Rob Wasserman
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Rob Wasserman was an American Grammy-winning bassist and composer known for his innovative solo work and collaborations with artists such as Bob Weir, Lou Reed, and Elvis Costello.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Rob Wasserman canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5921474 — 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: Rob Wasserman Context triple: [RatDog, hasFormerMember, Rob Wasserman]
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A.
Robert Weinbach
Robert Weinbach is a film producer known for his work on independent genre movies, including the 2012 horror film "Shiver."
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B.
Mark Rosenthal
Mark Rosenthal is an American screenwriter known for co-writing major Hollywood films, including contributing to the story for "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country."
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C.
Lee Weiner
Lee Weiner is an American political activist best known as one of the Chicago Seven defendants charged with conspiracy and inciting riots during the 1968 Democratic National Convention protests.
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D.
Larry Brezner
Larry Brezner was an American film producer and talent manager known for producing popular comedies such as "Good Morning, Vietnam," "The 'Burbs," and "Ride Along."
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E.
Howard Lasnik
Howard Lasnik is a prominent American linguist known for his influential work in generative syntax and his close collaboration with Noam Chomsky in developing contemporary syntactic theory.
- 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: Rob Wasserman Target entity description: Rob Wasserman was an American Grammy-winning bassist and composer known for his innovative solo work and collaborations with artists such as Bob Weir, Lou Reed, and Elvis Costello.
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A.
Robert Weinbach
Robert Weinbach is a film producer known for his work on independent genre movies, including the 2012 horror film "Shiver."
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B.
Mark Rosenthal
Mark Rosenthal is an American screenwriter known for co-writing major Hollywood films, including contributing to the story for "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country."
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C.
Lee Weiner
Lee Weiner is an American political activist best known as one of the Chicago Seven defendants charged with conspiracy and inciting riots during the 1968 Democratic National Convention protests.
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D.
Larry Brezner
Larry Brezner was an American film producer and talent manager known for producing popular comedies such as "Good Morning, Vietnam," "The 'Burbs," and "Ride Along."
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E.
Howard Lasnik
Howard Lasnik is a prominent American linguist known for his influential work in generative syntax and his close collaboration with Noam Chomsky in developing contemporary syntactic theory.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bassist
ⓘ
composer ⓘ human ⓘ recording artist ⓘ |
| activeIn |
early 21st century
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late 20th century ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Bob Weir
NERFINISHED
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Elvis Costello NERFINISHED ⓘ Grateful Dead members ⓘ Lou Reed NERFINISHED ⓘ Rickie Lee Jones NERFINISHED ⓘ Van Morrison NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Grammy Award ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
Aaron Neville
NERFINISHED
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Bob Weir NERFINISHED ⓘ Bobby McFerrin NERFINISHED ⓘ Elvis Costello NERFINISHED ⓘ Jerry Garcia NERFINISHED ⓘ Lou Reed NERFINISHED ⓘ Neil Young NERFINISHED ⓘ Rickie Lee Jones NERFINISHED ⓘ Van Morrison NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Wasserman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
Americana
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folk rock ⓘ jazz ⓘ rock music ⓘ |
| givenName | Rob NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| instrument |
bass
ⓘ
double bass ⓘ |
| knownFor |
expansive use of the bass as a lead instrument
ⓘ
genre-crossing collaborations ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Bob Weir & RatDog NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Rob Wasserman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | won a Grammy Award for Best New Age Performance for the album "Duets" ⓘ |
| notableFor |
collaborations with prominent rock and folk artists
ⓘ
innovative solo bass work ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Duets
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Solo NERFINISHED ⓘ Space Island NERFINISHED ⓘ Trios ⓘ |
| occupation |
bassist
ⓘ
composer ⓘ record producer ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
GRP Records
NERFINISHED
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MCA Records ⓘ Rounder Records 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: Rob Wasserman Description of subject: Rob Wasserman was an American Grammy-winning bassist and composer known for his innovative solo work and collaborations with artists such as Bob Weir, Lou Reed, and Elvis Costello.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.