Bill Frisell
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Bill Frisell is an American guitarist and composer known for his distinctive, genre-blending approach that spans jazz, folk, Americana, and experimental music.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bill Frisell canonical | 62 |
| Frisell | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1881254 — 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: Bill Frisell Context triple: [Jason Moran, hasCollaboratedWith, Bill Frisell]
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Pat Metheny
Pat Metheny is an influential American jazz guitarist and composer known for his innovative work in modern jazz and fusion, particularly with the Pat Metheny Group.
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Ry Cooder
Ry Cooder is an American guitarist, composer, and producer renowned for his slide guitar work and for exploring and popularizing diverse roots and world music traditions.
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Mike Bloomfield
Mike Bloomfield was an influential American blues and rock guitarist best known for his work with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band and his pioneering electric guitar contributions in the 1960s.
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Charles Lloyd
Charles Lloyd is an influential American jazz saxophonist, flutist, and composer known for his genre-blending style and acclaimed work since the 1960s.
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E.
Gary Burton
Gary Burton is an influential American jazz vibraphonist, bandleader, and educator known for pioneering the four-mallet technique and advancing jazz fusion.
- 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: Bill Frisell Target entity description: Bill Frisell is an American guitarist and composer known for his distinctive, genre-blending approach that spans jazz, folk, Americana, and experimental music.
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A.
Pat Metheny
Pat Metheny is an influential American jazz guitarist and composer known for his innovative work in modern jazz and fusion, particularly with the Pat Metheny Group.
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B.
Ry Cooder
Ry Cooder is an American guitarist, composer, and producer renowned for his slide guitar work and for exploring and popularizing diverse roots and world music traditions.
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C.
Mike Bloomfield
Mike Bloomfield was an influential American blues and rock guitarist best known for his work with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band and his pioneering electric guitar contributions in the 1960s.
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D.
Charles Lloyd
Charles Lloyd is an influential American jazz saxophonist, flutist, and composer known for his genre-blending style and acclaimed work since the 1960s.
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E.
Gary Burton
Gary Burton is an influential American jazz vibraphonist, bandleader, and educator known for pioneering the four-mallet technique and advancing jazz fusion.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (56)
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: Bill Frisell Description of subject: Bill Frisell is an American guitarist and composer known for his distinctive, genre-blending approach that spans jazz, folk, Americana, and experimental music.
Referenced by (64)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Moran
linked to: Bill Frisell
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Street Dreams (1988 album)
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Album "Have a Little Faith"
subject linked to:
Album "Have a Little Faith"
subject linked to:
Album "Have a Little Faith"
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Album "Nashville"
subject linked to:
Album "Nashville"
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Album "Good Dog, Happy Man"
subject linked to:
Album "Good Dog, Happy Man"
subject linked to:
Album "Good Dog, Happy Man"
subject linked to:
Album "Good Dog, Happy Man"
subject linked to:
Album "Blues Dream"
subject linked to:
Album "Blues Dream"
subject linked to:
Album "Blues Dream"
subject linked to:
Album "History, Mystery"
subject linked to:
Album "History, Mystery"
subject linked to:
Album "History, Mystery"
subject linked to:
Album "History, Mystery"
subject linked to:
Album "Big Sur"
subject linked to:
Album "Big Sur"
subject linked to:
Album "Big Sur"
subject linked to:
Album "Guitar in the Space Age!"