Jerry Garcia’s father, Jose Ramon Garcia
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Jose Ramon Garcia was the Spanish-born father of Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia, remembered primarily for his influence on Jerry’s early life before his untimely death in a drowning accident.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jerry Garcia’s father, Jose Ramon Garcia canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2988556 — 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: Jerry Garcia’s father, Jose Ramon Garcia Context triple: [Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma, California, United States, notableBurial, Jerry Garcia’s father, Jose Ramon Garcia]
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A.
Jerry Garcia
Jerry Garcia was an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter best known as the charismatic frontman and lead guitarist of the pioneering psychedelic rock band the Grateful Dead.
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B.
Phil Lesh
Phil Lesh is an American bassist, singer, and songwriter best known as a founding member of the pioneering psychedelic rock band the Grateful Dead.
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C.
Ron "Pigpen" McKernan
Ron "Pigpen" McKernan was an American musician best known as a founding member, vocalist, and blues-influenced keyboardist and harmonica player for the Grateful Dead.
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D.
Gregg Rolie
Gregg Rolie is an American keyboardist and singer best known as a founding member and original lead vocalist of both Santana and Journey.
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E.
Bob Weir
Bob Weir is an American musician best known as a founding member, rhythm guitarist, and vocalist of the rock band the Grateful Dead.
- 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: Jerry Garcia’s father, Jose Ramon Garcia Target entity description: Jose Ramon Garcia was the Spanish-born father of Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia, remembered primarily for his influence on Jerry’s early life before his untimely death in a drowning accident.
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A.
Jerry Garcia
Jerry Garcia was an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter best known as the charismatic frontman and lead guitarist of the pioneering psychedelic rock band the Grateful Dead.
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B.
Phil Lesh
Phil Lesh is an American bassist, singer, and songwriter best known as a founding member of the pioneering psychedelic rock band the Grateful Dead.
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C.
Ron "Pigpen" McKernan
Ron "Pigpen" McKernan was an American musician best known as a founding member, vocalist, and blues-influenced keyboardist and harmonica player for the Grateful Dead.
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D.
Gregg Rolie
Gregg Rolie is an American keyboardist and singer best known as a founding member and original lead vocalist of both Santana and Journey.
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E.
Bob Weir
Bob Weir is an American musician best known as a founding member, rhythm guitarist, and vocalist of the rock band the Grateful Dead.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | drowning ⓘ |
| child | Jerry Garcia ⓘ |
| citizenship | Spain ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Spain ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Spanish American ⓘ |
| familyName |
García
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surface form:
Garcia
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| givenName |
Jose Ramon Garcia
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surface form:
Jose Ramon
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| influenced | Jerry Garcia ⓘ |
| influenceOn | Jerry Garcia’s early life ⓘ |
| instrument | clarinet ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
ⓘ
Spanish ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | accidental death ⓘ |
| name | Jose Ramon Garcia ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the father of Jerry Garcia ⓘ |
| occupation |
bandleader
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musician ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
California, United States
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surface form:
California
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| residence |
California, United States
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surface form:
California
San Francisco ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Ruth Marie Clifford ⓘ |
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: Jerry Garcia’s father, Jose Ramon Garcia Description of subject: Jose Ramon Garcia was the Spanish-born father of Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia, remembered primarily for his influence on Jerry’s early life before his untimely death in a drowning accident.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma, California, United States
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notableBurial
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Jerry Garcia’s father, Jose Ramon Garcia
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