Seems to me a lot of this discussion would be avoided by adding the following to search results:
- area, if set
- years of birth/death, if set
- any targets of a member-of AR (if more than 3, perhaps those with the most releases?)
- if a certain threshold of oerformance ARs us reached: the most common instrument(s) (counting vocals as an instrument) (requiring at least N such ARs, and again as a top 3) (*)
- if a certain threshold of technical ARs is reached: most common of those (mixer, recording engineer)
That would likely remove the need for many disambigs (like “UK flautist” or “bassist for Some Band”).
In addition, for all of these, localised versions can be produced. This could probably all be done at indexing time too.
(*) can get tricky. Would be even better if this could aggregate things, like showing woodwind for someone playing multiple woodwind instruments.