Bob Clearmountain
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Bob Clearmountain is a renowned American recording engineer, mixer, and producer known for his work with major rock and pop artists since the late 1970s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bob Clearmountain canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10592414 — 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: Bob Clearmountain Context triple: [Break Every Rule, producer, Bob Clearmountain]
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A.
Bob Ludwig
Bob Ludwig is a renowned American audio mastering engineer celebrated for his work on countless major albums across multiple genres.
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B.
Chris Lord-Alge
Chris Lord-Alge is a renowned American mix engineer and producer known for his punchy, radio-ready rock and pop mixes for major artists.
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C.
Bruce Swedien
Bruce Swedien was a renowned American audio engineer and producer best known for his innovative recording and mixing work on Michael Jackson’s classic albums, particularly "Thriller."
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D.
Al Schmitt
Al Schmitt was a highly acclaimed American recording engineer and record producer known for his work with artists across jazz, rock, and pop, earning multiple Grammy Awards over his long career.
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E.
Bob Johnston
Bob Johnston was an American record producer best known for his work with Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, and other major artists in the 1960s and 1970s.
- 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: Bob Clearmountain Target entity description: Bob Clearmountain is a renowned American recording engineer, mixer, and producer known for his work with major rock and pop artists since the late 1970s.
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A.
Bob Ludwig
Bob Ludwig is a renowned American audio mastering engineer celebrated for his work on countless major albums across multiple genres.
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B.
Chris Lord-Alge
Chris Lord-Alge is a renowned American mix engineer and producer known for his punchy, radio-ready rock and pop mixes for major artists.
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C.
Bruce Swedien
Bruce Swedien was a renowned American audio engineer and producer best known for his innovative recording and mixing work on Michael Jackson’s classic albums, particularly "Thriller."
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D.
Al Schmitt
Al Schmitt was a highly acclaimed American recording engineer and record producer known for his work with artists across jazz, rock, and pop, earning multiple Grammy Awards over his long career.
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E.
Bob Johnston
Bob Johnston was an American record producer best known for his work with Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, and other major artists in the 1960s and 1970s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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record producer ⓘ recording engineer ⓘ |
| activeSince | late 1970s ⓘ |
| basedIn | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| genre |
pop music
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rock music ⓘ |
| influenced | contemporary rock mixing engineers ⓘ |
| knownFor |
clear, punchy drum sounds
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use of ambience and reverb in rock mixes ⓘ wide stereo imaging in mixes ⓘ |
| notableFor |
mixing large-format rock and pop records
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pioneering modern rock mixing aesthetics ⓘ |
| notableWork |
mixing Bon Jovi album "Crush"
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mixing Bruce Springsteen album "Born in the U.S.A." ⓘ mixing Bryan Adams album "Reckless" ⓘ mixing Chicago album "Chicago 17" ⓘ mixing Crowded House album "Crowded House" ⓘ mixing David Bowie album "Let’s Dance" ⓘ mixing Hall & Oates album "Big Bam Boom" ⓘ mixing INXS album "Kick" ⓘ mixing Pretenders album "Learning to Crawl" ⓘ mixing Robbie Williams album "Sing When You’re Winning" ⓘ mixing Roxy Music album "Avalon" ⓘ mixing Sheryl Crow album "Tuesday Night Music Club" ⓘ mixing Simple Minds album "Once Upon a Time" ⓘ mixing The Cure album "Mixed Up" ⓘ mixing The Rolling Stones album "Tattoo You" ⓘ mixing The Rolling Stones live album "Still Life" ⓘ |
| occupation |
mixing engineer
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record producer ⓘ recording engineer ⓘ |
| spouse | Betty Bennett NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation | CEO of Apogee Electronics ⓘ |
| workedWith |
Bon Jovi
NERFINISHED
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Bruce Springsteen NERFINISHED ⓘ Bryan Adams NERFINISHED ⓘ Chicago (band) NERFINISHED ⓘ Crowded House NERFINISHED ⓘ David Bowie NERFINISHED ⓘ Hall & Oates NERFINISHED ⓘ INXS NERFINISHED ⓘ Pretenders NERFINISHED ⓘ Robbie Williams NERFINISHED ⓘ Roxy Music NERFINISHED ⓘ Sheryl Crow NERFINISHED ⓘ Simple Minds NERFINISHED ⓘ The Cure NERFINISHED ⓘ The Rolling Stones NERFINISHED ⓘ Toto 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: Bob Clearmountain Description of subject: Bob Clearmountain is a renowned American recording engineer, mixer, and producer known for his work with major rock and pop artists since the late 1970s.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.