Charles Larkey
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Charles Larkey is an American bassist best known for his work with bands like The Fugs and Jo Mama and for his marriage to singer-songwriter Carole King.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Charles Larkey canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T616742 — 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: Charles Larkey Context triple: [Carole King, spouse, Charles Larkey]
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A.
Bert Keyes
Bert Keyes was an American songwriter, arranger, and producer known for his contributions to soul and R&B music in the mid-20th century.
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B.
James Caldwell
James Caldwell was one of the colonial civilians killed by British soldiers during the 1770 Boston Massacre, an event that helped fuel anti-British sentiment before the American Revolution.
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C.
Milton Van Dyke
Milton Van Dyke was an influential American fluid dynamicist and author known for his classic works on aerodynamics and fluid mechanics, including the widely used reference "An Album of Fluid Motion."
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D.
Tom Luddy
Tom Luddy was an American film producer, curator, and influential cinephile best known as a co-founder and long-time guiding force of the Telluride Film Festival.
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E.
Frank Richard Wells
Frank Richard Wells was a son of the famed English writer H. G. Wells.
- 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: Charles Larkey Target entity description: Charles Larkey is an American bassist best known for his work with bands like The Fugs and Jo Mama and for his marriage to singer-songwriter Carole King.
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A.
Bert Keyes
Bert Keyes was an American songwriter, arranger, and producer known for his contributions to soul and R&B music in the mid-20th century.
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B.
James Caldwell
James Caldwell was one of the colonial civilians killed by British soldiers during the 1770 Boston Massacre, an event that helped fuel anti-British sentiment before the American Revolution.
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C.
Milton Van Dyke
Milton Van Dyke was an influential American fluid dynamicist and author known for his classic works on aerodynamics and fluid mechanics, including the widely used reference "An Album of Fluid Motion."
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D.
Tom Luddy
Tom Luddy was an American film producer, curator, and influential cinephile best known as a co-founder and long-time guiding force of the Telluride Film Festival.
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E.
Frank Richard Wells
Frank Richard Wells was a son of the famed English writer H. G. Wells.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bassist
ⓘ
human ⓘ musician ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Carole King
ⓘ
Jo Mama ⓘ The Fugs ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| genre |
folk rock
ⓘ
rock music ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Larkey ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Charles ⓘ |
| instrument | bass guitar ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Jo Mama
ⓘ
The Fugs ⓘ |
| notableFor |
American bass playing in the 1960s and 1970s
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marriage to Carole King ⓘ |
| notableWork |
recordings with Jo Mama
ⓘ
recordings with The Fugs ⓘ |
| occupation |
bassist
ⓘ
musician ⓘ |
| partnerOf | Carole King ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Carole King ⓘ |
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: Charles Larkey Description of subject: Charles Larkey is an American bassist best known for his work with bands like The Fugs and Jo Mama and for his marriage to singer-songwriter Carole King.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Tapestry