Earl Slick
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Earl Slick is an American rock guitarist best known for his longtime collaborations with David Bowie and John Lennon.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Earl Slick canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5214922 — 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: Earl Slick Context triple: [New York Dolls, member, Earl Slick]
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A.
Mick Ronson
Mick Ronson was an English guitarist, songwriter, and producer best known for his influential work with David Bowie during the glam rock era, particularly as a key member of the Spiders from Mars.
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B.
Keith Richards
Keith Richards is an English guitarist, songwriter, and founding member of The Rolling Stones, renowned for his influential rock riffs and enduring impact on popular music.
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C.
Phil Manzanera
Phil Manzanera is an English guitarist and record producer best known as the lead guitarist of the art rock band Roxy Music and for his extensive collaborations with prominent rock and experimental musicians.
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D.
Steven Van Zandt
Steven Van Zandt is an American musician, songwriter, producer, and actor best known as a longtime guitarist in Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band and for his role as Silvio Dante on the TV series The Sopranos.
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E.
Bill Wyman
Bill Wyman is an English musician best known as the longtime bassist for the Rolling Stones.
- 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: Earl Slick Target entity description: Earl Slick is an American rock guitarist best known for his longtime collaborations with David Bowie and John Lennon.
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A.
Mick Ronson
Mick Ronson was an English guitarist, songwriter, and producer best known for his influential work with David Bowie during the glam rock era, particularly as a key member of the Spiders from Mars.
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B.
Keith Richards
Keith Richards is an English guitarist, songwriter, and founding member of The Rolling Stones, renowned for his influential rock riffs and enduring impact on popular music.
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C.
Phil Manzanera
Phil Manzanera is an English guitarist and record producer best known as the lead guitarist of the art rock band Roxy Music and for his extensive collaborations with prominent rock and experimental musicians.
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D.
Steven Van Zandt
Steven Van Zandt is an American musician, songwriter, producer, and actor best known as a longtime guitarist in Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band and for his role as Silvio Dante on the TV series The Sopranos.
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E.
Bill Wyman
Bill Wyman is an English musician best known as the longtime bassist for the Rolling Stones.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
guitarist
ⓘ
human ⓘ rock musician ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
David Bowie
NERFINISHED
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David Coverdale NERFINISHED ⓘ Dirty White Boy NERFINISHED ⓘ Ian Hunter NERFINISHED ⓘ John Lennon NERFINISHED ⓘ John Waite NERFINISHED ⓘ Little Caesar NERFINISHED ⓘ New York Dolls NERFINISHED ⓘ Phantom, Rocker & Slick NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ Tim Curry NERFINISHED ⓘ Yoko Ono NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Frank Madeloni NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1952-10-01 ⓘ |
| genre |
blues rock
ⓘ
hard rock ⓘ rock ⓘ |
| hasSoloAlbum |
"Fist Full of Devils"
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
"In Your Face" NERFINISHED ⓘ "Razor Sharp" NERFINISHED ⓘ "Zig Zag" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| instrument | guitar ⓘ |
| name | Earl Slick NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
collaborations with David Bowie
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collaborations with John Lennon ⓘ |
| occupation |
guitarist
ⓘ
songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Brooklyn, New York, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordedOn |
John Lennon album "Double Fantasy"
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
John Lennon and Yoko Ono album "Milk and Honey" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordedWith |
John Lennon
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Yoko Ono NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| touredWith |
David Bowie
NERFINISHED
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John Lennon NERFINISHED ⓘ New York Dolls NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedOn |
David Bowie album "Diamond Dogs"
NERFINISHED
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David Bowie album "Reality" NERFINISHED ⓘ David Bowie album "Station to Station" NERFINISHED ⓘ David Bowie album "The Next Day" NERFINISHED ⓘ David Bowie album "Young Americans" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearsActive |
1970s
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1980s ⓘ 1990s ⓘ 2000s ⓘ 2010s ⓘ 2020s ⓘ |
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: Earl Slick Description of subject: Earl Slick is an American rock guitarist best known for his longtime collaborations with David Bowie and John Lennon.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
New York Dolls