Larry Carlton
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Larry Carlton is an American jazz, pop, and rock guitarist and session musician renowned for his smooth, melodic style and extensive studio work with major artists and television soundtracks.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Larry Carlton canonical | 62 |
| showcases Larry Carlton’s melodic phrasing | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2458625 — 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: Larry Carlton Context triple: [Hill Street Blues, composer, Larry Carlton]
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A.
Tim Welke
Tim Welke is a former Major League Baseball umpire who served as a longtime crew chief in numerous high-profile games, including the World Series.
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B.
Gary Burton
Gary Burton is an influential American jazz vibraphonist, bandleader, and educator known for pioneering the four-mallet technique and advancing jazz fusion.
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C.
Lyle Mays
Lyle Mays was an American jazz pianist, composer, and longtime collaborator of Pat Metheny, renowned for his sophisticated harmonies and influential work in contemporary jazz.
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D.
John McLaughlin
John McLaughlin is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the psychological thriller film "Black Swan."
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E.
Joe Satriani
Joe Satriani is a highly influential American rock guitarist and instrumental virtuoso known for his technical mastery and melodic compositions.
- 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: Larry Carlton Target entity description: Larry Carlton is an American jazz, pop, and rock guitarist and session musician renowned for his smooth, melodic style and extensive studio work with major artists and television soundtracks.
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A.
Tim Welke
Tim Welke is a former Major League Baseball umpire who served as a longtime crew chief in numerous high-profile games, including the World Series.
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B.
Gary Burton
Gary Burton is an influential American jazz vibraphonist, bandleader, and educator known for pioneering the four-mallet technique and advancing jazz fusion.
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C.
Lyle Mays
Lyle Mays was an American jazz pianist, composer, and longtime collaborator of Pat Metheny, renowned for his sophisticated harmonies and influential work in contemporary jazz.
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D.
John McLaughlin
John McLaughlin is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the psychological thriller film "Black Swan."
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E.
Joe Satriani
Joe Satriani is a highly influential American rock guitarist and instrumental virtuoso known for his technical mastery and melodic compositions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Larry Carlton Description of subject: Larry Carlton is an American jazz, pop, and rock guitarist and session musician renowned for his smooth, melodic style and extensive studio work with major artists and television soundtracks.
Referenced by (63)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Hejira (1976 studio album by Joni Mitchell)
subject linked to:
Don Juan's Reckless Daughter LP