Michael Eavis
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Michael Eavis is an English dairy farmer and philanthropist best known as the founder and long-time organizer of the Glastonbury Festival, one of the world’s most famous music and performing arts festivals.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Michael Eavis canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8861698 — 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: Michael Eavis Context triple: [Lady Arabella Spencer-Churchill, associatedWith, Michael Eavis]
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A.
Robert Grubb
Robert Grubb is an Australian actor known for his work in film, television, and theatre, including notable roles in period dramas and popular Australian series.
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B.
John Stanier
John Stanier is an American drummer best known for his powerful, precise playing with the alternative metal band Helmet and later with experimental rock groups like Battles.
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C.
John Stanier
John Stanier is a cinematographer best known for his work on major action films such as "Rambo III."
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D.
Mike Hunt
Mike Hunt is a name best known as a long-running prank or joke name in English-speaking popular culture due to its phonetic resemblance to a vulgar phrase.
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E.
Greg Leisz
Greg Leisz is an American multi-instrumentalist and renowned session musician, best known for his expressive pedal steel and guitar work across a wide range of rock, country, and Americana recordings.
- 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: Michael Eavis Target entity description: Michael Eavis is an English dairy farmer and philanthropist best known as the founder and long-time organizer of the Glastonbury Festival, one of the world’s most famous music and performing arts festivals.
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A.
Robert Grubb
Robert Grubb is an Australian actor known for his work in film, television, and theatre, including notable roles in period dramas and popular Australian series.
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B.
John Stanier
John Stanier is an American drummer best known for his powerful, precise playing with the alternative metal band Helmet and later with experimental rock groups like Battles.
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C.
John Stanier
John Stanier is a cinematographer best known for his work on major action films such as "Rambo III."
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D.
Mike Hunt
Mike Hunt is a name best known as a long-running prank or joke name in English-speaking popular culture due to its phonetic resemblance to a vulgar phrase.
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E.
Greg Leisz
Greg Leisz is an American multi-instrumentalist and renowned session musician, best known for his expressive pedal steel and guitar work across a wide range of rock, country, and Americana recordings.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
festival founder
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human ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Commander of the Order of the British Empire
NERFINISHED
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NME Award for Godlike Genius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1935-10-17 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Pilton, Somerset, England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| child |
Emily Eavis
NERFINISHED
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Juliet Eavis NERFINISHED ⓘ Patrick Eavis NERFINISHED ⓘ Rebecca Eavis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collaboratesWith | Emily Eavis on Glastonbury Festival organization ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Wells Cathedral School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
Glastonbury Festival
NERFINISHED
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Worthy Farm NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Eavis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| founded | Glastonbury Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | music and performing arts festival ⓘ |
| givenName | Athelstan Joseph Michael NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChildCollaborator | Emily Eavis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| honorificTitle | CBE NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| industry |
dairy farming
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music festivals ⓘ |
| knownFor |
founding the Glastonbury Festival
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organizing the Glastonbury Festival ⓘ |
| militaryService | British Merchant Navy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Michael Eavis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | English ⓘ |
| notableEvent | first Glastonbury Festival in 1970 ⓘ |
| notableWork | Glastonbury Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
dairy farmer
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festival organizer ⓘ philanthropist ⓘ |
| owns | Worthy Farm NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| philanthropicFocus |
international development charities
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local charities in Somerset ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | Somerset, England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalAffiliation | Labour Party (UK) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | organizer of Glastonbury Festival ⓘ |
| religion | Methodism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Pilton, Somerset, England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse |
Elizabeth Eavis
NERFINISHED
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Jean Eavis NERFINISHED ⓘ Ruth Eavis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startTime | 1970 ⓘ |
| uses | Worthy Farm as Glastonbury Festival site NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Michael Eavis Description of subject: Michael Eavis is an English dairy farmer and philanthropist best known as the founder and long-time organizer of the Glastonbury Festival, one of the world’s most famous music and performing arts festivals.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.