Mr. Fingers
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Mr. Fingers is the influential house music alias of Chicago producer Larry Heard, renowned for pioneering deep house with tracks like "Can You Feel It."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mr. Fingers canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3776644 — 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: Mr. Fingers Context triple: [Fade, sampledArtist, Mr. Fingers]
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A.
Matthew Herbert
Matthew Herbert is an experimental British musician and producer known for his innovative use of found sounds and unconventional recording techniques in electronic and jazz-influenced music.
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B.
A-Trak
A-Trak is a Canadian DJ, turntablist, and record producer known for his championship-level scratching skills and influential work in electronic and hip-hop music.
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C.
Benny Benassi
Benny Benassi is an Italian DJ and record producer best known for his influential electro house hits like "Satisfaction."
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D.
Alva Noto
Alva Noto is a German electronic musician and visual artist known for his minimalist, experimental soundscapes and frequent collaborations with composer Ryuichi Sakamoto.
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E.
DJ Dahi
DJ Dahi is an American record producer and DJ known for his innovative, genre-blending work with major hip-hop and R&B artists.
- 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: Mr. Fingers Target entity description: Mr. Fingers is the influential house music alias of Chicago producer Larry Heard, renowned for pioneering deep house with tracks like "Can You Feel It."
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A.
Matthew Herbert
Matthew Herbert is an experimental British musician and producer known for his innovative use of found sounds and unconventional recording techniques in electronic and jazz-influenced music.
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B.
A-Trak
A-Trak is a Canadian DJ, turntablist, and record producer known for his championship-level scratching skills and influential work in electronic and hip-hop music.
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C.
Benny Benassi
Benny Benassi is an Italian DJ and record producer best known for his influential electro house hits like "Satisfaction."
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D.
Alva Noto
Alva Noto is a German electronic musician and visual artist known for his minimalist, experimental soundscapes and frequent collaborations with composer Ryuichi Sakamoto.
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E.
DJ Frank E
DJ Frank E is an American record producer and songwriter known for crafting pop and hip-hop hits for major artists across the 2000s and 2010s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
deep house artist
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house music producer ⓘ musical artist ⓘ stage name ⓘ |
| activeFrom | 1980s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Fingers Inc.
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Larry Heard ⓘ Loosefingers ⓘ |
| cityOfOrigin | Chicago ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| culturalImpact |
helped define the sound of deep house in the mid-1980s
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influenced later generations of house and electronic producers ⓘ |
| firstMajorSuccess |
Can You Feel It
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Mystery of Love ⓘ |
| genre |
Chicago house
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deep house ⓘ house music ⓘ |
| influencedGenre |
Chicago house
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ambient house ⓘ deep house ⓘ |
| instrument |
drum machine
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sampler ⓘ synthesizer ⓘ |
| label | Alleviated Records ⓘ |
| memberOf | Fingers Inc. ⓘ |
| notableRelease |
Ammnesia
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Cerebral Hemispheres ⓘ Introduction ⓘ |
| notableTrackFeature |
use of the Roland TR-707
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use of the Roland TR-909 ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Ammnesia
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Can You Feel It ⓘ Closer ⓘ Mystery of Love ⓘ Washing Machine ⓘ What About This Love ⓘ |
| occupation |
DJ
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record producer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| originScene | Chicago underground club scene ⓘ |
| realName | Larry Heard ⓘ |
| roleInGenre | pioneer of deep house ⓘ |
| styleCharacteristic |
atmospheric textures
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minimal drum programming ⓘ soulful melodies ⓘ warm analog synths ⓘ |
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: Mr. Fingers Description of subject: Mr. Fingers is the influential house music alias of Chicago producer Larry Heard, renowned for pioneering deep house with tracks like "Can You Feel It."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.