Richie Sambora
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Richie Sambora is an American rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter best known as the longtime lead guitarist and co-songwriter for the band Bon Jovi.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Richie Sambora canonical | 49 |
| Richard Stephen Sambora | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1921835 — 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: Richie Sambora Context triple: [Bon Jovi, member, Richie Sambora]
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A.
Gavin Rossdale
Gavin Rossdale is a British musician best known as the lead singer and guitarist of the rock band Bush.
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B.
Brian Kennedy
Brian Kennedy is a music producer best known for his work on various R&B and pop projects, including albums like "Human."
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C.
Tony Bongiovi
Tony Bongiovi is an American record producer and recording engineer best known for his work with artists like Aerosmith, Talking Heads, and for co-founding New York’s Power Station studio.
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D.
Don Henley
Don Henley is an American singer-songwriter and drummer best known as a founding member of the Eagles and for his successful solo career with hits like "The Boys of Summer."
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E.
Benmont Tench
Benmont Tench is an American keyboardist and songwriter best known as a founding member of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and a prolific session musician for numerous rock and Americana artists.
- 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: Richie Sambora Target entity description: Richie Sambora is an American rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter best known as the longtime lead guitarist and co-songwriter for the band Bon Jovi.
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A.
Gavin Rossdale
Gavin Rossdale is a British musician best known as the lead singer and guitarist of the rock band Bush.
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B.
Brian Kennedy
Brian Kennedy is a music producer best known for his work on various R&B and pop projects, including albums like "Human."
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C.
Tony Bongiovi
Tony Bongiovi is an American record producer and recording engineer best known for his work with artists like Aerosmith, Talking Heads, and for co-founding New York’s Power Station studio.
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D.
Don Henley
Don Henley is an American singer-songwriter and drummer best known as a founding member of the Eagles and for his successful solo career with hits like "The Boys of Summer."
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E.
Benmont Tench
Benmont Tench is an American keyboardist and songwriter best known as a founding member of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and a prolific session musician for numerous rock and Americana artists.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (57)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
guitarist
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human ⓘ rock musician ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction with Bon Jovi ⓘ |
| child | Ava Elizabeth Sambora ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1959-07-11 ⓘ |
| endTime |
2007 (divorce from Heather Locklear)
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2013 (Bon Jovi touring and recording) ⓘ |
| familyName | Sambora ⓘ |
| fullName |
Richie Sambora
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Richard Stephen Sambora
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| genre |
glam metal
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hard rock ⓘ rock ⓘ |
| givenName | Richard ⓘ |
| hasPartIn |
Bon Jovi album Bounce
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Bon Jovi album Crush ⓘ Bon Jovi ⓘ
surface form:
Bon Jovi album Have a Nice Day
Bon Jovi album Keep the Faith ⓘ Bon Jovi album Lost Highway ⓘ Bon Jovi album New Jersey ⓘ Bon Jovi album Slippery When Wet ⓘ Bon Jovi album The Circle ⓘ Bon Jovi – These Days (selected tracks) ⓘ
surface form:
Bon Jovi album These Days
What About Now ⓘ
surface form:
Bon Jovi album What About Now
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| instrument |
guitar
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talk box ⓘ vocals ⓘ |
| memberOf | Bon Jovi ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Aftermath of the Lowdown
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Crush ⓘ Have a Nice Day ⓘ It's My Life ⓘ
surface form:
It’s My Life
Keep the Faith ⓘ Livin' on a Prayer ⓘ
surface form:
Livin’ on a Prayer
New Jersey, United States ⓘ
surface form:
New Jersey
Slippery When Wet ⓘ Stranger in This Town ⓘ These Days ⓘ Undiscovered Soul ⓘ Wanted Dead or Alive ⓘ You Give Love a Bad Name ⓘ co-writing Bon Jovi songs with Jon Bon Jovi ⓘ |
| occupation |
guitarist
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record producer ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Perth Amboy
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surface form:
Perth Amboy, New Jersey, United States
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| pointInTime | 2018 (Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction) ⓘ |
| positionHeld | lead guitarist of Bon Jovi ⓘ |
| residence | New Jersey, United States ⓘ |
| spouse | Heather Locklear ⓘ |
| startTime |
1983 (Bon Jovi membership)
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1994 (marriage to Heather Locklear) ⓘ |
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: Richie Sambora Description of subject: Richie Sambora is an American rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter best known as the longtime lead guitarist and co-songwriter for the band Bon Jovi.
Referenced by (51)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Richard Stephen Sambora