Steve Jordan (drums)
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Steve Jordan is an American drummer, producer, and songwriter renowned for his work with artists like John Mayer, the Rolling Stones, and in the Saturday Night Live and Late Night with David Letterman bands.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Steve Jordan (drums) canonical | 1 |
| Steve Jordan – percussion | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6380108 — 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: Steve Jordan (drums) Context triple: [Waiting on the World to Change, performer, Steve Jordan (drums)]
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A.
Brian Downey (drummer)
Brian Downey is an Irish drummer best known as a founding member of the hard rock band Thin Lizzy.
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B.
Carter Beauford
Carter Beauford is an American drummer and founding member of the Dave Matthews Band, renowned for his complex, ambidextrous playing style and jazz-influenced rock performances.
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C.
Tony Clark
Tony Clark is a former Major League Baseball first baseman who became the influential executive director of the MLB Players Association.
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D.
Mark Aronoff
Mark Aronoff is an American linguist renowned for his influential work in morphology and for his long-standing role as a professor at Stony Brook University.
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E.
Lenny White
Lenny White is an American jazz fusion drummer best known for his work with Chick Corea’s band Return to Forever and his influential contributions to 1970s fusion.
- 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: Steve Jordan (drums) Target entity description: Steve Jordan is an American drummer, producer, and songwriter renowned for his work with artists like John Mayer, the Rolling Stones, and in the Saturday Night Live and Late Night with David Letterman bands.
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A.
Brian Downey (drummer)
Brian Downey is an Irish drummer best known as a founding member of the hard rock band Thin Lizzy.
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B.
Carter Beauford
Carter Beauford is an American drummer and founding member of the Dave Matthews Band, renowned for his complex, ambidextrous playing style and jazz-influenced rock performances.
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C.
Tony Clark
Tony Clark is a former Major League Baseball first baseman who became the influential executive director of the MLB Players Association.
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D.
Mark Aronoff
Mark Aronoff is an American linguist renowned for his influential work in morphology and for his long-standing role as a professor at Stony Brook University.
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E.
Lenny White
Lenny White is an American jazz fusion drummer best known for his work with Chick Corea’s band Return to Forever and his influential contributions to 1970s fusion.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
drummer
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human ⓘ record producer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Alicia Keys
ⓘ
B.B. King ⓘ
linked to:
B. B. King
Blues Brothers Band ⓘ
linked to:
The Blues Brothers Band
Bob Dylan ⓘ Bruce Springsteen ⓘ Don Henley ⓘ Eric Clapton ⓘ Herbie Hancock ⓘ John Mayer ⓘ John Mayer Trio ⓘ John Scofield ⓘ Keith Richards ⓘ Neil Young ⓘ Robert Cray ⓘ Sheryl Crow ⓘ Sonny Rollins ⓘ The Rolling Stones ⓘ X-Pensive Winos ⓘ
linked to:
The X-Pensive Winos
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer |
Late Night with David Letterman
ⓘ
Saturday Night Live Band ⓘ |
| familyName | Jordan ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
live performance
ⓘ
music production ⓘ songwriting ⓘ |
| genre |
R&B
ⓘ
blues ⓘ rock music ⓘ |
| givenName | Steve ⓘ |
| instrument |
drum kit
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percussion ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Steve Jordan ⓘ |
| notableWork |
drummer for John Mayer Trio
ⓘ
drummer for The Rolling Stones ⓘ member of the Late Night with David Letterman band ⓘ member of the Saturday Night Live Band ⓘ producer for John Mayer recordings ⓘ producer for Keith Richards solo projects ⓘ session drummer on numerous rock and blues albums ⓘ |
| occupation |
drummer
ⓘ
record producer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation | New York City ⓘ |
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: Steve Jordan (drums) Description of subject: Steve Jordan is an American drummer, producer, and songwriter renowned for his work with artists like John Mayer, the Rolling Stones, and in the Saturday Night Live and Late Night with David Letterman bands.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Steve Jordan (drums)