Joel Hoekstra
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Joel Hoekstra is an American rock guitarist best known for his work with bands like Whitesnake and Night Ranger, as well as for his role in the Broadway musical "Rock of Ages."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Joel Hoekstra canonical | 4 |
| Hoekstra | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3929846 — 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: Joel Hoekstra Context triple: [Whitesnake, hasMember, Joel Hoekstra]
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A.
Michael Schultz
Michael Schultz is an American film and television director best known for his influential work on 1970s comedies and dramas, including the cult classic "Car Wash."
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B.
James Whitaker
James Whitaker is a film cinematographer known for his work on feature films such as the comedy-drama "Troop Zero."
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C.
Richard Priebus
Richard Priebus is the father of former Republican National Committee chairman and White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus.
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D.
Michael R. Miller
Michael R. Miller is a film editor known for his work on major feature films, including the 2006 installment of the Rocky franchise.
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E.
Navin R. Johnson
Navin R. Johnson is the naive, bumbling protagonist of the 1979 comedy film "The Jerk," famously portrayed by Steve Martin.
- 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: Joel Hoekstra Target entity description: Joel Hoekstra is an American rock guitarist best known for his work with bands like Whitesnake and Night Ranger, as well as for his role in the Broadway musical "Rock of Ages."
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A.
Michael Schultz
Michael Schultz is an American film and television director best known for his influential work on 1970s comedies and dramas, including the cult classic "Car Wash."
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B.
James Whitaker
James Whitaker is a film cinematographer known for his work on feature films such as the comedy-drama "Troop Zero."
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C.
Richard Priebus
Richard Priebus is the father of former Republican National Committee chairman and White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus.
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D.
Michael R. Miller
Michael R. Miller is a film editor known for his work on major feature films, including the 2006 installment of the Rocky franchise.
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E.
Navin R. Johnson
Navin R. Johnson is the naive, bumbling protagonist of the 1979 comedy film "The Jerk," famously portrayed by Steve Martin.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American musician
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guitarist ⓘ human ⓘ rock musician ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activeIn | 21st century ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Cher
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Night Ranger ⓘ Rock of Ages ⓘ Trans-Siberian Orchestra ⓘ Whitesnake ⓘ |
| basedIn | New York City ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName |
Joel Hoekstra
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Hoekstra
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| fieldOfWork |
live performance
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rock music ⓘ |
| genre |
hard rock
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heavy metal ⓘ melodic rock ⓘ |
| givenName | Joel ⓘ |
| hasPart | project Joel Hoekstra's 13 ⓘ |
| hasStageName | Joel Hoekstra's 13 ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.joelhoekstra.com/ ⓘ |
| instrument | guitar ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Broadway musical Rock of Ages band
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Cher touring band ⓘ Night Ranger ⓘ Trans-Siberian Orchestra ⓘ Whitesnake ⓘ |
| name | Joel Hoekstra self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor |
guitar role in Rock of Ages on Broadway
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work with Night Ranger ⓘ work with Whitesnake ⓘ |
| notableInstrumentBrand |
Fender Musical Instruments Corporation
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surface form:
Fender
Gibson Guitar Corporation ⓘ
surface form:
Gibson
Marshall amplifiers ⓘ
surface form:
Marshall Amplification
|
| notableRole | guitarist in Broadway musical Rock of Ages ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Dying to Live
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Joel Hoekstra's 13 ⓘ Running Games ⓘ |
| occupation |
guitarist
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songwriter ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Frontiers Records ⓘ |
| socialMedia |
https://twitter.com/JoelHoekstra13
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https://www.facebook.com/JoelHoekstra13 ⓘ https://www.instagram.com/joelhoekstra13/ ⓘ |
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: Joel Hoekstra Description of subject: Joel Hoekstra is an American rock guitarist best known for his work with bands like Whitesnake and Night Ranger, as well as for his role in the Broadway musical "Rock of Ages."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Hoekstra