Hank DeVito
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Hank DeVito is an American country musician and renowned pedal steel guitarist best known for his work with Emmylou Harris and other prominent artists in the 1970s and 1980s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hank DeVito canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11126031 — 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: Hank DeVito Context triple: [The Hot Band, hasMember, Hank DeVito]
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A.
Joe DeVito
Joe DeVito is an American artist and writer best known for expanding the King Kong universe through his illustrated novel and related works.
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B.
Don DeVito
Don DeVito was an American record producer and music industry executive best known for his work with Bob Dylan at Columbia Records.
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C.
Basil DeVito
Basil DeVito is a sports executive best known for helping launch and lead the original XFL football league as its first commissioner.
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D.
Danny DeVito
Danny DeVito is an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker known for his distinctive stature, gravelly voice, and memorable roles in film and television spanning several decades.
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E.
Chazz Palminteri
Chazz Palminteri is an American actor, screenwriter, and playwright best known for his tough-guy roles in crime dramas and for writing and starring in "A Bronx Tale."
- 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: Hank DeVito Target entity description: Hank DeVito is an American country musician and renowned pedal steel guitarist best known for his work with Emmylou Harris and other prominent artists in the 1970s and 1980s.
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A.
Joe DeVito
Joe DeVito is an American artist and writer best known for expanding the King Kong universe through his illustrated novel and related works.
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B.
Don DeVito
Don DeVito was an American record producer and music industry executive best known for his work with Bob Dylan at Columbia Records.
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C.
Basil DeVito
Basil DeVito is a sports executive best known for helping launch and lead the original XFL football league as its first commissioner.
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D.
Danny DeVito
Danny DeVito is an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker known for his distinctive stature, gravelly voice, and memorable roles in film and television spanning several decades.
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E.
Chazz Palminteri
Chazz Palminteri is an American actor, screenwriter, and playwright best known for his tough-guy roles in crime dramas and for writing and starring in "A Bronx Tale."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
musician
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pedal steel guitarist ⓘ person ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activeInField | Nashville country music scene ⓘ |
| activePeriod |
1970s
ⓘ
1980s ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Emmylou Harris
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John Hiatt ⓘ Nicolette Larson ⓘ Rodney Crowell ⓘ Rosanne Cash ⓘ The Hot Band ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
Emmylou Harris
ⓘ
John Hiatt ⓘ Nicolette Larson ⓘ Rodney Crowell ⓘ Rosanne Cash ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
|
| fieldOfWork |
country music
ⓘ
country rock ⓘ |
| genre | country music ⓘ |
| instrument |
guitar
ⓘ
pedal steel guitar ⓘ |
| knownFor |
pedal steel guitar work with Emmylou Harris in the 1970s
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writing the hit song "Queen of Hearts" ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
member of Emmylou Harris’s Hot Band
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session work as pedal steel guitarist on country and rock albums ⓘ |
| occupation |
musician
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pedal steel guitarist ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| songRecordedBy |
Midnight Girl / Sunset Town – recorded by Sweethearts of the Rodeo
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linked to:
Midnight Girl in a Sunset Town
Queen of Hearts – recorded by Dave Edmunds ⓘ Queen of Hearts – recorded by Juice Newton ⓘ Radio Lover – recorded by George Jones ⓘ |
| wroteSong |
(I’m Not) Easy to Forget
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I Never Will Marry ⓘ Midnight Girl / Sunset Town ⓘ
linked to:
Midnight Girl in a Sunset Town
Queen of Hearts ⓘ Radio Lover ⓘ |
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: Hank DeVito Description of subject: Hank DeVito is an American country musician and renowned pedal steel guitarist best known for his work with Emmylou Harris and other prominent artists in the 1970s and 1980s.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.