Christopher Wolstenholme
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Christopher Wolstenholme is an English musician best known as the bassist and backing vocalist for the rock band Muse.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Christopher Wolstenholme canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8787166 — 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: Christopher Wolstenholme Context triple: [Muse, hasMember, Christopher Wolstenholme]
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A.
William Walmsley
William Walmsley was a British entrepreneur and co-founder of the company that evolved into the Jaguar car marque.
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B.
Edward Whitchurch
Edward Whitchurch was a 16th-century English printer and Protestant reformer best known for co-publishing early English translations of the Bible, including the Matthew Bible.
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C.
Thomas Holme
Thomas Holme was a 17th-century surveyor and cartographer who served as William Penn’s chief surveyor and laid out the original plan for Philadelphia.
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D.
William Wotton
William Wotton was a late 17th- and early 18th-century English scholar, theologian, and linguist known for his role in the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns and for being satirized by Jonathan Swift.
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E.
George Busk
George Busk was a 19th-century British surgeon, zoologist, and paleontologist known for his work on marine invertebrates and fossil mammals, and for his involvement in leading Victorian scientific societies.
- 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: Christopher Wolstenholme Target entity description: Christopher Wolstenholme is an English musician best known as the bassist and backing vocalist for the rock band Muse.
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A.
William Walmsley
William Walmsley was a British entrepreneur and co-founder of the company that evolved into the Jaguar car marque.
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B.
Edward Whitchurch
Edward Whitchurch was a 16th-century English printer and Protestant reformer best known for co-publishing early English translations of the Bible, including the Matthew Bible.
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C.
Thomas Holme
Thomas Holme was a 17th-century surveyor and cartographer who served as William Penn’s chief surveyor and laid out the original plan for Philadelphia.
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D.
William Wotton
William Wotton was a late 17th- and early 18th-century English scholar, theologian, and linguist known for his role in the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns and for being satirized by Jonathan Swift.
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E.
George Busk
George Busk was a 19th-century British surgeon, zoologist, and paleontologist known for his work on marine invertebrates and fossil mammals, and for his involvement in leading Victorian scientific societies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bassist
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human ⓘ musician ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1990s ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Chris Wolstenholme ⓘ |
| associatedAct | Muse ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Grammy Award for Best Rock Album (with Muse)
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linked to:
Grammy Award for Best Rock Album
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| birthDate | 1978-12-02 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
England
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Rotherham ⓘ South Yorkshire ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| familyName | Wolstenholme ⓘ |
| genre |
alternative rock
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hard rock ⓘ progressive rock ⓘ space rock ⓘ |
| givenName | Christopher ⓘ |
| handedness | right-handed ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Jaco Pastorius
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James Jamerson ⓘ John Deacon ⓘ Paul McCartney ⓘ |
| instrument |
bass guitar
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guitar ⓘ harmonica ⓘ keyboards ⓘ |
| memberOf | Muse ⓘ |
| name | Christopher Wolstenholme ⓘ |
| nationality | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
bass performance on the album "Absolution"
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bass performance on the album "Black Holes and Revelations" ⓘ bass performance on the album "Drones" ⓘ bass performance on the album "Origin of Symmetry" ⓘ bass performance on the album "Simulation Theory" ⓘ bass performance on the album "The Resistance" ⓘ song "Liquid State" ⓘ song "Save Me" ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 8 ⓘ |
| occupation |
backing vocalist
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bassist ⓘ musician ⓘ |
| residence |
Devon
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England ⓘ |
| role |
backing vocals
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bass guitar ⓘ |
| spouse | Kelly Wolstenholme ⓘ |
| startTimeInBand | 1994 ⓘ |
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: Christopher Wolstenholme Description of subject: Christopher Wolstenholme is an English musician best known as the bassist and backing vocalist for the rock band Muse.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.