Nicolette Larson
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Nicolette Larson was an American pop and country-rock singer best known for her 1978 hit cover of Neil Young’s “Lotta Love” and her collaborations with prominent West Coast rock artists.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nicolette Larson canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5281133 — 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: Nicolette Larson Context triple: [Christopher Cross, associatedAct, Nicolette Larson]
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A.
Molly Jensen
Molly Jensen is a central character in the romantic fantasy film "Ghost," known as the grieving artist whose love transcends death.
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B.
Christine Olsen
Christine Olsen is an Australian film producer best known for her work on the acclaimed drama "Rabbit-Proof Fence."
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C.
Heather Wahlquist
Heather Wahlquist is an American actress and screenwriter known for her collaborations with filmmaker Nick Cassavetes, including roles in films such as "Alpha Dog."
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D.
Beth Johanssen
Beth Johanssen is a brilliant young NASA systems operator and communications specialist who is part of the Ares 3 crew in Andy Weir’s science fiction novel "The Martian."
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E.
Nicole Shanahan
Nicole Shanahan is an American attorney, legal tech entrepreneur, and philanthropist known for founding the patent management company ClearAccessIP and for her high-profile marriage to Google co-founder Sergey Brin.
- 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: Nicolette Larson Target entity description: Nicolette Larson was an American pop and country-rock singer best known for her 1978 hit cover of Neil Young’s “Lotta Love” and her collaborations with prominent West Coast rock artists.
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A.
Molly Jensen
Molly Jensen is a central character in the romantic fantasy film "Ghost," known as the grieving artist whose love transcends death.
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B.
Christine Olsen
Christine Olsen is an Australian film producer best known for her work on the acclaimed drama "Rabbit-Proof Fence."
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C.
Heather Wahlquist
Heather Wahlquist is an American actress and screenwriter known for her collaborations with filmmaker Nick Cassavetes, including roles in films such as "Alpha Dog."
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D.
Beth Johanssen
Beth Johanssen is a brilliant young NASA systems operator and communications specialist who is part of the Ares 3 crew in Andy Weir’s science fiction novel "The Martian."
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E.
Nicole Shanahan
Nicole Shanahan is an American attorney, legal tech entrepreneur, and philanthropist known for founding the patent management company ClearAccessIP and for her high-profile marriage to Google co-founder Sergey Brin.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
recording artist ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1990s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1970s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Doobie Brothers NERFINISHED ⓘ Emmylou Harris NERFINISHED ⓘ Hoyt Axton NERFINISHED ⓘ Linda Ronstadt NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael McDonald NERFINISHED ⓘ Neil Young NERFINISHED ⓘ Nitty Gritty Dirt Band NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | cerebral edema ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| coverOfWorkBy | Neil Young NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1952-07-17 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1997-12-16 ⓘ |
| dateOfRelease | 1978 ⓘ |
| debutAlbum | Nicolette NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | European American ⓘ |
| familyName | Larson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Nicolette Larson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
adult contemporary
ⓘ
country rock ⓘ pop ⓘ soft rock ⓘ |
| givenName | Nicolette NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| instrument | vocals ⓘ |
| label | Warner Bros. Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nominatedFor | Grammy Award for Best New Artist NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableSingle |
Let Me Go, Love
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lotta Love NERFINISHED ⓘ Rhumba Girl NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Lotta Love
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Nicolette NERFINISHED ⓘ Radioland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
backing vocalist
ⓘ
singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Helena, Montana, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Los Angeles, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordedCoverOf | Lotta Love NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
Los Angeles
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surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
|
| workedAs | session musician ⓘ |
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: Nicolette Larson Description of subject: Nicolette Larson was an American pop and country-rock singer best known for her 1978 hit cover of Neil Young’s “Lotta Love” and her collaborations with prominent West Coast rock artists.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.