Keith Howland
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Keith Howland is an American guitarist best known as the longtime lead guitarist for the rock band Chicago.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Keith Howland canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8484303 — 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: Keith Howland Context triple: [Chicago, member, Keith Howland]
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A.
Ken Howery
Ken Howery is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and co-founder of PayPal who later served as a partner at Founders Fund and as U.S. Ambassador to Sweden.
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B.
John Howell
John Howell is a British Conservative politician who has served as the Member of Parliament for the Henley constituency since winning the 2008 by-election.
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C.
Mark Holbrook
Mark Holbrook is a notable individual whose prominence has led to his recognition as a distinguished bearer of the Holbrook surname.
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D.
Howie Richmond
Howie Richmond was an influential American music publisher and industry executive who co-founded the Songwriters Hall of Fame and helped shape modern music publishing.
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E.
Chris Herold
Chris Herold is a musician best known as a member or collaborator of the band Kingfish.
- 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: Keith Howland Target entity description: Keith Howland is an American guitarist best known as the longtime lead guitarist for the rock band Chicago.
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A.
Ken Howery
Ken Howery is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and co-founder of PayPal who later served as a partner at Founders Fund and as U.S. Ambassador to Sweden.
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B.
John Howell
John Howell is a British Conservative politician who has served as the Member of Parliament for the Henley constituency since winning the 2008 by-election.
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C.
Mark Holbrook
Mark Holbrook is a notable individual whose prominence has led to his recognition as a distinguished bearer of the Holbrook surname.
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D.
Howie Richmond
Howie Richmond was an influential American music publisher and industry executive who co-founded the Songwriters Hall of Fame and helped shape modern music publishing.
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E.
Chris Herold
Chris Herold is a musician best known as a member or collaborator of the band Kingfish.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
guitarist
ⓘ
human ⓘ musician ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 2020s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1990s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Button
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Chicago NERFINISHED ⓘ Howland/Imboden Project NERFINISHED ⓘ Tris Imboden Project NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1964-08-14 ⓘ |
| birthName | Keith Howland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Silver Spring, Maryland, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1964-08-14 ⓘ |
| endTimeOfMembershipInChicago | 2021 ⓘ |
| familyName | Howland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
music performance
ⓘ
songwriting ⓘ |
| genre |
jazz rock
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rock ⓘ soft rock ⓘ |
| givenName | Keith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPartInDiscography |
Chicago studio albums (1995–2021 era)
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Howland/Imboden Project recordings NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| instrument |
guitar
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vocals ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Chicago NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Keith Howland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | United States of America ⓘ |
| notableInstrumentRole | electric guitar ⓘ |
| notableRole | touring guitarist with Chicago ⓘ |
| notableWork | lead guitarist for Chicago ⓘ |
| occupation |
guitarist
ⓘ
singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Silver Spring, Maryland, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | lead guitarist of Chicago ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Chicago Records
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Rhino Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| startTimeOfMembershipInChicago | 1995 ⓘ |
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: Keith Howland Description of subject: Keith Howland is an American guitarist best known as the longtime lead guitarist for the rock band Chicago.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Chicago