Tommy Funderburk
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Tommy Funderburk is an American rock and AOR vocalist and session singer known for his powerful tenor voice and extensive work with numerous artists and bands across the 1980s and 1990s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tommy Funderburk canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5319309 — 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: Tommy Funderburk Context triple: [Tomorrow’s Sounds Today, featuresArtist, Tommy Funderburk]
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A.
Tommy Leach
Tommy Leach was an early 20th-century Major League Baseball third baseman and outfielder best known for his speed, defensive skill, and starring role with the Pittsburgh Pirates, including in the first modern World Series in 1903.
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B.
Tommy Aldridge
Tommy Aldridge is an American hard rock and heavy metal drummer renowned for his powerful double-bass technique and work with bands such as Whitesnake and Ozzy Osbourne.
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C.
Tommy Cogbill
Tommy Cogbill was a renowned American session bassist, producer, and member of the Muscle Shoals and Memphis soul scenes, known for his influential work on numerous classic R&B and soul recordings.
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D.
Tommy Griffin
Tommy Griffin is an American former basketball player and coach best known as the father of NBA star Blake Griffin.
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E.
Tommy Ross
Tommy Ross is a popular high school student in Stephen King’s horror novel "Carrie," known for his pivotal role in inviting Carrie White to the prom.
- 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: Tommy Funderburk Target entity description: Tommy Funderburk is an American rock and AOR vocalist and session singer known for his powerful tenor voice and extensive work with numerous artists and bands across the 1980s and 1990s.
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A.
Tommy Leach
Tommy Leach was an early 20th-century Major League Baseball third baseman and outfielder best known for his speed, defensive skill, and starring role with the Pittsburgh Pirates, including in the first modern World Series in 1903.
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B.
Tommy Aldridge
Tommy Aldridge is an American hard rock and heavy metal drummer renowned for his powerful double-bass technique and work with bands such as Whitesnake and Ozzy Osbourne.
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C.
Tommy Cogbill
Tommy Cogbill was a renowned American session bassist, producer, and member of the Muscle Shoals and Memphis soul scenes, known for his influential work on numerous classic R&B and soul recordings.
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D.
Tommy Griffin
Tommy Griffin is an American former basketball player and coach best known as the father of NBA star Blake Griffin.
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E.
Tommy Ross
Tommy Ross is a popular high school student in Stephen King’s horror novel "Carrie," known for his pivotal role in inviting Carrie White to the prom.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American musician
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human ⓘ rock vocalist ⓘ session musician ⓘ |
| activePeriod |
1980s
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1990s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Airplay
NERFINISHED
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Boston NERFINISHED ⓘ House of Lords NERFINISHED ⓘ John Waite NERFINISHED ⓘ Kenny Loggins NERFINISHED ⓘ King of Hearts NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael McDonald NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard Marx NERFINISHED ⓘ Steve Lukather NERFINISHED ⓘ The Front NERFINISHED ⓘ Toto (session and backing vocals) NERFINISHED ⓘ Venice (backing vocals) NERFINISHED ⓘ Whitesnake NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedIn | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| era | late 20th century popular music ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
live performance
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recording industry ⓘ |
| genre |
AOR
NERFINISHED
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rock ⓘ |
| hasNotableAttribute |
frequent uncredited session appearances
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high-range tenor vocals ⓘ |
| instrument | vocals ⓘ |
| knownFor | extensive session work in Los Angeles music scene ⓘ |
| languageOfPerformance | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Airplay (live and later incarnations)
NERFINISHED
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King of Hearts NERFINISHED ⓘ The Front NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor | session work with numerous rock and AOR artists ⓘ |
| notableWork |
King of Hearts – self‑titled album
NERFINISHED
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The Front – self‑titled album NERFINISHED ⓘ vocals and backing vocals on various AOR albums in the 1980s ⓘ |
| occupation |
session singer
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singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
A&M Records (via projects)
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Frontiers Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| vocalType | tenor ⓘ |
| voiceCharacteristic | powerful tenor voice ⓘ |
| website | https://tommyfunderburk.com/ ⓘ |
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: Tommy Funderburk Description of subject: Tommy Funderburk is an American rock and AOR vocalist and session singer known for his powerful tenor voice and extensive work with numerous artists and bands across the 1980s and 1990s.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.