Joel Cummins
E575513
Joel Cummins is an American keyboardist best known as a founding member of the progressive rock and jam band Umphrey's McGee.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Joel Cummins canonical | 4 |
| Joel Nathan Cummins | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6009497 — 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: Joel Cummins Context triple: [Umphrey's McGee, hasMember, Joel Cummins]
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A.
Ben Cullum
Ben Cullum is a British musician and producer best known for his work in jazz and pop and for collaborating closely with his brother, singer-pianist Jamie Cullum.
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B.
Joel Reynolds
Joel Reynolds is a fictional protagonist whose story centers on his personal experiences and development within the narrative from which he is drawn.
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C.
Joel Allen
Joel Allen is an American actor best known for his starring role in the television adaptation of the horror franchise "The Purge."
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D.
Joel Graham
Joel Graham is a central character on the television series "Parenthood," portrayed as a devoted husband and father balancing family life with personal and professional challenges.
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E.
Eric McLeod
Eric McLeod is a film producer known for his work on major Hollywood action and genre movies, including the monster crossover blockbuster "Godzilla vs. Kong."
- 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: Joel Cummins Target entity description: Joel Cummins is an American keyboardist best known as a founding member of the progressive rock and jam band Umphrey's McGee.
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A.
Ben Cullum
Ben Cullum is a British musician and producer best known for his work in jazz and pop and for collaborating closely with his brother, singer-pianist Jamie Cullum.
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B.
Joel Reynolds
Joel Reynolds is a fictional protagonist whose story centers on his personal experiences and development within the narrative from which he is drawn.
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C.
Joel Allen
Joel Allen is an American actor best known for his starring role in the television adaptation of the horror franchise "The Purge."
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D.
Joel Graham
Joel Graham is a central character on the television series "Parenthood," portrayed as a devoted husband and father balancing family life with personal and professional challenges.
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E.
Eric McLeod
Eric McLeod is a film producer known for his work on major Hollywood action and genre movies, including the monster crossover blockbuster "Godzilla vs. Kong."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
keyboardist ⓘ musician ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activeIn | music industry ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Digital Tape Machine
ⓘ
OHMphrey ⓘ
linked to:
OHM
Umphrey's McGee ⓘ |
| birthName |
Joel Nathan Cummins
ⓘ
linked to:
Joel Cummins
|
| birthPlace |
La Grange, Illinois, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
La Grange, Illinois
|
| educatedAt | University of Notre Dame ⓘ |
| foundingMemberOf | Umphrey's McGee ⓘ |
| genre |
jam band
ⓘ
progressive rock ⓘ |
| hasRole |
composer
ⓘ
live performer ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being a founding member of Umphrey's McGee
ⓘ
keyboard improvisation in jam band music ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Umphrey's McGee ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Anchor Drops
ⓘ
Mantis ⓘ Similar Skin ⓘ |
| occupation |
keyboardist
ⓘ
musician ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| playsInstrument |
keyboards
ⓘ
piano ⓘ |
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: Joel Cummins Description of subject: Joel Cummins is an American keyboardist best known as a founding member of the progressive rock and jam band Umphrey's McGee.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Joel Cummins