Tom Constanten
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Tom Constanten is an American keyboardist and composer best known for his late-1960s tenure with the psychedelic rock band the Grateful Dead.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tom Constanten canonical | 9 |
| Tom Constanten as Grateful Dead keyboardist | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1159345 — 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: Tom Constanten Context triple: [Grateful Dead, member, Tom Constanten]
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A.
George Zames
George Zames was a prominent control theorist known for his foundational contributions to robust control and H-infinity methods in systems engineering.
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B.
Ronald Bass
Ronald Bass is an Academy Award–winning American screenwriter and producer known for writing acclaimed films such as "Rain Man," "The Joy Luck Club," and numerous popular Hollywood dramas.
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C.
John O’May
John O’May is an actor known for his role in the Australian musical comedy film "Starstruck" (1982).
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D.
Dennis Crosby
Dennis Crosby was an American singer and actor best known as one of Bing Crosby’s sons who performed with his brothers as part of the Crosby family entertainment legacy.
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E.
Daniel Robert Elfman
Daniel Robert Elfman is an American composer, singer, and songwriter best known for his film scores and for founding the band Oingo Boingo.
- 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: Tom Constanten Target entity description: Tom Constanten is an American keyboardist and composer best known for his late-1960s tenure with the psychedelic rock band the Grateful Dead.
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A.
George Zames
George Zames was a prominent control theorist known for his foundational contributions to robust control and H-infinity methods in systems engineering.
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B.
Ronald Bass
Ronald Bass is an Academy Award–winning American screenwriter and producer known for writing acclaimed films such as "Rain Man," "The Joy Luck Club," and numerous popular Hollywood dramas.
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C.
John O’May
John O’May is an actor known for his role in the Australian musical comedy film "Starstruck" (1982).
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D.
Dennis Crosby
Dennis Crosby was an American singer and actor best known as one of Bing Crosby’s sons who performed with his brothers as part of the Crosby family entertainment legacy.
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E.
Daniel Robert Elfman
Daniel Robert Elfman is an American composer, singer, and songwriter best known for his film scores and for founding the band Oingo Boingo.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American musician
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composer ⓘ human ⓘ keyboardist ⓘ musician ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1960s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Bob Weir
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Grateful Dead ⓘ Mickey Hart ⓘ Phil Lesh ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1944-03-19 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Long Branch, New Jersey, United States ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of California, Berkeley ⓘ |
| endTime | 1970 (tenure with the Grateful Dead) ⓘ |
| familyName | Constanten ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
live performance
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music composition ⓘ |
| genre |
classical music
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experimental music ⓘ psychedelic rock ⓘ rock music ⓘ |
| givenName | Tom ⓘ |
| instrument |
keyboards
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organ ⓘ piano ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Grateful Dead ⓘ |
| militaryService | United States Air Force ⓘ |
| name | Tom Constanten ⓘ |
| notableEvent | performed with the Grateful Dead during the late 1960s ⓘ |
| notableWork |
contributions to the Grateful Dead albums "Anthem of the Sun"
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contributions to the Grateful Dead albums "Aoxomoxoa" ⓘ contributions to the Grateful Dead live album "Live/Dead" ⓘ keyboard performances with the Grateful Dead ⓘ solo piano and electronic compositions ⓘ |
| occupation |
composer
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keyboardist ⓘ music teacher ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Relix Records ⓘ |
| residence |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
|
| startTime | 1968 (tenure with the Grateful Dead) ⓘ |
| studiedUnder |
Karlheinz Stockhausen
ⓘ
Luciano Berio ⓘ |
| website | http://www.tomconstanten.net/ ⓘ |
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: Tom Constanten Description of subject: Tom Constanten is an American keyboardist and composer best known for his late-1960s tenure with the psychedelic rock band the Grateful Dead.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Tom Constanten