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D.
James Williamson
James Williamson is an American guitarist and songwriter best known for his influential work with the proto-punk band The Stooges, particularly on their landmark album "Raw Power."
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E.
Matt Sweeney
Matt Sweeney is an American guitarist, songwriter, and producer known for his work in indie rock and metal bands as well as high-profile collaborations across diverse genres.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
drummer
ⓘ
human ⓘ record producer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ vocalist ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1990 ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Arcadea
ⓘ
Lethargy ⓘ Mastodon ⓘ Today Is the Day ⓘ |
| bandMemberOf | Mastodon ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1975-03-19 ⓘ |
| familyName | Dailor ⓘ |
| genre |
heavy metal
ⓘ
progressive metal ⓘ progressive rock ⓘ sludge metal ⓘ |
| givenName | Brann ⓘ |
| hasMusicalRole |
drummer of Mastodon
ⓘ
vocalist of Mastodon ⓘ |
| instrument |
drum kit
ⓘ
percussion ⓘ vocals ⓘ |
| memberOf | Mastodon ⓘ |
| name | Brann Dailor ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
complex technical drumming style
ⓘ
work with progressive metal band Mastodon ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Blood Mountain (album, as member of Mastodon)
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linked to:
Mastodon – Blood Mountain
Crack the Skye (album, as member of Mastodon) ⓘ
linked to:
Mastodon
Emperor of Sand (album, as member of Mastodon) ⓘ
linked to:
Mastodon – Emperor of Sand
Hushed and Grim (album, as member of Mastodon) ⓘ Leviathan (album, as member of Mastodon) ⓘ
linked to:
Mastodon – Leviathan
Once More 'Round the Sun (album, as member of Mastodon) ⓘ
linked to:
Mastodon – Once More ’Round the Sun
The Hunter (album, as member of Mastodon) ⓘ
linked to:
Mastodon
|
| occupation |
co-lead vocalist of Mastodon
ⓘ
drummer ⓘ musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ vocalist ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Rochester, New York, United States ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Relapse Records
ⓘ
Reprise Records ⓘ Warner Bros. Records ⓘ |
| residence |
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Atlanta
|
| startedActivity | 1990s ⓘ |
| style |
highly technical drum fills
ⓘ
polyrhythmic drumming ⓘ |
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: Brann Dailor Description of subject: Brann Dailor is an American drummer and vocalist best known for his complex, technical playing style with the progressive metal band Mastodon.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.