Bob Seger
E146098
Bob Seger is an American rock singer-songwriter and musician known for his raspy voice and heartland rock anthems such as "Night Moves" and "Old Time Rock and Roll."
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bob Seger canonical | 23 |
| Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band | 4 |
| Bob Seger System | 1 |
| Robert Clark Seger | 1 |
| Seger | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1279939 — 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: Bob Seger Context triple: [We’ve Got Tonight, musicBy, Bob Seger]
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A.
Tom Bell
Tom Bell was an American football official best known for serving as the referee in Super Bowl III.
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B.
Kim Carnes
Kim Carnes is an American singer-songwriter best known for her raspy voice and the 1981 hit single "Bette Davis Eyes."
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C.
Jackson Browne
Jackson Browne is an American singer-songwriter known for his introspective lyrics and influential contributions to the 1970s soft rock and folk-rock genres.
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D.
Del Shannon
Del Shannon was an American rock and roll singer-songwriter best known for his 1961 hit single "Runaway."
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E.
Nils Lofgren
Nils Lofgren is an American rock musician, singer-songwriter, and virtuoso guitarist best known for his solo work and as a longtime member of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band.
- 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: Bob Seger Target entity description: Bob Seger is an American rock singer-songwriter and musician known for his raspy voice and heartland rock anthems such as "Night Moves" and "Old Time Rock and Roll."
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A.
Tom Bell
Tom Bell was an American football official best known for serving as the referee in Super Bowl III.
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B.
Kim Carnes
Kim Carnes is an American singer-songwriter best known for her raspy voice and the 1981 hit single "Bette Davis Eyes."
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C.
Jackson Browne
Jackson Browne is an American singer-songwriter known for his introspective lyrics and influential contributions to the 1970s soft rock and folk-rock genres.
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D.
Del Shannon
Del Shannon was an American rock and roll singer-songwriter best known for his 1961 hit single "Runaway."
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E.
Nils Lofgren
Nils Lofgren is an American rock musician, singer-songwriter, and virtuoso guitarist best known for his solo work and as a longtime member of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (57)
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: Bob Seger Description of subject: Bob Seger is an American rock singer-songwriter and musician known for his raspy voice and heartland rock anthems such as "Night Moves" and "Old Time Rock and Roll."
Referenced by (30)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
this entity surface form:
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
subject surface form:
Criteria Studios
this entity surface form:
Robert Clark Seger
this entity surface form:
Seger
this entity surface form:
Bob Seger System
this entity surface form:
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
this entity surface form:
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band