Don Felder
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Don Felder is an American rock guitarist and songwriter best known as a longtime member of the Eagles and co-writer of their iconic song "Hotel California."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Don Felder canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5351987 — 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: Don Felder Context triple: [Eagles, member, Don Felder]
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A.
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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B.
Randy Meisner
Randy Meisner was an American bassist, singer, and songwriter best known as a founding member of the rock band Eagles and for singing lead on their hit "Take It to the Limit."
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C.
Jack Casady
Jack Casady is an American bass guitarist best known as a founding member of Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna, recognized for his innovative, melodic rock bass style.
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D.
Gary Rossington
Gary Rossington was an American guitarist and founding member of the Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, known for co-writing several of their classic songs.
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E.
Gregg Rolie
Gregg Rolie is an American keyboardist and singer best known as a founding member and original lead vocalist of both Santana and Journey.
- 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: Don Felder Target entity description: Don Felder is an American rock guitarist and songwriter best known as a longtime member of the Eagles and co-writer of their iconic song "Hotel California."
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A.
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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B.
Randy Meisner
Randy Meisner was an American bassist, singer, and songwriter best known as a founding member of the rock band Eagles and for singing lead on their hit "Take It to the Limit."
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C.
Jack Casady
Jack Casady is an American bass guitarist best known as a founding member of Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna, recognized for his innovative, melodic rock bass style.
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D.
Gary Rossington
Gary Rossington was an American guitarist and founding member of the Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, known for co-writing several of their classic songs.
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E.
Gregg Rolie
Gregg Rolie is an American keyboardist and singer best known as a founding member and original lead vocalist of both Santana and Journey.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
guitarist
ⓘ
human ⓘ musician ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Crosby, Stills & Nash
NERFINISHED
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Eagles NERFINISHED ⓘ Flow NERFINISHED ⓘ Stephen Stills NERFINISHED ⓘ The Continentals NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| authorOf | Heaven and Hell: My Life in the Eagles (1974–2001) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| coWriterOf |
Already Gone
NERFINISHED
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Heartache Tonight NERFINISHED ⓘ Hotel California NERFINISHED ⓘ I Can't Tell You Why NERFINISHED ⓘ Life in the Fast Lane NERFINISHED ⓘ New Kid in Town NERFINISHED ⓘ One of These Nights NERFINISHED ⓘ The Disco Strangler NERFINISHED ⓘ The Long Run NERFINISHED ⓘ Those Shoes NERFINISHED ⓘ Too Many Hands NERFINISHED ⓘ Victim of Love NERFINISHED ⓘ Visions NERFINISHED ⓘ Witchy Woman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1947-09-21 ⓘ |
| familyName | Felder NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Donald William Felder NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
country rock
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rock music ⓘ soft rock ⓘ |
| givenName | Donald NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| instrument |
guitar
ⓘ
mandolin ⓘ slide guitar ⓘ |
| memberOf | Eagles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableInstrumentUsage | double‑neck Gibson EDS-1275 on Hotel California ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Hotel California
NERFINISHED
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Those Shoes NERFINISHED ⓘ Victim of Love NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
ⓘ
guitarist ⓘ record producer ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Gainesville, Florida, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Asylum Records
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BMG NERFINISHED ⓘ Elektra Records ⓘ |
| residence | California, United States ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1960s–present ⓘ |
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: Don Felder Description of subject: Don Felder is an American rock guitarist and songwriter best known as a longtime member of the Eagles and co-writer of their iconic song "Hotel California."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.