Steve Clark
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Steve Clark was an English guitarist and principal songwriter best known for his influential work with the rock band Def Leppard during their rise to global fame in the 1980s.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Steve Clark canonical | 13 |
| Steve Clark (posthumous writing credits) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6500181 — 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 Clark Context triple: [Def Leppard, formerMember, Steve Clark]
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A.
K.K. Downing
K.K. Downing is an English guitarist and songwriter best known as a founding member and longtime lead guitarist of the heavy metal band Judas Priest.
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B.
John Sykes
John Sykes is an English rock guitarist and songwriter best known for his work with bands like Thin Lizzy, Whitesnake, and Blue Murder.
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C.
Vivian Campbell
Vivian Campbell is a Northern Irish rock guitarist best known for his work with bands such as Dio, Def Leppard, and Thin Lizzy.
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D.
Clive Burr
Clive Burr was an English drummer best known for his influential work on Iron Maiden’s early albums, helping define the band’s classic heavy metal sound.
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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: Steve Clark Target entity description: Steve Clark was an English guitarist and principal songwriter best known for his influential work with the rock band Def Leppard during their rise to global fame in the 1980s.
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A.
K.K. Downing
K.K. Downing is an English guitarist and songwriter best known as a founding member and longtime lead guitarist of the heavy metal band Judas Priest.
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B.
John Sykes
John Sykes is an English rock guitarist and songwriter best known for his work with bands like Thin Lizzy, Whitesnake, and Blue Murder.
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C.
Vivian Campbell
Vivian Campbell is a Northern Irish rock guitarist best known for his work with bands such as Dio, Def Leppard, and Thin Lizzy.
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D.
Clive Burr
Clive Burr was an English drummer best known for his influential work on Iron Maiden’s early albums, helping define the band’s classic heavy metal sound.
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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 (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
guitarist
ⓘ
human ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1991 ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1970s ⓘ |
| alias | Steve Clark ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Def Leppard
ⓘ
Joe Elliott ⓘ Pete Willis ⓘ Phil Collen ⓘ Rick Allen ⓘ Rick Savage ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1960-04-23 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Hillsborough, Sheffield, England
ⓘ
linked to:
Sheffield, Yorkshire, England
|
| causeOfDeath | alcohol and drug-related causes ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1991-01-08 ⓘ |
| familyName | Clark ⓘ |
| fullName | Stephen Maynard Clark ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
glam metal
ⓘ
hard rock ⓘ heavy metal ⓘ |
| givenName | Stephen ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn | 1980s hard rock guitar style ⓘ |
| instrument | electric guitar ⓘ |
| memberOf | Def Leppard ⓘ |
| nationality | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | influential guitar riffs and arrangements in Def Leppard's 1980s albums ⓘ |
| notableSongContributions |
Foolin'
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Hysteria ⓘ Photograph ⓘ Pour Some Sugar on Me ⓘ Rock of Ages ⓘ |
| notableWork |
High 'n' Dry (album)
ⓘ
linked to:
High 'n' Dry
Hysteria (album) ⓘ
linked to:
Hysteria
On Through the Night (album) ⓘ
linked to:
On Through the Night
Pyromania (album) ⓘ
linked to:
Pyromania
|
| occupation |
guitarist
ⓘ
musician ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| partOf |
New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement
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linked to:
New Wave of British Heavy Metal
|
| placeOfDeath | London, England ⓘ |
| positionHeld | principal songwriter in Def Leppard ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Mercury Records
ⓘ
Vertigo Records ⓘ |
| residence |
Sheffield, England
ⓘ
linked to:
Sheffield
|
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 Clark Description of subject: Steve Clark was an English guitarist and principal songwriter best known for his influential work with the rock band Def Leppard during their rise to global fame in the 1980s.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Steve Clark