Hal Blaine
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Hal Blaine was a legendary American session drummer and key member of the Wrecking Crew, renowned for his work on countless 1960s and 1970s pop hits.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hal Blaine canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10339524 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hal Blaine Context triple: ["Be My Baby", drummer, Hal Blaine]
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A.
Earle Hagen
Earle Hagen was an American composer and arranger best known for his iconic television themes, including the whistled opening of The Andy Griffith Show.
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B.
Gordon Jenkins
Gordon Jenkins was an American arranger, composer, and conductor known for his lush orchestral work and collaborations with major artists like Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole.
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C.
Henry Mancini
Henry Mancini was an American composer, conductor, and arranger best known for his memorable film and television scores, including iconic themes such as "Moon River" and "The Pink Panther."
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D.
Nelson Riddle
Nelson Riddle was an American arranger, composer, and bandleader renowned for his sophisticated orchestral arrangements for major pop and jazz vocalists in the mid-20th century.
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E.
Lennie Hayton
Lennie Hayton was an American jazz pianist, composer, and Oscar-winning film music director and arranger, best known for his work at MGM and his long collaboration and marriage with singer Lena Horne.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hal Blaine Target entity description: Hal Blaine was a legendary American session drummer and key member of the Wrecking Crew, renowned for his work on countless 1960s and 1970s pop hits.
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A.
Earle Hagen
Earle Hagen was an American composer and arranger best known for his iconic television themes, including the whistled opening of The Andy Griffith Show.
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B.
Gordon Jenkins
Gordon Jenkins was an American arranger, composer, and conductor known for his lush orchestral work and collaborations with major artists like Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole.
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C.
Henry Mancini
Henry Mancini was an American composer, conductor, and arranger best known for his memorable film and television scores, including iconic themes such as "Moon River" and "The Pink Panther."
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D.
Nelson Riddle
Nelson Riddle was an American arranger, composer, and bandleader renowned for his sophisticated orchestral arrangements for major pop and jazz vocalists in the mid-20th century.
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E.
Lennie Hayton
Lennie Hayton was an American jazz pianist, composer, and Oscar-winning film music director and arranger, best known for his work at MGM and his long collaboration and marriage with singer Lena Horne.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (62)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
drummer
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human ⓘ musician ⓘ session musician ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Phil Spector
NERFINISHED
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Simon & Garfunkel NERFINISHED ⓘ The 5th Dimension NERFINISHED ⓘ The Beach Boys NERFINISHED ⓘ The Carpenters NERFINISHED ⓘ The Mamas & the Papas NERFINISHED ⓘ The Wrecking Crew NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum induction
NERFINISHED
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Percussive Arts Society Hall of Fame induction NERFINISHED ⓘ Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ⓘ |
| birthName | Harold Simon Belsky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | natural causes ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1929-02-05 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2019-03-11 ⓘ |
| employedBy | Phil Spector NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jewish American ⓘ |
| familyName | Belsky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
country
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easy listening ⓘ pop ⓘ rock ⓘ soft rock ⓘ |
| givenName | Harold ⓘ |
| hasSpouse | Joan Blaine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| honor | Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (as part of The Wrecking Crew recordings) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| instrument | drum kit ⓘ |
| memberOf | The Wrecking Crew NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Hal Blaine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being one of the most recorded drummers in history
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playing on numerous 1960s and 1970s pop hits ⓘ |
| notableWork |
recordings with Elvis Presley
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recordings with Frank Sinatra ⓘ recordings with Nancy Sinatra ⓘ recordings with Simon & Garfunkel ⓘ recordings with The 5th Dimension ⓘ recordings with The Association ⓘ recordings with The Beach Boys ⓘ recordings with The Byrds ⓘ recordings with The Carpenters ⓘ recordings with The Mamas & the Papas ⓘ recordings with The Ronettes ⓘ |
| occupation |
drummer
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recording artist ⓘ session musician ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Holyoke, Massachusetts, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Palm Desert, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordedOn |
"Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In" by The 5th Dimension
NERFINISHED
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"Be My Baby" by The Ronettes NERFINISHED ⓘ "Bridge over Troubled Water" by Simon & Garfunkel NERFINISHED ⓘ "California Dreamin'" by The Mamas & the Papas NERFINISHED ⓘ "Good Vibrations" by The Beach Boys NERFINISHED ⓘ "Mrs. Robinson" by Simon & Garfunkel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| residence | California, United States ⓘ |
| usedTechnique | Wall of Sound NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wrote | "Hal Blaine and the Wrecking Crew: The Story of the World's Most Recorded Musician" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1940s–2000s ⓘ |
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: Hal Blaine Description of subject: Hal Blaine was a legendary American session drummer and key member of the Wrecking Crew, renowned for his work on countless 1960s and 1970s pop hits.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
"Be My Baby"