Bill Szymczyk
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Bill Szymczyk is an American music producer best known for his work with the Eagles, including producing their landmark album "Hotel California."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bill Szymczyk canonical | 27 |
| William Frank Szymczyk | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1249726 — 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 Szymczyk Context triple: [Completely Well, producer, Bill Szymczyk]
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A.
Ozzie Silna
Ozzie Silna was an American businessman best known for striking an extraordinarily lucrative television revenue deal during the ABA–NBA merger as a former co-owner of the Spirits of St. Louis basketball team.
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B.
Leon Jaworski
Leon Jaworski was a prominent American lawyer best known for serving as the Watergate special prosecutor who pursued the case against President Richard Nixon.
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C.
William Shea
William Shea is an editor known for his work on the film "The Wedding March."
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D.
Bill Vinovich
Bill Vinovich is an American NFL official best known for serving as the head referee in multiple Super Bowls, including Super Bowl XLIX.
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E.
Jon Bosak
Jon Bosak is a computer scientist best known for leading the original XML specification effort at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which helped standardize data interchange on the web.
- 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 Szymczyk Target entity description: Bill Szymczyk is an American music producer best known for his work with the Eagles, including producing their landmark album "Hotel California."
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A.
Ozzie Silna
Ozzie Silna was an American businessman best known for striking an extraordinarily lucrative television revenue deal during the ABA–NBA merger as a former co-owner of the Spirits of St. Louis basketball team.
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B.
Leon Jaworski
Leon Jaworski was a prominent American lawyer best known for serving as the Watergate special prosecutor who pursued the case against President Richard Nixon.
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C.
William Shea
William Shea is an editor known for his work on the film "The Wedding March."
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D.
Bill Vinovich
Bill Vinovich is an American NFL official best known for serving as the head referee in multiple Super Bowls, including Super Bowl XLIX.
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E.
Jon Bosak
Jon Bosak is a computer scientist best known for leading the original XML specification effort at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which helped standardize data interchange on the web.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
audio engineer
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human ⓘ music industry professional ⓘ record producer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Szymczyk ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
country rock
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music production ⓘ pop rock ⓘ rock music ⓘ |
| genreWorkedIn |
blues rock
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country rock ⓘ pop rock ⓘ rock ⓘ |
| givenName | Bill ⓘ |
| knownFor |
producing B.B. King recordings
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producing Hotel California ⓘ producing Joe Walsh albums ⓘ producing albums for the Eagles ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| name | Bill Szymczyk ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
helped define the sound of 1970s American rock
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produced multiple multi-platinum albums ⓘ produced one of the best‑selling albums of all time, Hotel California ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Barnstorm
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But Seriously, Folks... ⓘ Eagles Greatest Hits 1971–1975 ⓘ
linked to:
Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975)
Hotel California ⓘ On the Border ⓘ One of These Nights ⓘ
linked to:
One of These Nights (album)
Slowhand ⓘ So What ⓘ The Long Run ⓘ There Goes the Neighborhood ⓘ You Can’t Argue with a Sick Mind ⓘ |
| occupation |
audio engineer
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mixing engineer ⓘ record producer ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| workedWithArtist |
B.B. King
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linked to:
B. B. King
Eagles ⓘ Elvin Bishop ⓘ James Gang ⓘ
linked to:
The James Gang
Jay Ferguson ⓘ Joe Walsh ⓘ Michael Stanley Band ⓘ Rick Derringer ⓘ The J. Geils Band ⓘ The Outlaws ⓘ The Who ⓘ Wishbone Ash ⓘ |
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 Szymczyk Description of subject: Bill Szymczyk is an American music producer best known for his work with the Eagles, including producing their landmark album "Hotel California."
Referenced by (28)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
One of These Nights (album)
subject linked to:
Szymczyk
linked to: Bill Szymczyk
subject linked to:
"Thunder Island"