Joey Waronker – drums
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Joey Waronker is an American session and touring drummer known for his work with artists such as Beck, R.E.M., and Thom Yorke.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Joey Waronker – drummer | 1 |
| Joey Waronker – drums canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9376644 — 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: Joey Waronker – drums Context triple: [Atoms for Peace, hasMemberRole, Joey Waronker – drums]
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A.
Steve Foley – drums
Steve Foley was an American drummer best known for his work with the alternative rock band The Replacements in the early 1990s.
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B.
Steve Jordan (drums)
Steve Jordan is an American drummer, producer, and songwriter renowned for his work with artists like John Mayer, the Rolling Stones, and in the Saturday Night Live and Late Night with David Letterman bands.
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C.
Chris Layton – drums
Chris Layton is an American drummer best known as the longtime percussionist for Stevie Ray Vaughan’s blues-rock band Double Trouble.
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D.
Brian Downey (drummer)
Brian Downey is an Irish drummer best known as a founding member of the hard rock band Thin Lizzy.
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E.
Kenny Aronoff
Kenny Aronoff is an American rock drummer renowned for his powerful, precise playing and extensive session work with major artists across multiple genres.
- 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: Joey Waronker – drums Target entity description: Joey Waronker is an American session and touring drummer known for his work with artists such as Beck, R.E.M., and Thom Yorke.
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A.
Steve Foley – drums
Steve Foley was an American drummer best known for his work with the alternative rock band The Replacements in the early 1990s.
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B.
Steve Jordan (drums)
Steve Jordan is an American drummer, producer, and songwriter renowned for his work with artists like John Mayer, the Rolling Stones, and in the Saturday Night Live and Late Night with David Letterman bands.
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C.
Chris Layton – drums
Chris Layton is an American drummer best known as the longtime percussionist for Stevie Ray Vaughan’s blues-rock band Double Trouble.
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D.
Brian Downey (drummer)
Brian Downey is an Irish drummer best known as a founding member of the hard rock band Thin Lizzy.
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E.
Kenny Aronoff
Kenny Aronoff is an American rock drummer renowned for his powerful, precise playing and extensive session work with major artists across multiple genres.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
drummer
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human ⓘ session musician ⓘ touring musician ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Air
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Atoms for Peace ⓘ Beck ⓘ Eels ⓘ Elliott Smith ⓘ Gnarls Barkley ⓘ Johnny Cash ⓘ Lisa Germano ⓘ M83 ⓘ Macy Gray ⓘ Norah Jones ⓘ Paul McCartney ⓘ R.E.M. ⓘ Redd Kross ⓘ Rufus Wainwright ⓘ The Smashing Pumpkins ⓘ The Vines ⓘ Thom Yorke ⓘ Ultraísta ⓘ Yeasayer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
music industry
ⓘ
recording industry ⓘ |
| genre |
alternative rock
ⓘ
experimental rock ⓘ indie rock ⓘ |
| instrument |
drums
ⓘ
percussion ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Atoms for Peace
ⓘ
Ultraísta ⓘ |
| notableFor | American session and touring drummer ⓘ |
| notableWork |
drummer for Thom Yorke
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drummer on Beck studio recordings ⓘ drummer on R.E.M. late-1990s tours ⓘ drummer on Thom Yorke solo projects ⓘ touring drummer for Beck ⓘ touring drummer for R.E.M. ⓘ |
| occupation |
composer
ⓘ
drummer ⓘ record producer ⓘ |
| workedWith |
Beck
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Nigel Godrich ⓘ R.E.M. ⓘ Thom Yorke ⓘ |
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: Joey Waronker – drums Description of subject: Joey Waronker is an American session and touring drummer known for his work with artists such as Beck, R.E.M., and Thom Yorke.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.