Lonnie Simmons
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Lonnie Simmons is an American music producer and songwriter best known for his influential work in funk and R&B, particularly with The Gap Band.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lonnie Simmons canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13072659 — 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: Lonnie Simmons Context triple: [Uptown Funk, writer, Lonnie Simmons]
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A.
Lonnie Lynn
Lonnie Lynn was an American jazz musician and poet best known as the father of rapper Common and for his spoken-word appearances on his son's albums.
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B.
Lonnie Fuller
Lonnie Fuller is an individual notable enough to be specifically recognized as a bearer of the surname Fuller.
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C.
Roy Hinson
Roy Hinson is a former American professional basketball player and standout forward from Rutgers University who played several seasons in the NBA during the 1980s.
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D.
Lonnie Wilson
Lonnie Wilson is an American country music songwriter and drummer known for co-writing several hit songs for major country artists.
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E.
Lonnie E. Smith
Lonnie E. Smith was an African American voter whose challenge to racially discriminatory primary elections led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in Smith v. Allwright (1944), which struck down white-only primaries.
- 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: Lonnie Simmons Target entity description: Lonnie Simmons is an American music producer and songwriter best known for his influential work in funk and R&B, particularly with The Gap Band.
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A.
Lonnie Lynn
Lonnie Lynn was an American jazz musician and poet best known as the father of rapper Common and for his spoken-word appearances on his son's albums.
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B.
Lonnie Fuller
Lonnie Fuller is an individual notable enough to be specifically recognized as a bearer of the surname Fuller.
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C.
Roy Hinson
Roy Hinson is a former American professional basketball player and standout forward from Rutgers University who played several seasons in the NBA during the 1980s.
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D.
Lonnie Wilson
Lonnie Wilson is an American country music songwriter and drummer known for co-writing several hit songs for major country artists.
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E.
Lonnie E. Smith
Lonnie E. Smith was an African American voter whose challenge to racially discriminatory primary elections led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in Smith v. Allwright (1944), which struck down white-only primaries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
businessperson
ⓘ
human ⓘ record producer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod |
1970s
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1980s ⓘ 1990s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
The Gap Band
NERFINISHED
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Total Experience Records artists NERFINISHED ⓘ Yarbrough & Peoples NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
artist development
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music production ⓘ songwriting ⓘ |
| founded |
Total Experience Productions
NERFINISHED
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Total Experience Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
R&B
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funk ⓘ soul ⓘ |
| industry | music industry ⓘ |
| influencedGenre |
G-funk
NERFINISHED
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contemporary R&B ⓘ |
| knownFor |
influential funk and R&B productions
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work with The Gap Band ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
building Total Experience into a successful R&B label
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developing the signature sound of The Gap Band ⓘ |
| notableSongWritten |
Burn Rubber on Me (Why You Wanna Hurt Me)
NERFINISHED
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Early in the Morning NERFINISHED ⓘ Oops Up Side Your Head NERFINISHED ⓘ Outstanding NERFINISHED ⓘ Yearning for Your Love NERFINISHED ⓘ You Dropped a Bomb on Me NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
founding Total Experience Records
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production work with The Gap Band ⓘ songwriting for The Gap Band ⓘ |
| occupation |
music producer
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record executive ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Los Angeles
NERFINISHED
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Oklahoma NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Mercury Records
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PolyGram NERFINISHED ⓘ Total Experience Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedWith |
Charlie Wilson
NERFINISHED
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The Gap Band NERFINISHED ⓘ Yarbrough & Peoples NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Lonnie Simmons Description of subject: Lonnie Simmons is an American music producer and songwriter best known for his influential work in funk and R&B, particularly with The Gap Band.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.