Bobby Blotzer
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Bobby Blotzer is an American drummer best known as the longtime percussionist for the glam metal band Ratt.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bobby Blotzer canonical | 24 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6738893 — 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: Bobby Blotzer Context triple: [Ratt, member, Bobby Blotzer]
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A.
Ted Berman
Ted Berman was an American animator and film director best known for his work at Walt Disney Productions during the studio’s classic and transitional eras.
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B.
Larry Bock
Larry Bock is a film editor best known for his work on the 1990 cult drama "Pump Up the Volume."
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C.
Larry Bock
Larry Bock was an American entrepreneur and venture capitalist best known for founding and backing numerous successful biotechnology companies.
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D.
Mitch Kertzman
Mitch Kertzman is an American technology executive and entrepreneur best known for his leadership roles in the software and semiconductor industries, including at companies like LSI Logic and Sybase.
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E.
Ben Karlin
Ben Karlin is an American television writer and producer best known for his work on The Daily Show and The Colbert Report.
- 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: Bobby Blotzer Target entity description: Bobby Blotzer is an American drummer best known as the longtime percussionist for the glam metal band Ratt.
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A.
Ted Berman
Ted Berman was an American animator and film director best known for his work at Walt Disney Productions during the studio’s classic and transitional eras.
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B.
Larry Bock
Larry Bock is a film editor best known for his work on the 1990 cult drama "Pump Up the Volume."
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C.
Larry Bock
Larry Bock was an American entrepreneur and venture capitalist best known for founding and backing numerous successful biotechnology companies.
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D.
Mitch Kertzman
Mitch Kertzman is an American technology executive and entrepreneur best known for his leadership roles in the software and semiconductor industries, including at companies like LSI Logic and Sybase.
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E.
Ben Karlin
Ben Karlin is an American television writer and producer best known for his work on The Daily Show and The Colbert Report.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
drummer
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human ⓘ musician ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1970s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Contraband
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Phucket ⓘ Ratt ⓘ Saints of the Underground ⓘ Twenty 4 Seven ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1958-10-22 ⓘ |
| birthName | Robert John Blotzer ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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linked to:
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
|
| genre |
glam metal
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hard rock ⓘ heavy metal ⓘ |
| hasWritten | Tales of A Ratt: Things You Shouldn't Know ⓘ |
| instrument | drums ⓘ |
| legalDispute | involved in trademark dispute over the name Ratt ⓘ |
| memberOf | Ratt ⓘ |
| name | Bobby Blotzer ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableRole | longtime percussionist for Ratt ⓘ |
| notableWork | drummer for Ratt ⓘ |
| occupation |
drummer
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musician ⓘ |
| playedOn |
Dancing Undercover
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Detonator ⓘ Invasion of Your Privacy ⓘ Out of the Cellar ⓘ Ratt (1999 album) ⓘ Reach for the Sky ⓘ |
| residence | California, United States ⓘ |
| role | band leader of Bobby Blotzer's Ratt Experience ⓘ |
| spouse | Melody Blotzer ⓘ |
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: Bobby Blotzer Description of subject: Bobby Blotzer is an American drummer best known as the longtime percussionist for the glam metal band Ratt.
Referenced by (24)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.