Gary Wright
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Gary Wright was an American singer-songwriter and keyboardist best known for his solo hit "Dream Weaver" and his work with the band Spooky Tooth.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Gary Wright canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9465349 — 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: Gary Wright Context triple: [All Things Must Pass, contributor, Gary Wright]
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A.
Bobby Whitlock
Bobby Whitlock is an American singer, songwriter, and keyboardist best known as a co-founder and key member of the blues-rock band Derek and the Dominos and for his collaborations with Eric Clapton.
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B.
Lyle Mays
Lyle Mays was an American jazz pianist, composer, and longtime collaborator of Pat Metheny, renowned for his sophisticated harmonies and influential work in contemporary jazz.
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C.
Gary Puckett
Gary Puckett is an American pop singer best known as the lead vocalist of Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, a band popular in the late 1960s for hits like "Young Girl."
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D.
Glen Stewart
Glen Stewart is a small rural community located within the Township of South Dundas in eastern Ontario, Canada.
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E.
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.
- 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: Gary Wright Target entity description: Gary Wright was an American singer-songwriter and keyboardist best known for his solo hit "Dream Weaver" and his work with the band Spooky Tooth.
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A.
Bobby Whitlock
Bobby Whitlock is an American singer, songwriter, and keyboardist best known as a co-founder and key member of the blues-rock band Derek and the Dominos and for his collaborations with Eric Clapton.
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B.
Lyle Mays
Lyle Mays was an American jazz pianist, composer, and longtime collaborator of Pat Metheny, renowned for his sophisticated harmonies and influential work in contemporary jazz.
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C.
Gary Puckett
Gary Puckett is an American pop singer best known as the lead vocalist of Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, a band popular in the late 1960s for hits like "Young Girl."
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D.
Glen Stewart
Glen Stewart is a small rural community located within the Township of South Dundas in eastern Ontario, Canada.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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keyboardist ⓘ recording artist ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1960s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
George Harrison
NERFINISHED
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Ringo Starr NERFINISHED ⓘ Spooky Tooth NERFINISHED ⓘ Wonderwheel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Gary Malcolm Wright NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath |
complications from Lewy body dementia
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complications from Parkinson's disease ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | George Harrison NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1943-04-26 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2023-09-04 ⓘ |
| genre |
progressive rock
ⓘ
rock music ⓘ soft rock ⓘ |
| instrument |
keyboards
ⓘ
organ ⓘ piano ⓘ synthesizer ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Spooky Tooth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Gary Wright NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAlbum |
Headin' Home
NERFINISHED
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The Dream Weaver NERFINISHED ⓘ The Light of Smiles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
hit single Dream Weaver
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membership in Spooky Tooth ⓘ |
| notableSingle |
Dream Weaver
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Love Is Alive NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Dream Weaver
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Love Is Alive NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 2 ⓘ |
| occupation |
keyboardist
ⓘ
musician ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Cresskill, New Jersey, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Palos Verdes Estates, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedOn | All Things Must Pass NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
A&M Records
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Warner Bros. Records ⓘ |
| residence | California, United States ⓘ |
| spouse | Rosemary Wright NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wroteSong |
Dream Weaver
NERFINISHED
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Love Is Alive 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: Gary Wright Description of subject: Gary Wright was an American singer-songwriter and keyboardist best known for his solo hit "Dream Weaver" and his work with the band Spooky Tooth.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.