Randy Meisner
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Randy Meisner was an American bassist, singer, and songwriter best known as a founding member of the rock band Eagles and for singing lead on their hit "Take It to the Limit."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Randy Meisner canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5351985 — 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: Randy Meisner Context triple: [Eagles, member, Randy Meisner]
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A.
Bernie Leadon
Bernie Leadon is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist best known as a founding member of the Eagles and for his influential work in country rock.
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B.
Danny Kortchmar
Danny Kortchmar is an American guitarist, songwriter, and producer best known for his extensive work with major singer-songwriters of the 1970s and 1980s, including James Taylor, Carole King, and Don Henley.
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C.
Chris Hillman
Chris Hillman is an American musician and songwriter best known as a pioneering member of the Byrds and the Flying Burrito Brothers, helping to shape country rock.
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D.
Richie Furay
Richie Furay is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist best known as a founding member of the influential country rock band Poco and for his role in pioneering the country rock genre.
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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: Randy Meisner Target entity description: Randy Meisner was an American bassist, singer, and songwriter best known as a founding member of the rock band Eagles and for singing lead on their hit "Take It to the Limit."
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A.
Bernie Leadon
Bernie Leadon is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist best known as a founding member of the Eagles and for his influential work in country rock.
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B.
Danny Kortchmar
Danny Kortchmar is an American guitarist, songwriter, and producer best known for his extensive work with major singer-songwriters of the 1970s and 1980s, including James Taylor, Carole King, and Don Henley.
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C.
Chris Hillman
Chris Hillman is an American musician and songwriter best known as a pioneering member of the Byrds and the Flying Burrito Brothers, helping to shape country rock.
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D.
Richie Furay
Richie Furay is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist best known as a founding member of the influential country rock band Poco and for his role in pioneering the country rock genre.
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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 (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bassist
ⓘ
human ⓘ musician ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Eagles
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Linda Ronstadt NERFINISHED ⓘ Poco NERFINISHED ⓘ Rick Nelson NERFINISHED ⓘ The Stone Canyon Band NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1946-03-08 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2023-07-26 ⓘ |
| familyName | Meisner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Randall Herman Meisner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
country rock
ⓘ
rock ⓘ soft rock ⓘ |
| givenName | Randall NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| instrument |
bass guitar
ⓘ
guitar ⓘ vocals ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being a founding member of the Eagles
ⓘ
co-writing and singing Take It to the Limit ⓘ singing high harmony vocals ⓘ |
| leadVocalOn | Take It to the Limit NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Eagles
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Poco NERFINISHED ⓘ Rick Nelson and the Stone Canyon Band NERFINISHED ⓘ The Drivin’ Dynamics NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAlbum |
Desperado
NERFINISHED
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Eagles NERFINISHED ⓘ Hotel California NERFINISHED ⓘ On the Border NERFINISHED ⓘ One of These Nights NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | Take It to the Limit NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
bassist
ⓘ
musician ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Scottsbluff, Nebraska, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Los Angeles, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | bassist of Eagles ⓘ |
| soloArtist | true ⓘ |
| songwriterOf | Take It to the Limit NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startOfCareer | 1960s ⓘ |
| vocalRole | high-harmony vocalist in Eagles ⓘ |
| voiceType | tenor ⓘ |
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: Randy Meisner Description of subject: Randy Meisner was an American bassist, singer, and songwriter best known as a founding member of the rock band Eagles and for singing lead on their hit "Take It to the Limit."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Eagles