The Alan White Band
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The Alan White Band is a rock group formed by renowned drummer Alan White, best known for his work with the progressive rock band Yes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Alan White Band canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8544250 — 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: The Alan White Band Context triple: [Alan White, associatedAct, The Alan White Band]
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A.
The Rossington-Collins Band
The Rossington-Collins Band was a Southern rock group formed by former Lynyrd Skynyrd members in the late 1970s, known for carrying on that band’s musical legacy after the tragic 1977 plane crash.
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B.
Beck, Bogert & Appice
Beck, Bogert & Appice was a short-lived early-1970s rock supergroup featuring guitarist Jeff Beck, bassist Tim Bogert, and drummer Carmine Appice, known for their heavy blues-rock sound.
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C.
Lord Huron
Lord Huron is an American indie folk band known for its cinematic, atmospheric sound and storytelling-driven songs such as "The Night We Met."
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D.
Mickey Hart Band
The Mickey Hart Band is a rock and world-music fusion group led by Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart, known for its rhythm-heavy performances and exploration of global percussion traditions.
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E.
Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band
Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band is an American blues-rock group led by guitarist Kenny Wayne Shepherd, known for its high-energy performances and modern take on classic blues.
- 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: The Alan White Band Target entity description: The Alan White Band is a rock group formed by renowned drummer Alan White, best known for his work with the progressive rock band Yes.
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A.
The Rossington-Collins Band
The Rossington-Collins Band was a Southern rock group formed by former Lynyrd Skynyrd members in the late 1970s, known for carrying on that band’s musical legacy after the tragic 1977 plane crash.
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B.
Beck, Bogert & Appice
Beck, Bogert & Appice was a short-lived early-1970s rock supergroup featuring guitarist Jeff Beck, bassist Tim Bogert, and drummer Carmine Appice, known for their heavy blues-rock sound.
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C.
Lord Huron
Lord Huron is an American indie folk band known for its cinematic, atmospheric sound and storytelling-driven songs such as "The Night We Met."
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D.
Mickey Hart Band
The Mickey Hart Band is a rock and world-music fusion group led by Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart, known for its rhythm-heavy performances and exploration of global percussion traditions.
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E.
Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band
Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band is an American blues-rock group led by guitarist Kenny Wayne Shepherd, known for its high-energy performances and modern take on classic blues.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
drummer
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musician ⓘ rock band ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
The Alan White Band
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Yes ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| drummer | Alan White ⓘ |
| founder | Alan White ⓘ |
| genre |
progressive rock
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progressive rock ⓘ rock ⓘ |
| hasMember | Alan White ⓘ |
| hasNotableMember | Alan White ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryInstrumentOfLeader | drums ⓘ |
| memberOf | Yes ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Alan White ⓘ |
| nationality | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | being led by Yes drummer Alan White ⓘ |
| occupation |
drummer
ⓘ
songwriter ⓘ |
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: The Alan White Band Description of subject: The Alan White Band is a rock group formed by renowned drummer Alan White, best known for his work with the progressive rock band Yes.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
The Alan White Band