Bonnie Raitt
E202110
Bonnie Raitt is an American blues and roots rock singer, songwriter, and slide guitarist renowned for her soulful voice, expressive guitar work, and Grammy-winning albums like "Nick of Time."
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bonnie Raitt canonical | 156 |
| Bonnie Lynn Raitt | 2 |
| American singer-songwriter and guitarist Bonnie Raitt | 1 |
| Bonnie Raitt (guitar) | 1 |
| Bonnie Raitt (vocals) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1786262 — 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: Bonnie Raitt Context triple: [Jackson Browne, associatedAct, Bonnie Raitt]
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A.
Emmylou Harris
Emmylou Harris is an American singer-songwriter celebrated for her influential work in country and folk music, renowned harmonies, and numerous Grammy-winning recordings.
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B.
Linda Ronstadt
Linda Ronstadt is an American singer known for her powerful, versatile voice and wide-ranging repertoire spanning rock, country, pop, and Latin music, making her one of the most successful and influential vocalists of the 20th century.
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C.
Rollie Lynn Riggs
Rollie Lynn Riggs was an American playwright, poet, and screenwriter best known for his play "Green Grow the Lilacs," which inspired the classic musical "Oklahoma!".
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D.
Emmylou Holmes
Emmylou Holmes is a person notable enough to be specifically recorded as a bearer of the surname Holmes, though widely known public details about her are limited.
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E.
Nanci Griffith
Nanci Griffith was an American singer-songwriter known for her delicate vocals and narrative-driven blend of folk and country music, highlighted by songs like "Love at the Five and Dime" and "From a Distance."
- 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: Bonnie Raitt Target entity description: Bonnie Raitt is an American blues and roots rock singer, songwriter, and slide guitarist renowned for her soulful voice, expressive guitar work, and Grammy-winning albums like "Nick of Time."
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A.
Emmylou Harris
Emmylou Harris is an American singer-songwriter celebrated for her influential work in country and folk music, renowned harmonies, and numerous Grammy-winning recordings.
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B.
Linda Ronstadt
Linda Ronstadt is an American singer known for her powerful, versatile voice and wide-ranging repertoire spanning rock, country, pop, and Latin music, making her one of the most successful and influential vocalists of the 20th century.
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C.
Rollie Lynn Riggs
Rollie Lynn Riggs was an American playwright, poet, and screenwriter best known for his play "Green Grow the Lilacs," which inspired the classic musical "Oklahoma!".
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D.
Emmylou Holmes
Emmylou Holmes is a person notable enough to be specifically recorded as a bearer of the surname Holmes, though widely known public details about her are limited.
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E.
Nanci Griffith
Nanci Griffith was an American singer-songwriter known for her delicate vocals and narrative-driven blend of folk and country music, highlighted by songs like "Love at the Five and Dime" and "From a Distance."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (75)
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: Bonnie Raitt Description of subject: Bonnie Raitt is an American blues and roots rock singer, songwriter, and slide guitarist renowned for her soulful voice, expressive guitar work, and Grammy-winning albums like "Nick of Time."
Referenced by (161)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Bonnie Raitt
subject linked to:
album "Joy of Nothing"
subject linked to:
John
subject linked to:
John