Lee Sklar
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Lee Sklar is a renowned American session bassist known for his prolific work with major artists across rock, pop, and film soundtracks since the 1970s.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Leland Sklar | 5 |
| Lee Sklar canonical | 3 |
| Leland Bruce Sklar | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3651605 — 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: Lee Sklar Context triple: [Thoroughbred, featuresMusician, Lee Sklar]
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A.
Paul Wernick
Paul Wernick is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the hit Deadpool films and other major Hollywood action-comedies.
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B.
Howard Lasnik
Howard Lasnik is a prominent American linguist known for his influential work in generative syntax and his close collaboration with Noam Chomsky in developing contemporary syntactic theory.
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C.
Sam Levenson
Sam Levenson was an American humorist, writer, and television host known for his warm, family-centered Jewish humor and popular books such as "Everything But Money."
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D.
Michele Lerner
Michele Lerner is known primarily as the third wife of American lyricist and playwright Alan Jay Lerner.
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E.
Joel Cohen
Joel Cohen is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the screenplay of Pixar's landmark animated film "Toy Story."
- 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: Lee Sklar Target entity description: Lee Sklar is a renowned American session bassist known for his prolific work with major artists across rock, pop, and film soundtracks since the 1970s.
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A.
Paul Wernick
Paul Wernick is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the hit Deadpool films and other major Hollywood action-comedies.
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B.
Howard Lasnik
Howard Lasnik is a prominent American linguist known for his influential work in generative syntax and his close collaboration with Noam Chomsky in developing contemporary syntactic theory.
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C.
Sam Levenson
Sam Levenson was an American humorist, writer, and television host known for his warm, family-centered Jewish humor and popular books such as "Everything But Money."
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D.
Michele Lerner
Michele Lerner is known primarily as the third wife of American lyricist and playwright Alan Jay Lerner.
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E.
Joel Cohen
Joel Cohen is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the screenplay of Pixar's landmark animated film "Toy Story."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bassist
ⓘ
human ⓘ musician ⓘ session musician ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart |
1960s
ⓘ
1970s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Billy Cobham
ⓘ
Carole King ⓘ Dolly Parton ⓘ Daryl Hall & John Oates ⓘ
surface form:
Hall & Oates
Jackson Browne ⓘ James Taylor ⓘ Lee Ritenour ⓘ Linda Ronstadt ⓘ Lyle Lovett ⓘ Phil Collins ⓘ Reba McEntire ⓘ Toto ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Sklar ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film music
ⓘ
music industry ⓘ television music ⓘ |
| fullName |
Lee Sklar
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Leland Bruce Sklar
|
| genre |
folk rock
ⓘ
pop music ⓘ rock music ⓘ soft rock ⓘ |
| givenName | Leland ⓘ |
| hasDistinctiveFeature |
long beard
ⓘ
round eyeglasses ⓘ |
| instrument | bass guitar ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Immediate Family
ⓘ
The Section ⓘ |
| name | Lee Sklar self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
prolific session work since the 1970s
ⓘ
studio and live work with major rock and pop artists ⓘ work on film and television soundtracks ⓘ |
| notableWork |
bass performances on numerous hit records
ⓘ
contributions to film soundtracks ⓘ |
| occupation |
bassist
ⓘ
recording artist ⓘ session musician ⓘ touring musician ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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: Lee Sklar Description of subject: Lee Sklar is a renowned American session bassist known for his prolific work with major artists across rock, pop, and film soundtracks since the 1970s.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Leland Sklar
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Leland Sklar
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Leland Sklar
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Leland Sklar
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Leland Sklar