Joseph Williams
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Joseph Williams is an American singer, songwriter, and composer best known as the lead vocalist of the rock band Toto and the son of famed film composer John Williams.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Joseph Williams canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T946069 — 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: Joseph Williams Context triple: [John Williams, hasChild, Joseph Williams]
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A.
Stedman Graham
Stedman Graham is an American educator, author, businessman, and public speaker best known for his long-term relationship with media mogul Oprah Winfrey.
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B.
Lee Holdridge
Lee Holdridge is an American composer and orchestrator best known for his work on film and television scores, including numerous collaborations with John Denver.
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C.
William Nolan
William Nolan is an editor known for his work on editions of classic adventure literature, including "The Mark of Zorro."
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D.
Joe Ellis
Joe Ellis is an American sports executive best known as the longtime president and CEO of the Denver Broncos in the National Football League.
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E.
Mark T. Williams
Mark T. Williams is the son of renowned American composer and conductor John Williams.
- 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: Joseph Williams Target entity description: Joseph Williams is an American singer, songwriter, and composer best known as the lead vocalist of the rock band Toto and the son of famed film composer John Williams.
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A.
Stedman Graham
Stedman Graham is an American educator, author, businessman, and public speaker best known for his long-term relationship with media mogul Oprah Winfrey.
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B.
Lee Holdridge
Lee Holdridge is an American composer and orchestrator best known for his work on film and television scores, including numerous collaborations with John Denver.
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C.
William Nolan
William Nolan is an editor known for his work on editions of classic adventure literature, including "The Mark of Zorro."
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D.
Joe Ellis
Joe Ellis is an American sports executive best known as the longtime president and CEO of the Denver Broncos in the National Football League.
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E.
Mark T. Williams
Mark T. Williams is the son of renowned American composer and conductor John Williams.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
composer
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human ⓘ rock singer ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1960-09-01 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Santa Monica
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surface form:
Santa Monica, California, United States
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| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| endTimeAsMemberOfToto | 1988 ⓘ |
| familyName | Williams ⓘ |
| father | John Williams ⓘ |
| genre |
AOR
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pop rock ⓘ rock music ⓘ soft rock ⓘ |
| givenName | Joseph ⓘ |
| hasGenreAsSoloArtist |
West Coast AOR
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adult contemporary ⓘ |
| hasPartIn |
recording of song "Fahrenheit" by Toto
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recording of song "I'll Be Over You" by Toto (background vocals) ⓘ recording of song "Pamela" by Toto ⓘ recording of song "Stop Loving You" by Toto ⓘ recording of song "Till the End" by Toto ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Toto ⓘ |
| mother | Barbara Ruick ⓘ |
| name | Joseph Williams self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor |
lead vocalist of Toto in the mid-1980s
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returning as Toto lead vocalist in the 2010s ⓘ |
| notableWork |
lead vocals for Toto album "Fahrenheit"
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lead vocals for Toto album "Old Is New" ⓘ lead vocals for Toto album "The Seventh One" ⓘ lead vocals for Toto album "Toto XIV" ⓘ solo album "Denizen Tenant" ⓘ solo album "Early Years" ⓘ solo album "I Am Alive" ⓘ solo album "Joseph Williams" ⓘ solo album "Smiles" ⓘ solo album "This Fall" ⓘ solo album "Two of Us" ⓘ |
| occupation |
composer
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singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| relative |
Johnny Williams
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Mark Towner Williams ⓘ |
| returnToBand | 2010 ⓘ |
| startTimeAsMemberOfToto | 1986 ⓘ |
| voiceType | tenor ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Los Angeles, California, United States of America
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surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
|
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: Joseph Williams Description of subject: Joseph Williams is an American singer, songwriter, and composer best known as the lead vocalist of the rock band Toto and the son of famed film composer John Williams.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Hakuna Matata