Paul Tollett
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Paul Tollett is an American concert promoter best known as the co-founder and driving force behind the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Paul Tollett canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6355727 — 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: Paul Tollett Context triple: [Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival (Indio), founder, Paul Tollett]
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A.
Dean Tolson
Dean Tolson is a former American professional basketball player best known for his college career at the University of Arkansas and his time as a forward in the NBA during the 1970s.
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B.
Jon Caliri
Jon Caliri is an actor best known for playing the character Vinnie Pasetta.
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C.
Dan Toler
Dan Toler was an American rock and blues guitarist best known for his work with Southern rock groups in the late 1970s and 1980s.
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D.
Michael Pitts
Michael Pitts is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple individuals, including figures in fields such as politics, religion, and entertainment.
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E.
Paul Cantelon
Paul Cantelon is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist known for his film scores and work blending classical, jazz, and world music influences.
- 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: Paul Tollett Target entity description: Paul Tollett is an American concert promoter best known as the co-founder and driving force behind the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.
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A.
Dean Tolson
Dean Tolson is a former American professional basketball player best known for his college career at the University of Arkansas and his time as a forward in the NBA during the 1970s.
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B.
Jon Caliri
Jon Caliri is an actor best known for playing the character Vinnie Pasetta.
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C.
Dan Toler
Dan Toler was an American rock and blues guitarist best known for his work with Southern rock groups in the late 1970s and 1980s.
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D.
Michael Pitts
Michael Pitts is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple individuals, including figures in fields such as politics, religion, and entertainment.
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E.
Paul Cantelon
Paul Cantelon is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist known for his film scores and work blending classical, jazz, and world music influences.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
business executive
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concert promoter ⓘ human ⓘ |
| activeIn |
1990s
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2000s ⓘ 2010s ⓘ 2020s ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
AEG Presents
ⓘ
linked to:
AEG Live
|
| basedIn |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
|
| businessPartner | Goldenvoice co-founders ⓘ |
| coFounderOf | Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | Goldenvoice ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
music festivals
ⓘ
music promotion ⓘ |
| genre |
electronic dance music
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hip hop music ⓘ indie rock ⓘ rock music ⓘ |
| hasRole |
festival director for Coachella
ⓘ
talent booker for Coachella ⓘ |
| industry | live music industry ⓘ |
| influenced | modern large-scale music festivals in the United States ⓘ |
| knownFor | developing Coachella into a major global music festival ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
expanding Coachella to two weekends
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helping establish Coachella as a destination festival ⓘ |
| notableEventOrganized |
Coachella 1999
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Coachella 2001 ⓘ Coachella 2010 ⓘ Coachella 2012 ⓘ Coachella 2017 ⓘ Coachella 2019 ⓘ Coachella 2022 ⓘ |
| notableFor |
booking diverse and genre-spanning lineups
ⓘ
reuniting high-profile bands at Coachella ⓘ |
| notableWork | Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival ⓘ |
| occupation |
concert promoter
ⓘ
music festival organizer ⓘ |
| partOf | American music industry ⓘ |
| positionHeld | President of Goldenvoice ⓘ |
| residence | Southern California ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Coachella Valley
ⓘ
Los Angeles metropolitan area ⓘ
linked to:
Greater Los Angeles Area
|
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: Paul Tollett Description of subject: Paul Tollett is an American concert promoter best known as the co-founder and driving force behind the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.