Rick Vito
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Rick Vito is an American guitarist and singer best known for his work in blues and rock, including a late-1980s stint with the legendary band Fleetwood Mac.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Rick Vito canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11898379 — 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: Rick Vito Context triple: [Fleetwood Mac, member, Rick Vito]
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A.
Nick D’Virgilio
Nick D’Virgilio is an American drummer, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist best known for his work with the progressive rock band Spock’s Beard and later with Big Big Train.
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B.
Vince Filippone
Vince Filippone is a film editor known for his work on the science fiction action movie "Riddick."
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C.
Vinnie Pasetta
Vinnie Pasetta is a character from the early 1980s teen sitcom "Square Pegs," known as one of the students navigating the social cliques and awkwardness of high school.
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D.
Vince Di Meglio
Vince Di Meglio is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the romantic comedy film "License to Wed."
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E.
Phil Varone
Phil Varone is an American drummer and music producer best known for his work with the hard rock bands Saigon Kick and Skid Row, as well as for his later career in television and stand-up comedy.
- 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: Rick Vito Target entity description: Rick Vito is an American guitarist and singer best known for his work in blues and rock, including a late-1980s stint with the legendary band Fleetwood Mac.
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A.
Nick D’Virgilio
Nick D’Virgilio is an American drummer, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist best known for his work with the progressive rock band Spock’s Beard and later with Big Big Train.
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B.
Vince Filippone
Vince Filippone is a film editor known for his work on the science fiction action movie "Riddick."
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C.
Vinnie Pasetta
Vinnie Pasetta is a character from the early 1980s teen sitcom "Square Pegs," known as one of the students navigating the social cliques and awkwardness of high school.
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D.
Vince Di Meglio
Vince Di Meglio is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the romantic comedy film "License to Wed."
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E.
Phil Varone
Phil Varone is an American drummer and music producer best known for his work with the hard rock bands Saigon Kick and Skid Row, as well as for his later career in television and stand-up comedy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
guitarist
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human ⓘ record producer ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activeIn |
20th century
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21st century ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Bob Seger
NERFINISHED
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Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band NERFINISHED ⓘ Bonnie Raitt NERFINISHED ⓘ Delbert McClinton NERFINISHED ⓘ Fleetwood Mac NERFINISHED ⓘ Jackson Browne NERFINISHED ⓘ John Fogerty NERFINISHED ⓘ John Mayall NERFINISHED ⓘ Little Richard NERFINISHED ⓘ Roger McGuinn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| endTime (Fleetwood Mac membership) | 1991 ⓘ |
| familyName | Vito NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | music industry ⓘ |
| genre |
blues
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blues rock ⓘ rock ⓘ roots rock ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | "Behind the Mask" is a rock album NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Richard ⓘ |
| hasDiscographySection |
collaborations
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session work ⓘ solo albums ⓘ |
| instrument |
guitar
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vocals ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Fleetwood Mac NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Rick Vito NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | slide guitar work ⓘ |
| notableWork |
membership in Fleetwood Mac
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solo album "Band Box Boogie" NERFINISHED ⓘ solo album "Blues Town" NERFINISHED ⓘ solo album "Crazy Cool" ⓘ solo album "In My Own Dream" ⓘ solo album "King of Hearts" ⓘ solo album "Lucky Devils" ⓘ solo album "Mojo on My Side" NERFINISHED ⓘ solo album "Pink & Black" NERFINISHED ⓘ solo album "Soulshaker" ⓘ |
| occupation |
guitarist
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record producer ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| performedOn | Fleetwood Mac album "Behind the Mask" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startTime (Fleetwood Mac membership) | 1987 ⓘ |
| style | slide guitar ⓘ |
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: Rick Vito Description of subject: Rick Vito is an American guitarist and singer best known for his work in blues and rock, including a late-1980s stint with the legendary band Fleetwood Mac.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.