Tom Petersson
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Tom Petersson is an American bassist best known as the co-founder and innovative 12-string bass player of the rock band Cheap Trick.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tom Petersson canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6976394 — 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 Petersson Context triple: [Cheap Trick, member, Tom Petersson]
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A.
Niklas Andersson
Niklas Andersson is a Swedish former professional ice hockey forward known for his successful career in the Swedish Hockey League and his standout performances with Malmö Redhawks.
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B.
Johan Anders Larsson
Johan Anders Larsson was the father of the renowned Swedish painter and illustrator Carl Larsson.
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C.
Erik Renström
Erik Renström is a Swedish academic and professor who serves as the rector (vice-chancellor) of Lund University.
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D.
Johan Carlsson
Johan Carlsson is a music producer known for his work on the film soundtrack for "Legend."
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E.
Erik Edlund
Erik Edlund was a Swedish physicist and academic who mentored future Nobel laureate Svante Arrhenius and contributed to 19th-century physical science education in Sweden.
- 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 Petersson Target entity description: Tom Petersson is an American bassist best known as the co-founder and innovative 12-string bass player of the rock band Cheap Trick.
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A.
Niklas Andersson
Niklas Andersson is a Swedish former professional ice hockey forward known for his successful career in the Swedish Hockey League and his standout performances with Malmö Redhawks.
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B.
Johan Anders Larsson
Johan Anders Larsson was the father of the renowned Swedish painter and illustrator Carl Larsson.
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C.
Erik Renström
Erik Renström is a Swedish academic and professor who serves as the rector (vice-chancellor) of Lund University.
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D.
Johan Carlsson
Johan Carlsson is a music producer known for his work on the film soundtrack for "Legend."
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E.
Erik Edlund
Erik Edlund was a Swedish physicist and academic who mentored future Nobel laureate Svante Arrhenius and contributed to 19th-century physical science education in Sweden.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bassist
ⓘ
human ⓘ musician ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| associatedAct | Cheap Trick ⓘ |
| coFounderOf | Cheap Trick ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| creativeContribution | pioneering use of 12-string bass in rock music ⓘ |
| familyName | Petersson ⓘ |
| genre |
hard rock
ⓘ
power pop ⓘ rock music ⓘ |
| givenName | Tom ⓘ |
| instrument |
12-string bass guitar
ⓘ
bass guitar ⓘ |
| knownFor |
co-founding the rock band Cheap Trick
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playing 12-string bass guitar ⓘ |
| memberOf | Cheap Trick ⓘ |
| name | Tom Petersson ⓘ |
| nationality | United States of America ⓘ |
| notableWork |
At Budokan
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linked to:
Live at Budokan
Cheap Trick (self-titled album) ⓘ Dream Police ⓘ Heaven Tonight ⓘ In Color ⓘ |
| occupation |
bassist
ⓘ
musician ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| roleInBand |
backing vocalist of Cheap Trick
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bassist of Cheap Trick ⓘ |
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 Petersson Description of subject: Tom Petersson is an American bassist best known as the co-founder and innovative 12-string bass player of the rock band Cheap Trick.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.