Alan Parsons
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Alan Parsons is a British audio engineer, musician, and record producer best known for his work on landmark albums like Pink Floyd's "The Dark Side of the Moon" and for leading The Alan Parsons Project.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alan Parsons canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6042857 — 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: Alan Parsons Context triple: [Albedo 0.39 (track), composer, Alan Parsons]
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A.
Trevor Horn
Trevor Horn is a renowned English record producer, musician, and songwriter known for his influential work in shaping the sound of 1980s pop and new wave music.
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B.
Tony Banks
Tony Banks is an English musician and songwriter best known as the keyboardist and a founding member of the progressive rock band Genesis.
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C.
Jeff Lynne
Jeff Lynne is an English singer, songwriter, producer, and co-founder of Electric Light Orchestra, renowned for his lush, layered production style and collaborations with major rock artists.
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D.
John Lunn
John Lunn is a Scottish composer best known for his award-winning musical scores for the television series Downton Abbey.
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E.
Kevin Godley
Kevin Godley is a British musician and acclaimed music video director, best known as a founding member of 10cc and for his innovative, visually inventive work in the medium.
- 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: Alan Parsons Target entity description: Alan Parsons is a British audio engineer, musician, and record producer best known for his work on landmark albums like Pink Floyd's "The Dark Side of the Moon" and for leading The Alan Parsons Project.
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A.
Trevor Horn
Trevor Horn is a renowned English record producer, musician, and songwriter known for his influential work in shaping the sound of 1980s pop and new wave music.
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B.
Tony Banks
Tony Banks is an English musician and songwriter best known as the keyboardist and a founding member of the progressive rock band Genesis.
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C.
Jeff Lynne
Jeff Lynne is an English singer, songwriter, producer, and co-founder of Electric Light Orchestra, renowned for his lush, layered production style and collaborations with major rock artists.
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D.
John Lunn
John Lunn is a Scottish composer best known for his award-winning musical scores for the television series Downton Abbey.
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E.
Kevin Godley
Kevin Godley is a British musician and acclaimed music video director, best known as a founding member of 10cc and for his innovative, visually inventive work in the medium.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
audio engineer
ⓘ
human ⓘ musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1960s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Pink Floyd
NERFINISHED
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The Alan Parsons Project NERFINISHED ⓘ The Beatles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Grammy Award ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1948-12-20 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
England
ⓘ
London, England ⓘ
surface form:
London
United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| employer | Abbey Road Studios NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Parsons NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| founded | The Alan Parsons Project NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
art rock
ⓘ
pop rock ⓘ progressive rock ⓘ |
| givenName | Alan ⓘ |
| instrument |
bass guitar
ⓘ
guitar ⓘ keyboards ⓘ vocals ⓘ |
| memberOf | The Alan Parsons Project NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Alan Parsons NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Abbey Road
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Eye in the Sky NERFINISHED ⓘ I Robot NERFINISHED ⓘ Let It Be NERFINISHED ⓘ Tales of Mystery and Imagination NERFINISHED ⓘ The Alan Parsons Project NERFINISHED ⓘ The Dark Side of the Moon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
audio engineer
ⓘ
composer ⓘ musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| residence | Santa Barbara, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| website | https://www.alanparsons.com/ ⓘ |
| workedOn |
Abbey Road
NERFINISHED
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Let It Be NERFINISHED ⓘ The Dark Side of the Moon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedWith |
Paul McCartney
NERFINISHED
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Pink Floyd NERFINISHED ⓘ The Beatles NERFINISHED ⓘ Wings 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: Alan Parsons Description of subject: Alan Parsons is a British audio engineer, musician, and record producer best known for his work on landmark albums like Pink Floyd's "The Dark Side of the Moon" and for leading The Alan Parsons Project.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Magic (Pilot song)