Ged Grimes
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Ged Grimes is a Scottish bassist and composer best known for his work with the rock band Simple Minds and for composing music for video games.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ged Grimes canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7081843 — 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: Ged Grimes Context triple: [Simple Minds, hasMember, Ged Grimes]
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A.
John Grimes
John Grimes is a fictional U.S. Army Ranger private depicted as a young, relatively inexperienced soldier thrust into intense urban combat in the film "Black Hawk Down."
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B.
Armand Van Helden
Armand Van Helden is an American DJ, producer, and remixer known as a leading figure in house music since the 1990s, with hits like "You Don't Know Me" and "My My My."
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C.
Shaun Gallagher
Shaun Gallagher is a contemporary American philosopher best known for his work in phenomenology and the philosophy of mind, particularly on embodied cognition and self-consciousness.
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D.
David Ashrow
David Ashrow was an American dentist-turned-actor and later a concert baritone who became best known as the husband and professional partner of film star June Allyson.
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E.
Eric Blore
Eric Blore was an English character actor best known for his comic portrayals of butlers and valets in 1930s and 1940s Hollywood films.
- 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: Ged Grimes Target entity description: Ged Grimes is a Scottish bassist and composer best known for his work with the rock band Simple Minds and for composing music for video games.
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A.
John Grimes
John Grimes is a fictional U.S. Army Ranger private depicted as a young, relatively inexperienced soldier thrust into intense urban combat in the film "Black Hawk Down."
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B.
Armand Van Helden
Armand Van Helden is an American DJ, producer, and remixer known as a leading figure in house music since the 1990s, with hits like "You Don't Know Me" and "My My My."
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C.
Shaun Gallagher
Shaun Gallagher is a contemporary American philosopher best known for his work in phenomenology and the philosophy of mind, particularly on embodied cognition and self-consciousness.
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D.
David Ashrow
David Ashrow was an American dentist-turned-actor and later a concert baritone who became best known as the husband and professional partner of film star June Allyson.
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E.
Eric Blore
Eric Blore was an English character actor best known for his comic portrayals of butlers and valets in 1930s and 1940s Hollywood films.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bassist
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composer ⓘ human ⓘ rock musician ⓘ video game composer ⓘ |
| activeIn |
music industry
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video game industry ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Danny Wilson
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Deacon Blue ⓘ Eurythmics ⓘ Midge Ure ⓘ Simple Minds ⓘ |
| bestKnownFor |
being bassist for Simple Minds
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composing music for video games ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
rock music performance
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video game music composition ⓘ |
| genre |
new wave
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pop rock ⓘ rock music ⓘ |
| givenName | Gerald Grimes ⓘ |
| hasCreativeDiscipline |
music composition
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soundtrack composition ⓘ |
| instrument |
bass guitar
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guitar ⓘ keyboards ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Danny Wilson
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Deacon Blue ⓘ Simple Minds ⓘ |
| name | Ged Grimes ⓘ |
| nationality | Scottish ⓘ |
| notableRole | touring and recording bassist for Simple Minds ⓘ |
| notableWork |
music for video game Amplitude
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music for video game Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex ⓘ music for video game Earthworm Jim 3D ⓘ music for video game Enter the Matrix ⓘ music for video game Shrek 2 ⓘ music for video game The Bard's Tale ⓘ music for video game The Sims 2 ⓘ |
| occupation |
bassist
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composer ⓘ record producer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfOrigin | Scotland ⓘ |
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: Ged Grimes Description of subject: Ged Grimes is a Scottish bassist and composer best known for his work with the rock band Simple Minds and for composing music for video games.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.