Tom Coster
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Tom Coster is an American keyboardist and composer best known for his work with Santana and his contributions to jazz fusion and Latin rock.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tom Coster canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6380516 — 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: Tom Coster Context triple: [Europa (Earth's Cry Heaven's Smile), composer, Tom Coster]
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A.
Jeff Buchanan
Jeff Buchanan is a professional editor, likely working in publishing or media, known for collaborating on written content such as articles or manuscripts.
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B.
Joseph Cottle
Joseph Cottle was an English publisher and bookseller in Bristol best known for supporting and publishing early works by Romantic poets such as William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
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C.
Ron Darling
Ron Darling is a former Major League Baseball pitcher, best known for his years with the New York Mets and later work as a television baseball analyst.
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D.
Bill Malley
Bill Malley was an American film and television art director and production designer known for his work on influential films of the 1970s and 1980s.
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E.
Chris Latta
Chris Latta was an American voice actor best known for his iconic villain roles in 1980s animated series, including Cobra Commander in G.I. Joe and Starscream in The Transformers.
- 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: Tom Coster Target entity description: Tom Coster is an American keyboardist and composer best known for his work with Santana and his contributions to jazz fusion and Latin rock.
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A.
Jeff Buchanan
Jeff Buchanan is a professional editor, likely working in publishing or media, known for collaborating on written content such as articles or manuscripts.
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B.
Jeff Tarpley
Jeff Tarpley is an American actor best known to the public as the ex-husband of comedian and television personality Sherri Shepherd.
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C.
Joseph Cottle
Joseph Cottle was an English publisher and bookseller in Bristol best known for supporting and publishing early works by Romantic poets such as William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
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D.
Ron Darling
Ron Darling is a former Major League Baseball pitcher, best known for his years with the New York Mets and later work as a television baseball analyst.
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E.
Bill Malley
Bill Malley was an American film and television art director and production designer known for his work on influential films of the 1970s and 1980s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
composer
ⓘ
human ⓘ keyboardist ⓘ musician ⓘ |
| activeIn |
20th-century music
ⓘ
21st-century music ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Billy Cobham
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Carlos Santana ⓘ Gábor Szabó ⓘ Santana ⓘ
linked to:
Santana (band)
Vital Information ⓘ |
| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
music
ⓘ
music composition ⓘ music performance ⓘ |
| genre |
Latin rock
ⓘ
jazz ⓘ jazz fusion ⓘ rock ⓘ |
| hasRole |
arranger
ⓘ
band member ⓘ session musician ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| instrument |
keyboards
ⓘ
organ ⓘ piano ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Santana
ⓘ
linked to:
Santana (band)
|
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableGenreContribution |
development of Latin rock
ⓘ
development of jazz fusion ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Dance, Sister, Dance (Baila Mi Hermana)
ⓘ
Europa (Earth’s Cry Heaven’s Smile) ⓘ
linked to:
Europa (Earth's Cry Heaven's Smile)
Flor d’Luna (Moonflower) ⓘ collaborations with Santana ⓘ |
| occupation |
composer
ⓘ
keyboardist ⓘ record producer ⓘ |
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: Tom Coster Description of subject: Tom Coster is an American keyboardist and composer best known for his work with Santana and his contributions to jazz fusion and Latin rock.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.