Larry Graham
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Larry Graham is an American bassist, singer, and songwriter best known for pioneering the slap bass technique and for his work with Sly and the Family Stone and his own band Graham Central Station.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Larry Graham canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3132459 — 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 Graham Context triple: [NPG Records, notableArtist, Larry Graham]
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A.
Don Maynard
Don Maynard was a Hall of Fame American football wide receiver best known as Joe Namath’s primary deep threat and a key offensive star for the New York Jets during the 1960s.
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B.
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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C.
Tom Bell
Tom Bell was an American football official best known for serving as the referee in Super Bowl III.
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D.
Gary Puckett
Gary Puckett is an American pop singer best known as the lead vocalist of Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, a band popular in the late 1960s for hits like "Young Girl."
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E.
Gregory Martin
Gregory Martin was a 16th-century English Catholic scholar and priest best known for producing the first complete English translation of the Bible from the Latin Vulgate, which became the Douay–Rheims Bible.
- 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 Graham Target entity description: Larry Graham is an American bassist, singer, and songwriter best known for pioneering the slap bass technique and for his work with Sly and the Family Stone and his own band Graham Central Station.
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A.
Don Maynard
Don Maynard was a Hall of Fame American football wide receiver best known as Joe Namath’s primary deep threat and a key offensive star for the New York Jets during the 1960s.
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B.
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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C.
Tom Bell
Tom Bell was an American football official best known for serving as the referee in Super Bowl III.
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D.
Gary Puckett
Gary Puckett is an American pop singer best known as the lead vocalist of Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, a band popular in the late 1960s for hits like "Young Girl."
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E.
Gregory Martin
Gregory Martin was a 16th-century English Catholic scholar and priest best known for producing the first complete English translation of the Bible from the Latin Vulgate, which became the Douay–Rheims Bible.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bassist
ⓘ
human ⓘ record producer ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1960s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Graham Central Station
ⓘ
Prince ⓘ Sly & the Family Stone ⓘ
surface form:
Sly and the Family Stone
|
| awardReceived |
Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award
ⓘ
surface form:
Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (with Sly and the Family Stone)
|
| birthName | Lawrence Graham ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1946-08-14 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | African-American ⓘ |
| familyName | Graham ⓘ |
| founderOf | Graham Central Station ⓘ |
| genre |
R&B
ⓘ
funk ⓘ psychedelic soul ⓘ soul ⓘ |
| givenName | Lawrence ⓘ |
| influenced |
Bootsy Collins
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Marcus Miller ⓘ Victor Wooten ⓘ slap bass playing in funk music ⓘ |
| instrument |
bass guitar
ⓘ
vocals ⓘ |
| knownFor |
founding Graham Central Station
ⓘ
work with Sly and the Family Stone ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Sly & the Family Stone
ⓘ
surface form:
Sly and the Family Stone
|
| movement | funk music ⓘ |
| name | Larry Graham self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor | pioneering the slap bass technique ⓘ |
| notableRole |
bassist for Sly and the Family Stone
ⓘ
leader of Graham Central Station ⓘ |
| notableWork |
album "Graham Central Station"
ⓘ
album "Release Yourself" ⓘ song "One in a Million You" ⓘ |
| occupation |
bassist
ⓘ
musician ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Beaumont, Texas
ⓘ
surface form:
Beaumont, Texas, United States
|
| religion |
JehovahsWitnesses
ⓘ
surface form:
Jehovah's Witnesses
|
| residence |
Minneapolis
ⓘ
surface form:
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
|
| spouse | Tina Graham ⓘ |
| voiceType | baritone ⓘ |
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 Graham Description of subject: Larry Graham is an American bassist, singer, and songwriter best known for pioneering the slap bass technique and for his work with Sly and the Family Stone and his own band Graham Central Station.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.