Marc Ford
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Marc Ford is an American rock guitarist best known for his influential work as lead guitarist for The Black Crowes in the 1990s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Marc Ford canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11272261 — 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: Marc Ford Context triple: [The Black Crowes, member, Marc Ford]
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A.
Jim James
Jim James is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist best known as the frontman of the rock band My Morning Jacket.
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B.
Matt Bellamy
Matt Bellamy is the lead vocalist, guitarist, and primary songwriter of the English rock band Muse, known for his virtuosic playing, falsetto vocals, and theatrical, genre-blending compositions.
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C.
Jim McCarty
Jim McCarty is an English musician and songwriter best known as the drummer for the influential 1960s rock band The Yardbirds.
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D.
Mark Morton
Mark Morton was a prominent American industrialist and executive associated with the Morton Salt company and a notable member of the Morton family.
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E.
Tommy Shaw
Tommy Shaw is an American rock musician, singer, and songwriter best known as a longtime guitarist and vocalist for the band Styx.
- 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: Marc Ford Target entity description: Marc Ford is an American rock guitarist best known for his influential work as lead guitarist for The Black Crowes in the 1990s.
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A.
Jim James
Jim James is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist best known as the frontman of the rock band My Morning Jacket.
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B.
Matt Bellamy
Matt Bellamy is the lead vocalist, guitarist, and primary songwriter of the English rock band Muse, known for his virtuosic playing, falsetto vocals, and theatrical, genre-blending compositions.
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C.
Jim McCarty
Jim McCarty is an English musician and songwriter best known as the drummer for the influential 1960s rock band The Yardbirds.
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D.
Mark Morton
Mark Morton was a prominent American industrialist and executive associated with the Morton Salt company and a notable member of the Morton family.
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E.
Tommy Shaw
Tommy Shaw is an American rock musician, singer, and songwriter best known as a longtime guitarist and vocalist for the band Styx.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
guitarist
ⓘ
human ⓘ musician ⓘ rock guitarist ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod |
1990s
ⓘ
2000s ⓘ 2010s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals
ⓘ
linked to:
Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals
Burning Tree ⓘ Gov't Mule ⓘ
linked to:
Gov’t Mule
Magpie Salute ⓘ Marc Ford and the Neptune Blues Club ⓘ The Black Crowes ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| genre |
blues rock
ⓘ
jam band ⓘ rock ⓘ southern rock ⓘ |
| hasPartInDiscography |
albums with The Black Crowes
ⓘ
solo albums ⓘ |
| influencedGenre | 1990s rock guitar sound ⓘ |
| instrument | guitar ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | The Black Crowes ⓘ |
| name | Marc Ford ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor | lead guitarist for The Black Crowes ⓘ |
| notableWork | guitar work on The Black Crowes albums in the 1990s ⓘ |
| occupation |
guitarist
ⓘ
musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ solo artist ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| role | lead guitarist of The Black Crowes ⓘ |
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: Marc Ford Description of subject: Marc Ford is an American rock guitarist best known for his influential work as lead guitarist for The Black Crowes in the 1990s.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.