Dez Dickerson – guitar, backing vocals
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Dez Dickerson is an American guitarist and singer best known as the lead guitarist in Prince’s band The Revolution during the late 1970s and early 1980s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dez Dickerson – guitar, backing vocals canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9424793 — 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: Dez Dickerson – guitar, backing vocals Context triple: [Dirty Mind, personnel, Dez Dickerson – guitar, backing vocals]
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A.
Jeff Matika – guitar, backing vocals
Jeff Matika is a guitarist and backing vocalist best known for his work as a touring and session musician with punk rock bands, including Green Day.
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B.
Noodles – lead guitar, backing vocals
Noodles is the longtime lead guitarist and backing vocalist of the American punk rock band The Offspring, known for his energetic playing style and presence on their most popular albums.
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C.
Ed Droste – vocals, guitar
Ed Droste is an American musician best known as a founding member, vocalist, and guitarist of the indie rock band Grizzly Bear.
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D.
Brent Hinds – guitar, vocals
Brent Hinds is an American musician best known as the lead guitarist and vocalist of the progressive metal band Mastodon.
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E.
Todd Morse – bass, backing vocals
Todd Morse is an American musician best known as the bassist and backing vocalist for the punk rock band The Offspring.
- 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: Dez Dickerson – guitar, backing vocals Target entity description: Dez Dickerson is an American guitarist and singer best known as the lead guitarist in Prince’s band The Revolution during the late 1970s and early 1980s.
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A.
Jeff Matika – guitar, backing vocals
Jeff Matika is a guitarist and backing vocalist best known for his work as a touring and session musician with punk rock bands, including Green Day.
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B.
Noodles – lead guitar, backing vocals
Noodles is the longtime lead guitarist and backing vocalist of the American punk rock band The Offspring, known for his energetic playing style and presence on their most popular albums.
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C.
Ed Droste – vocals, guitar
Ed Droste is an American musician best known as a founding member, vocalist, and guitarist of the indie rock band Grizzly Bear.
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D.
Brent Hinds – guitar, vocals
Brent Hinds is an American musician best known as the lead guitarist and vocalist of the progressive metal band Mastodon.
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E.
Todd Morse – bass, backing vocals
Todd Morse is an American musician best known as the bassist and backing vocalist for the punk rock band The Offspring.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
guitarist
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human ⓘ record producer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1970s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Prince
NERFINISHED
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The Revolution NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Desmond D. Dickerson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1955-08-07 ⓘ |
| familyName | Dickerson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| founded |
Absolute Publicity
NERFINISHED
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Absolute Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
Christian rock
ⓘ
funk rock ⓘ pop rock ⓘ rock music ⓘ |
| givenName | Desmond NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| instrument |
guitar
ⓘ
vocals ⓘ |
| laterCareerFocus |
Christian music industry
ⓘ
artist management ⓘ music publishing ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Prince and The Revolution
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Revolution NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Dez Dickerson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notablePerformance |
1999 Tour with Prince
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Controversy Tour with Prince NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableSongwritingCredit | "He’s So Dull" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
backing vocals with Prince and The Revolution
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guitar solo on "Little Red Corvette" ⓘ |
| occupation |
guitarist
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record producer ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| performedOn |
album "1999"
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
album "Controversy" NERFINISHED ⓘ album "Dirty Mind" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| role | lead guitarist in Prince’s band The Revolution ⓘ |
| yearsWithBand |
early 1980s
ⓘ
late 1970s ⓘ |
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: Dez Dickerson – guitar, backing vocals Description of subject: Dez Dickerson is an American guitarist and singer best known as the lead guitarist in Prince’s band The Revolution during the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.