Michael Carabello
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Michael Carabello is an American percussionist best known as a founding member and conga player of the rock band Santana, contributing to their classic early albums.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Michael Carabello canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6380316 — 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: Michael Carabello Context triple: [Abraxas, includesCompositionBy, Michael Carabello]
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A.
Vincent Schiavelli
Vincent Schiavelli was an American character actor known for his distinctive appearance and memorable supporting roles in films such as "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," "Ghost," and numerous other movies and television shows.
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B.
Michael Bonfiglio
Michael Bonfiglio is an American filmmaker and documentarian known for directing high-profile nonfiction projects, including the HBO documentary series "George Carlin's American Dream."
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C.
Nicholas Musuraca
Nicholas Musuraca was an influential Italian-American cinematographer best known for his atmospheric, shadow-rich visual style that helped define classic film noir.
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D.
Angelo Maggio
Angelo Maggio is a brash, hot-headed Italian-American soldier whose tragic fate and close friendship with the protagonist make him one of the most memorable figures in the World War II drama "From Here to Eternity."
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E.
Dominick Napolitano
Dominick Napolitano was a Brooklyn-based caporegime in the Bonanno crime family, known for his role in the Donnie Brasco undercover FBI operation.
- 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: Michael Carabello Target entity description: Michael Carabello is an American percussionist best known as a founding member and conga player of the rock band Santana, contributing to their classic early albums.
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A.
Vincent Schiavelli
Vincent Schiavelli was an American character actor known for his distinctive appearance and memorable supporting roles in films such as "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," "Ghost," and numerous other movies and television shows.
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B.
Michael Bonfiglio
Michael Bonfiglio is an American filmmaker and documentarian known for directing high-profile nonfiction projects, including the HBO documentary series "George Carlin's American Dream."
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C.
Nicholas Musuraca
Nicholas Musuraca was an influential Italian-American cinematographer best known for his atmospheric, shadow-rich visual style that helped define classic film noir.
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D.
Angelo Maggio
Angelo Maggio is a brash, hot-headed Italian-American soldier whose tragic fate and close friendship with the protagonist make him one of the most memorable figures in the World War II drama "From Here to Eternity."
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E.
Dominick Napolitano
Dominick Napolitano was a Brooklyn-based caporegime in the Bonanno crime family, known for his role in the Donnie Brasco undercover FBI operation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
conga player
ⓘ
human ⓘ musician ⓘ percussionist ⓘ |
| activeIn |
1970s rock scene
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late 1960s rock scene ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Carlos Santana
NERFINISHED
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Santana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
Afro-Cuban rock
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Latin rock ⓘ rock ⓘ |
| instrument |
congas
ⓘ
percussion ⓘ |
| memberOf | Santana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Michael Carabello NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | United States of America ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being a founding member of Santana
ⓘ
contributions to Santana’s early classic albums ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Abraxas
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Santana (1969 album) NERFINISHED ⓘ Santana III NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
musician
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percussionist ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| role | conga player for Santana ⓘ |
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: Michael Carabello Description of subject: Michael Carabello is an American percussionist best known as a founding member and conga player of the rock band Santana, contributing to their classic early albums.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Abraxas
subject surface form:
Abraxas
subject surface form:
Santana III
subject surface form:
Santana