The Section
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The Section is a renowned group of Los Angeles session musicians, including drummer Russ Kunkel, known for their influential work on many major rock and singer-songwriter albums of the 1970s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Section canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10806484 — 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: The Section Context triple: [Russ Kunkel, memberOf, The Section]
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A.
La Section
La Section is the commonly used nickname for Section Paloise, a French professional rugby union club based in Pau.
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B.
The Love Section
The Love Section is a romantic drama film featuring La La Anthony that explores the complexities of modern relationships and love.
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C.
The Eleven
The Eleven is the nickname of Indy Eleven, a professional soccer club based in Indianapolis that competes in the USL Championship.
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D.
The Eleven
"The Eleven" is a complex, improvisational Grateful Dead song known for its unusual 11/8 time signature and extended live jams.
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E.
The Righteous
The Righteous is a film written by and starring Mark O'Brien, known as a brooding psychological horror drama with strong religious and moral themes.
- 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: The Section Target entity description: The Section is a renowned group of Los Angeles session musicians, including drummer Russ Kunkel, known for their influential work on many major rock and singer-songwriter albums of the 1970s.
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A.
La Section
La Section is the commonly used nickname for Section Paloise, a French professional rugby union club based in Pau.
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B.
The Love Section
The Love Section is a romantic drama film featuring La La Anthony that explores the complexities of modern relationships and love.
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C.
The Eleven
The Eleven is the nickname of Indy Eleven, a professional soccer club based in Indianapolis that competes in the USL Championship.
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D.
The Eleven
"The Eleven" is a complex, improvisational Grateful Dead song known for its unusual 11/8 time signature and extended live jams.
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E.
The Righteous
The Righteous is a film written by and starring Mark O'Brien, known as a brooding psychological horror drama with strong religious and moral themes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American rock band
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bass guitarist ⓘ drummer ⓘ guitarist ⓘ keyboardist ⓘ session musician group ⓘ |
| activePeriod | 1970s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Carole King
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Crosby, Stills & Nash ⓘ David Crosby ⓘ Don Henley ⓘ Graham Nash ⓘ Jackson Browne ⓘ Jackson Browne band ⓘ James Taylor ⓘ Joni Mitchell ⓘ Linda Ronstadt ⓘ Phil Collins ⓘ Warren Zevon ⓘ |
| basedIn | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| genre |
rock
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singer-songwriter ⓘ soft rock ⓘ |
| hasInstrumentalRole |
bass guitar
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drums ⓘ guitar ⓘ keyboards ⓘ |
| influenced | later studio session collectives ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Los Angeles studio musician scene
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The Section ⓘ The Section ⓘ The Section ⓘ The Section ⓘ |
| notableFor | backing prominent singer-songwriters of the 1970s ⓘ |
| notableMember |
Craig Doerge
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Danny Kortchmar ⓘ Leland Sklar ⓘ
linked to:
Lee Sklar
Russ Kunkel ⓘ |
| notableWork |
supporting Carole King albums in the 1970s
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supporting Jackson Browne albums in the 1970s ⓘ supporting James Taylor albums in the 1970s ⓘ |
| occupation | session musicians ⓘ |
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: The Section Description of subject: The Section is a renowned group of Los Angeles session musicians, including drummer Russ Kunkel, known for their influential work on many major rock and singer-songwriter albums of the 1970s.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
The Section
subject linked to:
The Section
subject linked to:
The Section
subject linked to:
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