Ric Wake
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Ric Wake is a Grammy-winning American record producer best known for his work with major pop artists such as Mariah Carey, Celine Dion, and Jennifer Lopez.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ric Wake canonical | 25 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1231106 — 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: Ric Wake Context triple: [Mariah Carey (album), producer, Ric Wake]
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A.
Rex Walters
Rex Walters is an American former professional basketball player and college coach best known for his head coaching tenure at the University of San Francisco and his sharpshooting guard play at Kansas.
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B.
Richie Roberts
Richie Roberts is a real-life New Jersey detective and prosecutor best known for his role in bringing down drug lord Frank Lucas, a story dramatized in the film "American Gangster."
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C.
Kevin Nagle
Kevin Nagle is an American businessman and sports investor best known for leading the ownership of Sacramento Republic FC and advocating for Major League Soccer expansion in Sacramento.
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D.
Phil Nevin
Phil Nevin is a former Major League Baseball third baseman and manager best known for his All-Star playing career in the 1990s and 2000s and later managerial roles, including with the Los Angeles Angels.
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E.
Chris McAlister
Chris McAlister is a former NFL cornerback best known for his Pro Bowl career with the Baltimore Ravens, including helping the team win Super Bowl XXXV.
- 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: Ric Wake Target entity description: Ric Wake is a Grammy-winning American record producer best known for his work with major pop artists such as Mariah Carey, Celine Dion, and Jennifer Lopez.
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A.
Rex Walters
Rex Walters is an American former professional basketball player and college coach best known for his head coaching tenure at the University of San Francisco and his sharpshooting guard play at Kansas.
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B.
Richie Roberts
Richie Roberts is a real-life New Jersey detective and prosecutor best known for his role in bringing down drug lord Frank Lucas, a story dramatized in the film "American Gangster."
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C.
Kevin Nagle
Kevin Nagle is an American businessman and sports investor best known for leading the ownership of Sacramento Republic FC and advocating for Major League Soccer expansion in Sacramento.
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D.
Phil Nevin
Phil Nevin is a former Major League Baseball third baseman and manager best known for his All-Star playing career in the 1990s and 2000s and later managerial roles, including with the Los Angeles Angels.
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E.
Chris McAlister
Chris McAlister is a former NFL cornerback best known for his Pro Bowl career with the Baltimore Ravens, including helping the team win Super Bowl XXXV.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Grammy Award winner
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human ⓘ record producer ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod |
early 21st century
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late 20th century ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Grammy Award ⓘ |
| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
music production
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songwriting ⓘ |
| genre |
adult contemporary music
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dance-pop ⓘ pop music ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | produced hit singles for major pop artists in the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s ⓘ |
| notableCollaboration |
Anastacia
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Barry Manilow ⓘ Celine Dion ⓘ Delta Goodrem ⓘ Gloria Estefan ⓘ Jennifer Lopez ⓘ Jessica Simpson ⓘ Kelly Clarkson ⓘ Lara Fabian ⓘ Marc Anthony ⓘ Mariah Carey ⓘ Ricky Martin ⓘ Taylor Dayne ⓘ Thalía ⓘ Yanni ⓘ |
| notableWork |
production work for Anastacia
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production work for Barry Manilow ⓘ production work for Celine Dion ⓘ production work for Delta Goodrem ⓘ production work for Gloria Estefan ⓘ production work for Jennifer Lopez ⓘ production work for Jessica Simpson ⓘ production work for Kelly Clarkson ⓘ production work for Lara Fabian ⓘ production work for Marc Anthony ⓘ production work for Mariah Carey ⓘ production work for Ricky Martin ⓘ production work for Taylor Dayne ⓘ production work for Thalía ⓘ production work for Yanni ⓘ |
| occupation |
music arranger
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record producer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
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: Ric Wake Description of subject: Ric Wake is a Grammy-winning American record producer best known for his work with major pop artists such as Mariah Carey, Celine Dion, and Jennifer Lopez.
Referenced by (25)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
album "Mariah Carey"
subject linked to:
Let’s Talk About Love
subject linked to:
I’ll Be Your Shelter (Taylor Dayne song, production involvement)