Raitt
E740870
Raitt is the surname of American blues and roots-rock singer, songwriter, and slide guitarist Bonnie Raitt.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Raitt canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8537330 — 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: Raitt Context triple: [Bonnie Raitt, familyName, Raitt]
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A.
Raukkan
Raukkan is a historic Aboriginal community in South Australia, significant as a cultural and spiritual center for the Ngarrindjeri people.
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B.
Raisio
Raisio is a town and municipality in southwestern Finland known for its industrial base and as the headquarters of the food company Raisio Group.
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C.
Hannut
Hannut is a municipality in the French-speaking Walloon Region of Belgium, known for its rural character and location between Liège and Brussels.
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D.
Riasti
Riasti is a regional dialect of the Saraiki language spoken primarily in parts of southern Punjab, Pakistan.
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E.
Tainaste
Tainaste is a small settlement located in the Middle Atlas region of Morocco, near the mountain Jbel Bou Naceur.
- 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: Raitt Target entity description: Raitt is the surname of American blues and roots-rock singer, songwriter, and slide guitarist Bonnie Raitt.
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A.
Raukkan
Raukkan is a historic Aboriginal community in South Australia, significant as a cultural and spiritual center for the Ngarrindjeri people.
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B.
Raisio
Raisio is a town and municipality in southwestern Finland known for its industrial base and as the headquarters of the food company Raisio Group.
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C.
Hannut
Hannut is a municipality in the French-speaking Walloon Region of Belgium, known for its rural character and location between Liège and Brussels.
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D.
Riasti
Riasti is a regional dialect of the Saraiki language spoken primarily in parts of southern Punjab, Pakistan.
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E.
Tainaste
Tainaste is a small settlement located in the Middle Atlas region of Morocco, near the mountain Jbel Bou Naceur.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
surname ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Raitt ⓘ |
| genre |
blues
ⓘ
roots rock ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| instrument | slide guitar ⓘ |
| occupation |
guitarist
ⓘ
musician ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| usedBy | Bonnie Raitt ⓘ |
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: Raitt Description of subject: Raitt is the surname of American blues and roots-rock singer, songwriter, and slide guitarist Bonnie Raitt.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.