Ry Cooder
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Ry Cooder is an American guitarist, composer, and producer renowned for his slide guitar work and for exploring and popularizing diverse roots and world music traditions.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ry Cooder canonical | 53 |
| Cooder | 1 |
| Larry Campbell | 1 |
| Ryland Peter Cooder | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T590036 — 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: Ry Cooder Context triple: [Van Dyke Parks, associatedAct, Ry Cooder]
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A.
Nils Lofgren
Nils Lofgren is an American rock musician, singer-songwriter, and virtuoso guitarist best known for his solo work and as a longtime member of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band.
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B.
Steven Van Zandt
Steven Van Zandt is an American musician, songwriter, producer, and actor best known as a longtime guitarist in Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band and for his role as Silvio Dante on the TV series The Sopranos.
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C.
Roy Ayers
Roy Ayers is an American vibraphonist, singer, and composer widely regarded as a pioneer of jazz-funk and acid jazz, known for his smooth grooves and influential 1970s recordings.
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D.
George Benson
George Benson is an American jazz and R&B guitarist and singer renowned for his smooth style, virtuosic playing, and crossover hits like "Give Me the Night."
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E.
Jackson Browne
Jackson Browne is an American singer-songwriter known for his introspective lyrics and influential contributions to the 1970s soft rock and folk-rock genres.
- 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: Ry Cooder Target entity description: Ry Cooder is an American guitarist, composer, and producer renowned for his slide guitar work and for exploring and popularizing diverse roots and world music traditions.
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A.
Nils Lofgren
Nils Lofgren is an American rock musician, singer-songwriter, and virtuoso guitarist best known for his solo work and as a longtime member of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band.
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B.
Steven Van Zandt
Steven Van Zandt is an American musician, songwriter, producer, and actor best known as a longtime guitarist in Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band and for his role as Silvio Dante on the TV series The Sopranos.
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C.
Roy Ayers
Roy Ayers is an American vibraphonist, singer, and composer widely regarded as a pioneer of jazz-funk and acid jazz, known for his smooth grooves and influential 1970s recordings.
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D.
George Benson
George Benson is an American jazz and R&B guitarist and singer renowned for his smooth style, virtuosic playing, and crossover hits like "Give Me the Night."
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E.
Jackson Browne
Jackson Browne is an American singer-songwriter known for his introspective lyrics and influential contributions to the 1970s soft rock and folk-rock genres.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
composer
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film score composer ⓘ guitarist ⓘ human ⓘ record producer ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Ali Farka Touré
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Buena Vista Social Club ⓘ Captain Beefheart ⓘ Flaco Jiménez ⓘ John Hiatt ⓘ Nick Lowe ⓘ Taj Mahal ⓘ The Rolling Stones ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Grammy Award ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1947-03-15 ⓘ |
| familyName |
Ry Cooder
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Cooder
|
| fullName |
Ry Cooder
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Ryland Peter Cooder
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| genre |
Americana
ⓘ
Tex-Mex ⓘ blues ⓘ folk rock ⓘ roots rock ⓘ world music ⓘ |
| givenName |
Leland
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surface form:
Ryland
|
| instrument |
guitar
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mandolin ⓘ slide guitar ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| movement | roots revival ⓘ |
| notableFor |
exploring roots music traditions
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popularizing world music collaborations ⓘ slide guitar work ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Bop Till You Drop
ⓘ
Buena Vista Social Club ⓘ
surface form:
Buena Vista Social Club (album)
Chicken Skin Music ⓘ Chavez Ravine ⓘ
surface form:
Chávez Ravine
Into the Purple Valley ⓘ Paris, Texas (film score) ⓘ Ry Cooder (1970 album) ⓘ |
| occupation |
film composer
ⓘ
musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Los Angeles, California, United States of America
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surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
|
| recordLabel |
Nonesuch Records
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Reprise Records ⓘ Warner Bros. Records ⓘ |
| residence | California, United States ⓘ |
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: Ry Cooder Description of subject: Ry Cooder is an American guitarist, composer, and producer renowned for his slide guitar work and for exploring and popularizing diverse roots and world music traditions.
Referenced by (56)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.