Paul Kantner
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Paul Kantner was an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter best known as a founding member and creative leader of the psychedelic rock band Jefferson Airplane.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Paul Kantner canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5364342 — 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: Paul Kantner Context triple: [Jefferson Airplane, foundedBy, Paul Kantner]
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A.
Marty Balin
Marty Balin was an American singer, songwriter, and musician best known as a founding member and key vocalist of the pioneering psychedelic rock band Jefferson Airplane.
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B.
Dave Krusen
Dave Krusen is an American rock drummer best known for playing on Pearl Jam’s debut album "Ten."
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C.
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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D.
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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E.
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.
- 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: Paul Kantner Target entity description: Paul Kantner was an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter best known as a founding member and creative leader of the psychedelic rock band Jefferson Airplane.
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A.
Marty Balin
Marty Balin was an American singer, songwriter, and musician best known as a founding member and key vocalist of the pioneering psychedelic rock band Jefferson Airplane.
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B.
Dave Krusen
Dave Krusen is an American rock drummer best known for playing on Pearl Jam’s debut album "Ten."
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C.
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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D.
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
guitarist
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human ⓘ musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 2016 ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1960 ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
David Freiberg
NERFINISHED
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Grace Slick NERFINISHED ⓘ Jack Casady NERFINISHED ⓘ Jefferson Airplane NERFINISHED ⓘ Jefferson Starship NERFINISHED ⓘ Jorma Kaukonen NERFINISHED ⓘ KBC Band NERFINISHED ⓘ Marty Balin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath |
multiple organ failure
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myocardial infarction ⓘ septic shock ⓘ |
| child | China Kantner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| creativeRole | creative leader of Jefferson Airplane ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1941-03-17 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2016-01-28 ⓘ |
| familyName | Kantner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Paul Lorin Kantner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
acid rock
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folk rock ⓘ psychedelic rock ⓘ rock ⓘ |
| givenName | Paul ⓘ |
| instrument |
guitar
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vocals ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Jefferson Airplane
NERFINISHED
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Jefferson Starship NERFINISHED ⓘ KBC Band NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableSong |
Crown of Creation
NERFINISHED
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Have You Seen the Saucers? NERFINISHED ⓘ Volunteers NERFINISHED ⓘ We Can Be Together NERFINISHED ⓘ Wooden Ships NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Baron von Tollbooth & the Chrome Nun
NERFINISHED
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Blows Against the Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ Sunfighter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | San Francisco, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | San Francisco, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
band leader of Jefferson Starship
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founding member of Jefferson Airplane ⓘ |
| residence | San Francisco, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Paul Kantner Description of subject: Paul Kantner was an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter best known as a founding member and creative leader of the psychedelic rock band Jefferson Airplane.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.