Nels Cline
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Nels Cline is an American guitarist and composer best known as the lead guitarist for the band Wilco and for his adventurous work in jazz, rock, and experimental music.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nels Cline canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9083818 — 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: Nels Cline Context triple: [Ron Saint Germain, notableWorkWith, Nels Cline]
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A.
Dave Navarro
Dave Navarro is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter best known for his work with the rock band Jane's Addiction and a stint with the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
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B.
Chris Shiflett
Chris Shiflett is an American guitarist best known as a longtime member of the rock band Foo Fighters and for his work in various punk and alt-country projects.
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C.
Trevor Rabin
Trevor Rabin is a South African musician and composer best known as the former guitarist of the rock band Yes and as a prolific film score composer.
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D.
Robby Krieger
Robby Krieger is an American guitarist and songwriter best known as the lead guitarist of the rock band The Doors, contributing iconic riffs and compositions to many of their classic songs.
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E.
Joey Santiago
Joey Santiago is an American guitarist best known as the lead guitarist and co-founder of the influential alternative rock band Pixies.
- 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: Nels Cline Target entity description: Nels Cline is an American guitarist and composer best known as the lead guitarist for the band Wilco and for his adventurous work in jazz, rock, and experimental music.
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A.
Dave Navarro
Dave Navarro is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter best known for his work with the rock band Jane's Addiction and a stint with the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
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B.
Chris Shiflett
Chris Shiflett is an American guitarist best known as a longtime member of the rock band Foo Fighters and for his work in various punk and alt-country projects.
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C.
Trevor Rabin
Trevor Rabin is a South African musician and composer best known as the former guitarist of the rock band Yes and as a prolific film score composer.
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D.
Robby Krieger
Robby Krieger is an American guitarist and songwriter best known as the lead guitarist of the rock band The Doors, contributing iconic riffs and compositions to many of their classic songs.
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E.
Joey Santiago
Joey Santiago is an American guitarist best known as the lead guitarist and co-founder of the influential alternative rock band Pixies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
composer
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guitarist ⓘ human ⓘ recording artist ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1970s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Geraldine Fibbers
NERFINISHED
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Mike Watt + The Secondmen NERFINISHED ⓘ Nels Cline Singers NERFINISHED ⓘ The Nels Cline Singers NERFINISHED ⓘ The Nels Cline Trio NERFINISHED ⓘ Wilco NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
Greg Bendian
NERFINISHED
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Mike Watt NERFINISHED ⓘ Scott Amendola NERFINISHED ⓘ Thurston Moore NERFINISHED ⓘ Tim Berne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1956-01-04 ⓘ |
| familyName | Cline NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
avant-garde jazz
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experimental music ⓘ improvised music ⓘ jazz ⓘ rock ⓘ |
| givenName | Nels NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Bill Frisell
NERFINISHED
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Derek Bailey NERFINISHED ⓘ Jimi Hendrix NERFINISHED ⓘ John Coltrane NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| instrument |
acoustic guitar
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electric guitar ⓘ lap steel guitar ⓘ |
| knownFor |
adventurous guitar work in jazz, rock, and experimental music
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lead guitarist for Wilco ⓘ |
| memberOf | Wilco NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Nels Cline NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAlbum |
Coward
NERFINISHED
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Lovers NERFINISHED ⓘ Nels Cline Trio – Silencer NERFINISHED ⓘ The Nels Cline Singers – Instrumentals NERFINISHED ⓘ The Nels Cline Singers – The Giant Pin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | lead guitarist of Wilco ⓘ |
| occupation |
band member
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composer ⓘ guitarist ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Los Angeles, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Blue Note Records
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Cryptogramophone NERFINISHED ⓘ Mack Avenue Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| sibling | Alex Cline NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Yuka Honda NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startTimeInBand | 2004 ⓘ |
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: Nels Cline Description of subject: Nels Cline is an American guitarist and composer best known as the lead guitarist for the band Wilco and for his adventurous work in jazz, rock, and experimental music.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.