Dan Healy
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Dan Healy is an American audio engineer and producer best known for his long association with the Grateful Dead, helping shape their distinctive live and studio sound.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dan Healy canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5920143 — 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: Dan Healy Context triple: [Anthem of the Sun, producer, Dan Healy]
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A.
Brian Kavanagh
Brian Kavanagh is a film editor best known for his work on notable Australian and international films, including the drama "The Devil's Playground."
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B.
Kevin O'Connor
Kevin O'Connor is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and former CEO of the online advertising company DoubleClick.
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C.
John Doherty
John Doherty is known as the husband of American actress Michael Learned, famed for her role as Olivia Walton on the television series "The Waltons."
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D.
Kevin Tighe
Kevin Tighe is an American actor best known for his role as firefighter-paramedic Roy DeSoto on the television series "Emergency!" and for numerous character roles in film and television.
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E.
Dan O'Herlihy
Dan O'Herlihy was an Irish-born actor known for his distinguished character roles in film and television, including an Academy Award–nominated performance in "Adventures of Robinson Crusoe" and memorable parts in movies like "RoboCop" and "Halloween III: Season of the Witch."
- 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: Dan Healy Target entity description: Dan Healy is an American audio engineer and producer best known for his long association with the Grateful Dead, helping shape their distinctive live and studio sound.
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A.
Brian Kavanagh
Brian Kavanagh is a film editor best known for his work on notable Australian and international films, including the drama "The Devil's Playground."
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B.
Kevin O'Connor
Kevin O'Connor is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and former CEO of the online advertising company DoubleClick.
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C.
John Doherty
John Doherty is known as the husband of American actress Michael Learned, famed for her role as Olivia Walton on the television series "The Waltons."
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D.
Kevin Tighe
Kevin Tighe is an American actor best known for his role as firefighter-paramedic Roy DeSoto on the television series "Emergency!" and for numerous character roles in film and television.
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E.
Dan O'Herlihy
Dan O'Herlihy was an Irish-born actor known for his distinguished character roles in film and television, including an Academy Award–nominated performance in "Adventures of Robinson Crusoe" and memorable parts in movies like "RoboCop" and "Halloween III: Season of the Witch."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
audio engineer
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person ⓘ record producer ⓘ |
| activeIn | 20th century ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Grateful Dead NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| contributedTo |
development of the Grateful Dead's concert sound system
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live sound mixing techniques for the Grateful Dead ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | Grateful Dead (touring and recording) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
live sound engineering
ⓘ
music production ⓘ |
| genre |
psychedelic rock
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rock music ⓘ |
| industry | music industry ⓘ |
| influenced | live sound engineering practices in rock music ⓘ |
| knownFor |
shaping the Grateful Dead's live sound
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shaping the Grateful Dead's studio sound ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | work with the Grateful Dead ⓘ |
| notableWorkContext | American rock concerts ⓘ |
| occupation |
audio engineer
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record producer ⓘ sound designer ⓘ |
| role | front-of-house engineer for the Grateful Dead ⓘ |
| workedWith | Grateful Dead 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: Dan Healy Description of subject: Dan Healy is an American audio engineer and producer best known for his long association with the Grateful Dead, helping shape their distinctive live and studio sound.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.