Tom Fogerty
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Tom Fogerty was an American rock guitarist and singer best known as the rhythm guitarist and founding member of Creedence Clearwater Revival.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tom Fogerty canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5364413 — 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: Tom Fogerty Context triple: [Creedence Clearwater Revival, member, Tom Fogerty]
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A.
John Fogerty
John Fogerty is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist best known as the lead vocalist and primary songwriter of the rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival.
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B.
Tom Rapp
Tom Rapp was an American singer-songwriter and key figure in the 1960s psychedelic folk scene, best known for his work with the band Pearls Before Swine.
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C.
Joe Walsh
Joe Walsh is an American rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter best known for his work with the Eagles and his successful solo career.
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D.
Peter Frampton
Peter Frampton is an English rock musician, singer, songwriter, and guitarist best known for his massively successful live album "Frampton Comes Alive!" and his virtuosic guitar work.
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E.
Richie Furay
Richie Furay is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist best known as a founding member of the influential country rock band Poco and for his role in pioneering the country rock genre.
- 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: Tom Fogerty Target entity description: Tom Fogerty was an American rock guitarist and singer best known as the rhythm guitarist and founding member of Creedence Clearwater Revival.
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A.
John Fogerty
John Fogerty is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist best known as the lead vocalist and primary songwriter of the rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival.
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B.
Tom Rapp
Tom Rapp was an American singer-songwriter and key figure in the 1960s psychedelic folk scene, best known for his work with the band Pearls Before Swine.
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C.
Joe Walsh
Joe Walsh is an American rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter best known for his work with the Eagles and his successful solo career.
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D.
Peter Frampton
Peter Frampton is an English rock musician, singer, songwriter, and guitarist best known for his massively successful live album "Frampton Comes Alive!" and his virtuosic guitar work.
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E.
Richie Furay
Richie Furay is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist best known as a founding member of the influential country rock band Poco and for his role in pioneering the country rock genre.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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musician ⓘ rock guitarist ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1990 ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1950s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Creedence Clearwater Revival
NERFINISHED
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Jerry Garcia NERFINISHED ⓘ Merl Saunders NERFINISHED ⓘ Ruby (Tom Fogerty's band) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Thomas Richard Fogerty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Mount Saint Mary Cemetery, Oakland, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | tuberculosis ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1941-11-09 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1990-09-06 ⓘ |
| education | El Cerrito High School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Irish-American descent ⓘ |
| familyName | Fogerty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formedBand |
The Blue Velvets
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tommy Fogerty and the Blue Velvets NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
rock
ⓘ
roots rock ⓘ swamp rock ⓘ |
| givenName | Thomas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| instrument |
guitar
ⓘ
vocals ⓘ |
| memberOf | Creedence Clearwater Revival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Tom Fogerty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAlbum |
Deal It Out (1981 album)
NERFINISHED
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Excalibur (1972 album) NERFINISHED ⓘ Myopia (1974 album) NERFINISHED ⓘ Tom Fogerty (1972 album) NERFINISHED ⓘ Zephyr National (1974 album) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableSong | Goodbye Media Man NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | Creedence Clearwater Revival (band) recordings NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 4 ⓘ |
| occupation |
guitarist
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singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Berkeley, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Scottsdale, Arizona, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Fantasy Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | El Cerrito, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| role |
founding member of Creedence Clearwater Revival
ⓘ
rhythm guitarist of Creedence Clearwater Revival ⓘ |
| sibling | John Fogerty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Patricia Suzanne Clapper NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Tom Fogerty Description of subject: Tom Fogerty was an American rock guitarist and singer best known as the rhythm guitarist and founding member of Creedence Clearwater Revival.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.