Greg Phillinganes
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Greg Phillinganes is an American keyboardist, musical director, and session musician renowned for his work with artists like Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, and Eric Clapton.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Greg Phillinganes canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7298926 — 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: Greg Phillinganes Context triple: [Journeyman, featuresArtist, Greg Phillinganes]
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A.
Tony Banks
Tony Banks is an English musician and songwriter best known as the keyboardist and a founding member of the progressive rock band Genesis.
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B.
Trevor Horn
Trevor Horn is a renowned English record producer, musician, and songwriter known for his influential work in shaping the sound of 1980s pop and new wave music.
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C.
Alan Parsons
Alan Parsons is a British audio engineer, musician, and record producer best known for his work on landmark albums like Pink Floyd's "The Dark Side of the Moon" and for leading The Alan Parsons Project.
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D.
Jeff Lynne
Jeff Lynne is an English singer, songwriter, producer, and co-founder of Electric Light Orchestra, renowned for his lush, layered production style and collaborations with major rock artists.
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E.
Bob Ezrin
Bob Ezrin is a renowned Canadian music producer and keyboardist best known for his work on landmark rock albums by artists such as Pink Floyd, Alice Cooper, and Kiss.
- 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: Greg Phillinganes Target entity description: Greg Phillinganes is an American keyboardist, musical director, and session musician renowned for his work with artists like Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, and Eric Clapton.
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A.
Tony Banks
Tony Banks is an English musician and songwriter best known as the keyboardist and a founding member of the progressive rock band Genesis.
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B.
Trevor Horn
Trevor Horn is a renowned English record producer, musician, and songwriter known for his influential work in shaping the sound of 1980s pop and new wave music.
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C.
Alan Parsons
Alan Parsons is a British audio engineer, musician, and record producer best known for his work on landmark albums like Pink Floyd's "The Dark Side of the Moon" and for leading The Alan Parsons Project.
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D.
Jeff Lynne
Jeff Lynne is an English singer, songwriter, producer, and co-founder of Electric Light Orchestra, renowned for his lush, layered production style and collaborations with major rock artists.
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E.
Bob Ezrin
Bob Ezrin is a renowned Canadian music producer and keyboardist best known for his work on landmark rock albums by artists such as Pink Floyd, Alice Cooper, and Kiss.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American musician
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human ⓘ keyboardist ⓘ musical director ⓘ session musician ⓘ |
| activity |
live performance
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music arrangement ⓘ studio recording ⓘ tour musical direction ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Aretha Franklin
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Donna Summer ⓘ Eric Clapton ⓘ George Benson ⓘ Lionel Richie ⓘ Michael Jackson ⓘ Paul McCartney ⓘ Quincy Jones ⓘ Stevie Wonder ⓘ Toto ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| genre |
R&B
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funk ⓘ pop music ⓘ soul music ⓘ |
| givenName | Greg ⓘ |
| instrument |
keyboards
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piano ⓘ synthesizer ⓘ |
| name | Greg Phillinganes ⓘ |
| notableRole |
musical director for major pop and R&B tours
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touring keyboardist for Michael Jackson ⓘ |
| notableWorkWith |
Anita Baker
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Aretha Franklin ⓘ Babyface ⓘ Donna Summer ⓘ Eric Clapton ⓘ George Benson ⓘ Lionel Richie ⓘ Michael Jackson ⓘ Paul McCartney ⓘ Quincy Jones ⓘ Stevie Wonder ⓘ Toto ⓘ |
| occupation |
keyboardist
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musical director ⓘ session musician ⓘ |
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: Greg Phillinganes Description of subject: Greg Phillinganes is an American keyboardist, musical director, and session musician renowned for his work with artists like Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, and Eric Clapton.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.