Joey Spampinato
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Joey Spampinato is an American bassist, singer, and songwriter best known as a founding member of the rock band NRBQ and for his work as a sought-after session and touring musician.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Joey Spampinato canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5628652 — 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: Joey Spampinato Context triple: [The X-Pensive Winos, member, Joey Spampinato]
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A.
Joey DeLuca
Joey DeLuca is a fictional character from the short-lived 1970s American sitcom "Blansky's Beauties."
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B.
Richie DiMaso
Richie DiMaso is an ambitious and volatile FBI agent in the film "American Hustle" who drives the high-stakes sting operation at the story’s center.
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C.
Johnny Cammareri
Johnny Cammareri is a nervous, indecisive fiancé in the romantic comedy film "Moonstruck," whose actions help catalyze the movie’s central love triangle.
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D.
Larry Fratangelo
Larry Fratangelo is an American percussionist best known for his work with artists like Kid Rock and his band Twisted Brown Trucker, as well as his contributions to funk and rock music.
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E.
Bobby Baccalieri
Bobby Baccalieri is a fictional mobster and loyal, soft-spoken capo in the DiMeo crime family on the television series "The Sopranos."
- 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: Joey Spampinato Target entity description: Joey Spampinato is an American bassist, singer, and songwriter best known as a founding member of the rock band NRBQ and for his work as a sought-after session and touring musician.
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A.
Joey DeLuca
Joey DeLuca is a fictional character from the short-lived 1970s American sitcom "Blansky's Beauties."
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B.
Richie DiMaso
Richie DiMaso is an ambitious and volatile FBI agent in the film "American Hustle" who drives the high-stakes sting operation at the story’s center.
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C.
Johnny Cammareri
Johnny Cammareri is a nervous, indecisive fiancé in the romantic comedy film "Moonstruck," whose actions help catalyze the movie’s central love triangle.
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D.
Larry Fratangelo
Larry Fratangelo is an American percussionist best known for his work with artists like Kid Rock and his band Twisted Brown Trucker, as well as his contributions to funk and rock music.
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E.
Bobby Baccalieri
Bobby Baccalieri is a fictional mobster and loyal, soft-spoken capo in the DiMeo crime family on the television series "The Sopranos."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bassist
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human ⓘ musician ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activeIn |
20th century
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21st century ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Kami Lyle
NERFINISHED
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NRBQ NERFINISHED ⓘ Spampinato Brothers NERFINISHED ⓘ The Incredible Casuals NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
Bonnie Raitt
NERFINISHED
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Chuck Berry NERFINISHED ⓘ Eric Clapton NERFINISHED ⓘ Keith Richards NERFINISHED ⓘ The Incredible Casuals NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Spampinato NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
live performance
ⓘ
music industry ⓘ songwriting ⓘ |
| genre |
R&B
ⓘ
country rock ⓘ power pop ⓘ rock and roll ⓘ rock music ⓘ roots rock ⓘ |
| givenName | Joey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSibling | Johnny Spampinato NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| instrument |
bass guitar
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vocals ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | NRBQ NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Joey Spampinato NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | United States of America ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being a sought-after session musician
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being a touring musician with various artists ⓘ |
| notableWork | recordings with NRBQ ⓘ |
| occupation |
bassist
ⓘ
session musician ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ touring musician ⓘ |
| positionHeld | bassist of NRBQ ⓘ |
| role | founding member of NRBQ ⓘ |
| spouse | Kami Lyle 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: Joey Spampinato Description of subject: Joey Spampinato is an American bassist, singer, and songwriter best known as a founding member of the rock band NRBQ and for his work as a sought-after session and touring musician.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.