Bernie Leadon
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Bernie Leadon is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist best known as a founding member of the Eagles and for his influential work in country rock.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bernie Leadon canonical | 22 |
| Tom Leadon | 4 |
| Bernard Mathew Leadon III | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4807574 — 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: Bernie Leadon Context triple: [Rust Never Sleeps, producer, Bernie Leadon]
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A.
Danny Kortchmar
Danny Kortchmar is an American guitarist, songwriter, and producer best known for his extensive work with major singer-songwriters of the 1970s and 1980s, including James Taylor, Carole King, and Don Henley.
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B.
Glenn Frey
Glenn Frey was an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, and co-founder of the rock band Eagles, known for hits like "Take It Easy" and "Heartache Tonight."
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C.
Clarence White
Clarence White was an influential American bluegrass and country guitarist best known for his innovative flatpicking style and work with the Kentucky Colonels and The Byrds.
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D.
Jack Casady
Jack Casady is an American bass guitarist best known as a founding member of Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna, recognized for his innovative, melodic rock bass style.
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E.
Nils Lofgren
Nils Lofgren is an American rock musician, singer-songwriter, and virtuoso guitarist best known for his solo work and as a longtime member of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band.
- 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: Bernie Leadon Target entity description: Bernie Leadon is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist best known as a founding member of the Eagles and for his influential work in country rock.
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A.
Danny Kortchmar
Danny Kortchmar is an American guitarist, songwriter, and producer best known for his extensive work with major singer-songwriters of the 1970s and 1980s, including James Taylor, Carole King, and Don Henley.
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B.
Glenn Frey
Glenn Frey was an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, and co-founder of the rock band Eagles, known for hits like "Take It Easy" and "Heartache Tonight."
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C.
Clarence White
Clarence White was an influential American bluegrass and country guitarist best known for his innovative flatpicking style and work with the Kentucky Colonels and The Byrds.
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D.
Jack Casady
Jack Casady is an American bass guitarist best known as a founding member of Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna, recognized for his innovative, melodic rock bass style.
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E.
Nils Lofgren
Nils Lofgren is an American rock musician, singer-songwriter, and virtuoso guitarist best known for his solo work and as a longtime member of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
guitarist
ⓘ
human ⓘ multi-instrumentalist ⓘ musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1960s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Eagles
ⓘ
Emmylou Harris ⓘ Gram Parsons ⓘ Linda Ronstadt ⓘ |
| birthName |
Bernard Mathew Leadon III
ⓘ
linked to:
Bernie Leadon
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1947-07-19 ⓘ |
| familyName |
Leadon
ⓘ
linked to:
River Leadon
|
| genre |
bluegrass
ⓘ
country ⓘ country rock ⓘ folk rock ⓘ rock ⓘ |
| givenName | Bernard ⓘ |
| influentialIn | development of country rock ⓘ |
| instrument |
banjo
ⓘ
dobro ⓘ guitar ⓘ mandolin ⓘ steel guitar ⓘ vocals ⓘ |
| leftBand | Eagles ⓘ |
| leftBandDate | 1975 ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Dillard & Clark
ⓘ
Eagles ⓘ Flying Burrito Brothers ⓘ
linked to:
The Flying Burrito Brothers
Hearts & Flowers ⓘ The Scottsville Squirrel Barkers ⓘ |
| name | Bernie Leadon ⓘ |
| notableAlbumContribution |
Desperado (1973 album)
ⓘ
linked to:
Desperado (Eagles album)
Eagles (1972 album) ⓘ
linked to:
Eagles (album)
On the Border (1974 album) ⓘ
linked to:
On the Border
One of These Nights (1975 album) ⓘ
linked to:
One of These Nights (album)
|
| notableSong |
My Man
ⓘ
Train Leaves Here This Morning ⓘ Witchy Woman ⓘ |
| notableWork | founding member of the Eagles ⓘ |
| occupation |
multi-instrumentalist
ⓘ
musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Minneapolis
|
| returnedAsTouringMemberOf | Eagles ⓘ |
| returnedAsTouringMemberYear | 2013 ⓘ |
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: Bernie Leadon Description of subject: Bernie Leadon is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist best known as a founding member of the Eagles and for his influential work in country rock.
Referenced by (27)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
The Eagles
linked to: Bernie Leadon
linked to: Bernie Leadon
linked to: Bernie Leadon
subject linked to:
One of These Nights (album)
linked to: Bernie Leadon
subject linked to:
Eagles
subject linked to:
Eagles