Jerry Harrison
E500091
Jerry Harrison is an American musician, songwriter, and producer best known as the keyboardist and guitarist for the influential new wave band Talking Heads.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jerry Harrison canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5144592 — 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: Jerry Harrison Context triple: [Talking Heads, member, Jerry Harrison]
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A.
Gene Wolfe
Gene Wolfe was an American science fiction and fantasy author renowned for his dense, allusive prose and the critically acclaimed series "The Book of the New Sun."
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B.
Gene Reynolds
Gene Reynolds was an American actor and Emmy-winning television producer and director, best known for co-creating and producing the acclaimed TV series M*A*S*H.
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C.
Tharon Musser
Tharon Musser was a pioneering American lighting designer renowned for revolutionizing Broadway lighting with her innovative use of computerized systems on landmark productions.
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D.
Rand Brooks
Rand Brooks was an American film and television actor best known for his roles in classic Hollywood productions such as "Gone with the Wind" and numerous Westerns.
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E.
Glen Cook
Glen Cook was a prominent early Pentecostal leader and evangelist associated with the Azusa Street Revival in Los Angeles in the early 20th century.
- 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: Jerry Harrison Target entity description: Jerry Harrison is an American musician, songwriter, and producer best known as the keyboardist and guitarist for the influential new wave band Talking Heads.
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A.
Gene Wolfe
Gene Wolfe was an American science fiction and fantasy author renowned for his dense, allusive prose and the critically acclaimed series "The Book of the New Sun."
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B.
Gene Reynolds
Gene Reynolds was an American actor and Emmy-winning television producer and director, best known for co-creating and producing the acclaimed TV series M*A*S*H.
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C.
Tharon Musser
Tharon Musser was a pioneering American lighting designer renowned for revolutionizing Broadway lighting with her innovative use of computerized systems on landmark productions.
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D.
Rand Brooks
Rand Brooks was an American film and television actor best known for his roles in classic Hollywood productions such as "Gone with the Wind" and numerous Westerns.
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E.
Glen Cook
Glen Cook was a prominent early Pentecostal leader and evangelist associated with the Azusa Street Revival in Los Angeles in the early 20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
guitarist
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human ⓘ keyboardist ⓘ musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1960s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Casual Gods
NERFINISHED
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Talking Heads NERFINISHED ⓘ The Modern Lovers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1949-02-21 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Harvard University ⓘ |
| familyName | Harrison NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
art rock
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new wave ⓘ post-punk ⓘ rock ⓘ |
| givenName | Jeremiah NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| instrument |
guitar
ⓘ
keyboards ⓘ organ ⓘ piano ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Talking Heads
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Modern Lovers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Jerry Harrison NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableRole |
guitarist for Talking Heads
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keyboardist for Talking Heads ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Casual Gods (solo album)
NERFINISHED
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Fear of Music NERFINISHED ⓘ Little Creatures NERFINISHED ⓘ More Songs About Buildings and Food NERFINISHED ⓘ Naked NERFINISHED ⓘ Remain in Light NERFINISHED ⓘ Speaking in Tongues NERFINISHED ⓘ Talking Heads: 77 NERFINISHED ⓘ The Modern Lovers (album) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Red and the Black (solo album) NERFINISHED ⓘ True Stories NERFINISHED ⓘ Walk on Water (solo album) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
guitarist
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keyboardist ⓘ musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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: Jerry Harrison Description of subject: Jerry Harrison is an American musician, songwriter, and producer best known as the keyboardist and guitarist for the influential new wave band Talking Heads.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.