Gail Ann Dorsey
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Gail Ann Dorsey is an American bassist and vocalist best known for her long-time collaboration with David Bowie and work with artists across rock, pop, and alternative music.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gail Ann Dorsey canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10008271 — 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: Gail Ann Dorsey Context triple: [I Am Easy to Find, guestVocalist, Gail Ann Dorsey]
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A.
Dawn Robinson
Dawn Robinson is an American R&B and soul singer best known as a former member of En Vogue and later as a vocalist in the supergroup Lucy Pearl.
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B.
Dina Powell
Dina Powell is an American business executive and former government official who served in senior roles in the Trump administration, including as a top national security and foreign policy adviser.
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C.
Shari Headley
Shari Headley is an American actress best known for her role as Lisa McDowell in the classic comedy film "Coming to America."
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D.
Diane Bemus
Diane Bemus is an individual whose birth name is Diane Bemus and who is also known as Diane Bemus Patrick.
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E.
Ronee Blakley
Ronee Blakley is an American actress and singer-songwriter best known for her acclaimed role in Robert Altman’s film "Nashville" and her work in music and film during the 1970s.
- 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: Gail Ann Dorsey Target entity description: Gail Ann Dorsey is an American bassist and vocalist best known for her long-time collaboration with David Bowie and work with artists across rock, pop, and alternative music.
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A.
Dawn Robinson
Dawn Robinson is an American R&B and soul singer best known as a former member of En Vogue and later as a vocalist in the supergroup Lucy Pearl.
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B.
Dina Powell
Dina Powell is an American business executive and former government official who served in senior roles in the Trump administration, including as a top national security and foreign policy adviser.
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C.
Shari Headley
Shari Headley is an American actress best known for her role as Lisa McDowell in the classic comedy film "Coming to America."
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D.
Diane Bemus
Diane Bemus is an individual whose birth name is Diane Bemus and who is also known as Diane Bemus Patrick.
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E.
Ronee Blakley
Ronee Blakley is an American actress and singer-songwriter best known for her acclaimed role in Robert Altman’s film "Nashville" and her work in music and film during the 1970s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bassist
ⓘ
human ⓘ songwriter ⓘ vocalist ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1980s ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Bryan Ferry
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dar Williams NERFINISHED ⓘ David Bowie NERFINISHED ⓘ Gang of Four NERFINISHED ⓘ Lenny Kravitz NERFINISHED ⓘ Seal NERFINISHED ⓘ Tears for Fears NERFINISHED ⓘ The Indigo Girls NERFINISHED ⓘ The National NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1962-11-20 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Black Americans
ⓘ
surface form:
African American
|
| familyName | Dorsey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
live performance
ⓘ
popular music ⓘ |
| genre |
alternative rock
ⓘ
pop music ⓘ rock music ⓘ |
| givenName | Gail NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDiscographyEntry |
I Used to Be
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Rude Blue NERFINISHED ⓘ The Corporate World NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| instrument |
bass guitar
ⓘ
vocals ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Gail Ann Dorsey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | long-time bassist for David Bowie’s touring band ⓘ |
| notableWork |
album I Used to Be
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album Rude Blue ⓘ album The Corporate World ⓘ collaboration with David Bowie ⓘ touring with David Bowie ⓘ |
| occupation |
bassist
ⓘ
musician ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| performedOn |
David Bowie live performances
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
David Bowie studio recordings NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Pennsylvania
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Philadelphia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
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: Gail Ann Dorsey Description of subject: Gail Ann Dorsey is an American bassist and vocalist best known for her long-time collaboration with David Bowie and work with artists across rock, pop, and alternative music.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
I Am Easy to Find