Glenn Hughes
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Glenn Hughes is an English rock bassist and vocalist best known for his work with Deep Purple and Black Sabbath, as well as his soulful, hard rock solo career.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Glenn Hughes canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5784132 — 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: Glenn Hughes Context triple: [Black Sabbath, member, Glenn Hughes]
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A.
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.
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B.
Graham Bonnet
Graham Bonnet is an English rock singer best known for his powerful vocals and work with bands like Rainbow, Alcatrazz, and the Michael Schenker Group.
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C.
Roger Glover
Roger Glover is an English bassist, songwriter, and record producer best known as a longtime member of the rock band Deep Purple.
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D.
Rudy Sarzo
Rudy Sarzo is a Cuban-American hard rock and heavy metal bassist best known for his work with bands like Quiet Riot, Ozzy Osbourne, and Whitesnake.
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E.
Ian Paice
Ian Paice is an English rock drummer best known as the longtime drummer for Deep Purple and for his work with other hard rock bands.
- 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: Glenn Hughes Target entity description: Glenn Hughes is an English rock bassist and vocalist best known for his work with Deep Purple and Black Sabbath, as well as his soulful, hard rock solo career.
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A.
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.
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B.
Graham Bonnet
Graham Bonnet is an English rock singer best known for his powerful vocals and work with bands like Rainbow, Alcatrazz, and the Michael Schenker Group.
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C.
Roger Glover
Roger Glover is an English bassist, songwriter, and record producer best known as a longtime member of the rock band Deep Purple.
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D.
Rudy Sarzo
Rudy Sarzo is a Cuban-American hard rock and heavy metal bassist best known for his work with bands like Quiet Riot, Ozzy Osbourne, and Whitesnake.
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E.
Ian Paice
Ian Paice is an English rock drummer best known as the longtime drummer for Deep Purple and for his work with other hard rock bands.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bassist
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human ⓘ musician ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1960s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Black Country Communion
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Black Sabbath NERFINISHED ⓘ David Coverdale NERFINISHED ⓘ Deep Purple NERFINISHED ⓘ Hughes Turner Project NERFINISHED ⓘ Jason Bonham NERFINISHED ⓘ Joe Bonamassa NERFINISHED ⓘ The Dead Daisies NERFINISHED ⓘ Tony Iommi NERFINISHED ⓘ Trapeze NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Glenn Hughes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1951-08-21 ⓘ |
| genre |
blues rock
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funk rock ⓘ hard rock ⓘ soul ⓘ |
| instrument |
bass guitar
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guitar ⓘ vocals ⓘ |
| knownFor |
combining rock and soul influences
ⓘ
powerful vocal range ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Black Country Communion
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Black Sabbath NERFINISHED ⓘ California Breed NERFINISHED ⓘ Deep Purple NERFINISHED ⓘ Hughes Turner Project NERFINISHED ⓘ The Dead Daisies NERFINISHED ⓘ Trapeze NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Glenn Hughes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | English ⓘ |
| notableAlbum |
Burn
NERFINISHED
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Seventh Star NERFINISHED ⓘ Stormbringer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableSoloAlbum |
Addiction
NERFINISHED
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From Now On... NERFINISHED ⓘ Music for the Divine NERFINISHED ⓘ Play Me Out NERFINISHED ⓘ Resonate NERFINISHED ⓘ Soul Mover NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
membership in Black Sabbath
ⓘ
membership in Deep Purple ⓘ |
| occupation |
bassist
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singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Cannock, Staffordshire, England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| vocalStyle |
hard rock
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soulful ⓘ |
| voiceType | tenor ⓘ |
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: Glenn Hughes Description of subject: Glenn Hughes is an English rock bassist and vocalist best known for his work with Deep Purple and Black Sabbath, as well as his soulful, hard rock solo career.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.