West, Bruce and Laing
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West, Bruce and Laing was a 1970s hard rock supergroup featuring Cream bassist Jack Bruce alongside Mountain members Leslie West and Corky Laing.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| West, Bruce and Laing canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6379262 — 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: West, Bruce and Laing Context triple: [Jack Bruce, memberOf, West, Bruce and Laing]
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A.
Ross and Macdonald
Ross and Macdonald was a prominent early-20th-century Canadian architectural firm known for designing major commercial and public landmarks across the country.
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B.
David Laing
David Laing was a 19th-century English clergyman and educational reformer best known for establishing Queen’s College, London, one of the first institutions to offer higher education to women in the UK.
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C.
Honeyman and Keppie
Honeyman and Keppie was a prominent late 19th- and early 20th-century Glasgow architectural firm known for nurturing the early career of Charles Rennie Mackintosh and contributing significantly to Scottish architecture.
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D.
Thomson and Sandilands
Thomson and Sandilands was a Scottish architectural firm known for designing prominent public and civic buildings in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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E.
Boller and Chivens
Boller and Chivens was an American company renowned for designing and manufacturing high-quality astronomical telescopes and spectrographs used by observatories worldwide.
- 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: West, Bruce and Laing Target entity description: West, Bruce and Laing was a 1970s hard rock supergroup featuring Cream bassist Jack Bruce alongside Mountain members Leslie West and Corky Laing.
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A.
Ross and Macdonald
Ross and Macdonald was a prominent early-20th-century Canadian architectural firm known for designing major commercial and public landmarks across the country.
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B.
David Laing
David Laing was a 19th-century English clergyman and educational reformer best known for establishing Queen’s College, London, one of the first institutions to offer higher education to women in the UK.
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C.
Honeyman and Keppie
Honeyman and Keppie was a prominent late 19th- and early 20th-century Glasgow architectural firm known for nurturing the early career of Charles Rennie Mackintosh and contributing significantly to Scottish architecture.
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D.
Thomson and Sandilands
Thomson and Sandilands was a Scottish architectural firm known for designing prominent public and civic buildings in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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E.
Boller and Chivens
Boller and Chivens was an American company renowned for designing and manufacturing high-quality astronomical telescopes and spectrographs used by observatories worldwide.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
hard rock band
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musician ⓘ rock supergroup ⓘ |
| activeYearsEndYear | 1974 ⓘ |
| activeYearsStartYear | 1972 ⓘ |
| associatedBand |
Cream
ⓘ
Mountain ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| formedBy |
Corky Laing
ⓘ
Jack Bruce ⓘ Leslie West ⓘ |
| genre |
blues rock
ⓘ
hard rock ⓘ rock ⓘ |
| hasDiscographyItem |
Live 'n' Kickin'
ⓘ
Whatever Turns You On ⓘ Why Dontcha ⓘ |
| hasInfluence |
blues
ⓘ
psychedelic rock ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Corky Laing
ⓘ
Jack Bruce ⓘ Leslie West ⓘ |
| hasPart | power trio lineup ⓘ |
| locationOfFormation | New York City ⓘ |
| notableSong |
Pollution Woman
ⓘ
Rock & Roll Machine ⓘ The Doctor ⓘ Why Dontcha ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Live 'n' Kickin'
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Whatever Turns You On ⓘ Why Dontcha ⓘ |
| occupation |
bassist
ⓘ
drummer ⓘ guitarist ⓘ singer ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| performerOf |
Rock & Roll Machine
ⓘ
The Doctor ⓘ Why Dontcha ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Columbia Records
ⓘ
Epic Records ⓘ |
| separatedFrom |
Cream
ⓘ
Mountain ⓘ |
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: West, Bruce and Laing Description of subject: West, Bruce and Laing was a 1970s hard rock supergroup featuring Cream bassist Jack Bruce alongside Mountain members Leslie West and Corky Laing.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.