Jordan Rudess – keyboards
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Jordan Rudess is an American keyboardist and composer best known as the longtime virtuoso keyboard player for the progressive metal band Dream Theater.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jordan Rudess | 1 |
| Jordan Rudess – keyboards canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8544351 — 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: Jordan Rudess – keyboards Context triple: [Dream Theater, hasInstrumentRole, Jordan Rudess – keyboards]
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A.
John Petrucci
John Petrucci is an American guitarist best known as a founding member and primary songwriter of the progressive metal band Dream Theater, renowned for his technical virtuosity and complex compositions.
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B.
Adrian Belew
Adrian Belew is an innovative American guitarist, singer, and songwriter best known for his experimental work with King Crimson and numerous other rock and avant-garde artists.
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C.
Dave Weckl
Dave Weckl is an acclaimed American jazz fusion drummer renowned for his virtuosic technique and influential work with the Chick Corea Elektric Band and his own ensembles.
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D.
Billy Sheehan
Billy Sheehan is a virtuoso American bassist known for his technically advanced playing and work with bands like Mr. Big, Talas, and David Lee Roth.
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E.
Trevor Rabin
Trevor Rabin is a South African musician and composer best known as the former guitarist of the rock band Yes and as a prolific film score composer.
- 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: Jordan Rudess – keyboards Target entity description: Jordan Rudess is an American keyboardist and composer best known as the longtime virtuoso keyboard player for the progressive metal band Dream Theater.
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A.
John Petrucci
John Petrucci is an American guitarist best known as a founding member and primary songwriter of the progressive metal band Dream Theater, renowned for his technical virtuosity and complex compositions.
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B.
Adrian Belew
Adrian Belew is an innovative American guitarist, singer, and songwriter best known for his experimental work with King Crimson and numerous other rock and avant-garde artists.
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C.
Dave Weckl
Dave Weckl is an acclaimed American jazz fusion drummer renowned for his virtuosic technique and influential work with the Chick Corea Elektric Band and his own ensembles.
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D.
Billy Sheehan
Billy Sheehan is a virtuoso American bassist known for his technically advanced playing and work with bands like Mr. Big, Talas, and David Lee Roth.
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E.
Trevor Rabin
Trevor Rabin is a South African musician and composer best known as the former guitarist of the rock band Yes and as a prolific film score composer.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (62)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
composer
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human ⓘ keyboardist ⓘ musician ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Dixie Dregs
NERFINISHED
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Dream Theater NERFINISHED ⓘ John Petrucci NERFINISHED ⓘ LTE3 NERFINISHED ⓘ Liquid Tension Experiment NERFINISHED ⓘ Mike Portnoy NERFINISHED ⓘ Rod Morgenstein NERFINISHED ⓘ Tony Levin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1956-11-04 ⓘ |
| developed | music apps for iOS ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Juilliard School (pre-college division) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Dream Theater NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Rudess NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| founded | Wizdom Music NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Jordan Charles Rudess NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
instrumental rock
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progressive metal ⓘ progressive rock ⓘ |
| givenName | Jordan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| instrument |
continuum fingerboard
NERFINISHED
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iPad NERFINISHED ⓘ keyboards ⓘ piano ⓘ synthesizer ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Dream Theater
NERFINISHED
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LTE ⓘ LTE3 ⓘ Liquid Tension Experiment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
longtime keyboardist of Dream Theater
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use of advanced music technology ⓘ virtuoso keyboard playing ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Dramatic Turn of Events (as member of Dream Theater)
NERFINISHED
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Black Clouds & Silver Linings (as member of Dream Theater) NERFINISHED ⓘ Dream Theater (2013 album, as member of Dream Theater) NERFINISHED ⓘ Explorations (solo album) NERFINISHED ⓘ Feeding the Wheel (solo album) NERFINISHED ⓘ LTE3 (2021 album) NERFINISHED ⓘ Liquid Tension Experiment (1998 album) NERFINISHED ⓘ Liquid Tension Experiment 2 (1999 album) NERFINISHED ⓘ Listen (solo album) NERFINISHED ⓘ Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory (as member of Dream Theater) NERFINISHED ⓘ Octavarium (as member of Dream Theater) ⓘ Rhythm of Time (solo album) NERFINISHED ⓘ Scenes from a Memory (as member of Dream Theater) NERFINISHED ⓘ Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence (as member of Dream Theater) ⓘ Systematic Chaos (as member of Dream Theater) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Astonishing (as member of Dream Theater) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Road Home (solo album) NERFINISHED ⓘ Train of Thought (as member of Dream Theater) NERFINISHED ⓘ Wired for Madness (solo album) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
composer
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keyboardist ⓘ record producer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | New York City ⓘ |
| residence | New York (state) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| website | https://www.jordanrudess.com/ ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Jordan Rudess – keyboards Description of subject: Jordan Rudess is an American keyboardist and composer best known as the longtime virtuoso keyboard player for the progressive metal band Dream Theater.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Jordan Rudess