Aaron Sterling
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Aaron Sterling is an American drummer and session musician known for his work with artists like John Mayer and Taylor Swift.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Aaron Sterling canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6379877 — 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: Aaron Sterling Context triple: [Born and Raised, hasPersonnel, Aaron Sterling]
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A.
Elias Pearce
Elias Pearce was the mountaineer credited with making the first recorded ascent of Mount Shasta in California.
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B.
Alex Convery
Alex Convery is a screenwriter best known for writing the script for the 2023 sports drama film "Air," which chronicles Nike's pursuit of Michael Jordan.
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C.
Brandon Sullivan
Brandon Sullivan is the troubled, sex-addicted protagonist of the 2011 drama film "Shame," portrayed by Michael Fassbender.
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D.
Devlin Elliott
Devlin Elliott is an American theater and film producer best known as the husband of actor Nathan Lane.
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E.
Aaron Horvath
Aaron Horvath is an American animator, writer, and director best known for co-creating and directing the animated series "Teen Titans Go!" and co-directing "The Super Mario Bros. Movie."
- 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: Aaron Sterling Target entity description: Aaron Sterling is an American drummer and session musician known for his work with artists like John Mayer and Taylor Swift.
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A.
Elias Pearce
Elias Pearce was the mountaineer credited with making the first recorded ascent of Mount Shasta in California.
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B.
Alex Convery
Alex Convery is a screenwriter best known for writing the script for the 2023 sports drama film "Air," which chronicles Nike's pursuit of Michael Jordan.
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C.
Brandon Sullivan
Brandon Sullivan is the troubled, sex-addicted protagonist of the 2011 drama film "Shame," portrayed by Michael Fassbender.
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D.
Devlin Elliott
Devlin Elliott is an American theater and film producer best known as the husband of actor Nathan Lane.
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E.
Aaron Horvath
Aaron Horvath is an American animator, writer, and director best known for co-creating and directing the animated series "Teen Titans Go!" and co-directing "The Super Mario Bros. Movie."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
drummer
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musician ⓘ person ⓘ session musician ⓘ |
| activeIn | 21st century ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Fiona Apple
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Gavin DeGraw ⓘ John Mayer ⓘ Kelly Clarkson ⓘ Lana Del Rey ⓘ Natalie Maines ⓘ Sara Bareilles ⓘ Sheryl Crow ⓘ Taylor Swift ⓘ The Civil Wars ⓘ |
| basedIn | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| genre |
country
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folk rock ⓘ pop rock ⓘ rock ⓘ |
| hasChild |
daughter
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son ⓘ |
| hasWorkedOn |
John Mayer album "Born and Raised"
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John Mayer album "Paradise Valley" ⓘ Taylor Swift recordings as session drummer ⓘ |
| hasYouTubeChannel | Aaron Sterling ⓘ |
| instrument |
drum kit
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percussion ⓘ |
| knownFor |
studio drumming versatility
ⓘ
tasteful groove-oriented playing ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
collaborations with John Mayer
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collaborations with Taylor Swift ⓘ studio work with Fiona Apple ⓘ studio work with Sara Bareilles ⓘ studio work with The Civil Wars ⓘ |
| occupation |
drummer
ⓘ
record producer ⓘ session musician ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| spouse | Lauren Sterling ⓘ |
| teaches | online drum lessons ⓘ |
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: Aaron Sterling Description of subject: Aaron Sterling is an American drummer and session musician known for his work with artists like John Mayer and Taylor Swift.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.