Dez Dickerson
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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 early 1980s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dez Dickerson canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9520411 — 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 Context triple: [The Revolution, member, Dez Dickerson]
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A.
Herb Reed
Herb Reed was an American bass singer best known as a founding member of the influential vocal group The Platters.
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B.
Buck Jarrett
Buck Jarrett is the older brother of Conrad Jarrett in Judith Guest’s novel "Ordinary People," whose death in a boating accident profoundly affects his family.
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C.
Rex Scouten
Rex Scouten was a longtime White House staff member who served multiple presidents in key roles overseeing the executive mansion’s operations and preservation.
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D.
Tom Owens
Tom Owens is a former professional basketball player best known for his time in the ABA and NBA during the 1970s and early 1980s.
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E.
Heck Allen
Heck Allen was an American writer best known for his Western novels and screenplays, often published under the pseudonym Will Henry.
- 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 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 early 1980s.
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A.
Herb Reed
Herb Reed was an American bass singer best known as a founding member of the influential vocal group The Platters.
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B.
Buck Jarrett
Buck Jarrett is the older brother of Conrad Jarrett in Judith Guest’s novel "Ordinary People," whose death in a boating accident profoundly affects his family.
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C.
Rex Scouten
Rex Scouten was a longtime White House staff member who served multiple presidents in key roles overseeing the executive mansion’s operations and preservation.
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D.
Tom Owens
Tom Owens is a former professional basketball player best known for his time in the ABA and NBA during the 1970s and early 1980s.
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E.
Heck Allen
Heck Allen was an American writer best known for his Western novels and screenplays, often published under the pseudonym Will Henry.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
guitarist
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human ⓘ record producer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 2000s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1970s ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
Prince music videos from early 1980s
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film "Purple Rain" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Desmond D. Dickerson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1955-08-07 ⓘ |
| employer | Prince NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Dickerson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| founded |
Absolute Publicity
NERFINISHED
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Absolute Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
Minneapolis sound
NERFINISHED
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contemporary Christian music ⓘ funk rock ⓘ pop rock ⓘ rock music ⓘ |
| givenName | Desmond NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hairStyle | distinctive mustache and new wave look in early 1980s ⓘ |
| instrument |
guitar
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vocals ⓘ |
| knownFor | being lead guitarist in Prince’s band The Revolution in the early 1980s ⓘ |
| leftBand | The Revolution NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Prince and The Revolution
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Revolution NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Dez Dickerson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
album "A Future to This Life: Robotech – The Movie" soundtrack contributions
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album "Oneman" NERFINISHED ⓘ guitar solo on "Little Red Corvette" ⓘ song "Modernaire" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
guitarist
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record producer ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Prince 1999 Tour
NERFINISHED
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Prince Controversy Tour NERFINISHED ⓘ Prince Dirty Mind Tour NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performedWith |
Prince
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Revolution NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reasonForLeavingBand | pursue Christian faith–oriented career ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Absolute Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| residence | Nashville, Tennessee, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| voiceType | tenor ⓘ |
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 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 early 1980s.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.