Robin Zander
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Robin Zander is an American rock singer and guitarist best known as the lead vocalist of the band Cheap Trick.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Robin Zander canonical | 7 |
| Robin Taylor Zander | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6976392 — 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: Robin Zander Context triple: [Cheap Trick, member, Robin Zander]
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A.
Michael Andrew McKagan
Michael Andrew McKagan is an American musician best known as Duff McKagan, the longtime bassist of the rock band Guns N' Roses.
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B.
John Corabi
John Corabi is an American hard rock singer and guitarist best known for his work with bands like Mötley Crüe, The Scream, and Ratt.
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C.
Dale Crover
Dale Crover is an American drummer best known for his long tenure with the Melvins and his early, influential recordings and performances with Nirvana.
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D.
Tommy Thayer
Tommy Thayer is an American guitarist best known as the lead guitarist for the rock band Kiss, where he performs in the "Spaceman" persona originally made famous by Ace Frehley.
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E.
Benmont Tench
Benmont Tench is an American keyboardist and songwriter best known as a founding member of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and a prolific session musician for numerous rock and Americana artists.
- 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: Robin Zander Target entity description: Robin Zander is an American rock singer and guitarist best known as the lead vocalist of the band Cheap Trick.
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A.
Michael Andrew McKagan
Michael Andrew McKagan is an American musician best known as Duff McKagan, the longtime bassist of the rock band Guns N' Roses.
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B.
John Corabi
John Corabi is an American hard rock singer and guitarist best known for his work with bands like Mötley Crüe, The Scream, and Ratt.
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C.
Dale Crover
Dale Crover is an American drummer best known for his long tenure with the Melvins and his early, influential recordings and performances with Nirvana.
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D.
Tommy Thayer
Tommy Thayer is an American guitarist best known as the lead guitarist for the rock band Kiss, where he performs in the "Spaceman" persona originally made famous by Ace Frehley.
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E.
Benmont Tench
Benmont Tench is an American keyboardist and songwriter best known as a founding member of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and a prolific session musician for numerous rock and Americana artists.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
guitarist
ⓘ
human ⓘ rock musician ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activeIn | music industry ⓘ |
| associatedAct | Cheap Trick ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1953-01-23 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Beloit, Wisconsin, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Beloit, Wisconsin
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| eyeColor | blue ⓘ |
| familyName | Zander ⓘ |
| genre |
classic rock
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hard rock ⓘ power pop ⓘ rock ⓘ |
| givenName | Robin ⓘ |
| hairColor | blond ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Holland Zander
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Ian Zander ⓘ Monique Zander ⓘ Robin Taylor Zander ⓘ
linked to:
Robin Zander
|
| hasSignature | distinct, powerful rock vocal style ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Cheap Trick ⓘ |
| name | Robin Zander ⓘ |
| notableEvent | inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Cheap Trick in 2016 ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the lead vocalist of Cheap Trick ⓘ |
| notableWork |
lead vocals on "Dream Police"
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lead vocals on "I Want You to Want Me" ⓘ lead vocals on "Surrender" ⓘ lead vocals on "The Flame" ⓘ solo album "Countryside Blvd" ⓘ solo album "Robin Zander" ⓘ |
| occupation |
guitarist
ⓘ
singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| playsInstrument |
guitar
ⓘ
vocals ⓘ |
| positionHeld | lead vocalist of Cheap Trick ⓘ |
| previousSpouse | Karen Zander ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Big3 Records
ⓘ
Epic Records ⓘ |
| residence | Florida, United States ⓘ |
| spouse | Pamela Stein ⓘ |
| startTimeOfActivity | 1970s ⓘ |
| 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: Robin Zander Description of subject: Robin Zander is an American rock singer and guitarist best known as the lead vocalist of the band Cheap Trick.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Robin Zander