Magic Sam
E143524
Magic Sam was an influential American Chicago blues guitarist and singer known for his soulful vocals, stinging guitar tone, and modern West Side sound.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Magic Sam canonical | 45 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1249425 — 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: Magic Sam Context triple: [Chicago blues, notableArtist, Magic Sam]
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A.
Moses the Black
Moses the Black was a 4th-century Ethiopian desert monk and former bandit who became a renowned Christian ascetic and saint among the Desert Fathers.
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B.
Ter Sami
Ter Sami is a critically endangered Uralic language traditionally spoken by a small Sami community on the Kola Peninsula in northwestern Russia.
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C.
Sycamore Sam
Sycamore Sam is the costumed mascot representing Indiana State University's athletic teams, especially the men's basketball program.
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D.
Mr. Man
"Mr. Man" is a song by Alicia Keys from her debut studio album "Songs in A Minor."
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E.
Sammy
Sammy is the owl mascot of Rice University, known for representing the school's athletic teams and spirit.
- 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: Magic Sam Target entity description: Magic Sam was an influential American Chicago blues guitarist and singer known for his soulful vocals, stinging guitar tone, and modern West Side sound.
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A.
Moses the Black
Moses the Black was a 4th-century Ethiopian desert monk and former bandit who became a renowned Christian ascetic and saint among the Desert Fathers.
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B.
Ter Sami
Ter Sami is a critically endangered Uralic language traditionally spoken by a small Sami community on the Kola Peninsula in northwestern Russia.
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C.
Sycamore Sam
Sycamore Sam is the costumed mascot representing Indiana State University's athletic teams, especially the men's basketball program.
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D.
Mr. Man
"Mr. Man" is a song by Alicia Keys from her debut studio album "Songs in A Minor."
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E.
Sammy
Sammy is the owl mascot of Rice University, known for representing the school's athletic teams and spirit.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Magic Sam Description of subject: Magic Sam was an influential American Chicago blues guitarist and singer known for his soulful vocals, stinging guitar tone, and modern West Side sound.
Referenced by (45)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
album "West Side Soul"
subject linked to:
album "West Side Soul"
subject linked to:
album "West Side Soul"
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album "Black Magic"
subject linked to:
album "Black Magic"
subject linked to:
album "Black Magic"
subject linked to:
album "Black Magic"
subject linked to:
Restvale Cemetery, Alsip, Illinois, United States
subject linked to:
"All Your Love"
subject linked to:
"All Your Love"
subject linked to:
"All Your Love"
subject linked to:
"All Your Love"
subject linked to:
"All Your Love"
subject linked to:
"All Your Love"
subject linked to:
"All Your Love"
subject linked to:
"Easy Baby"
subject linked to:
"Easy Baby"
subject linked to:
"Easy Baby"
subject linked to:
"Easy Baby"
subject linked to:
"Easy Baby"
subject linked to:
"Easy Baby"
subject linked to:
"Looking Good"
subject linked to:
"Looking Good"
subject linked to:
"Looking Good"
subject linked to:
"Looking Good"
subject linked to:
"Looking Good"
subject linked to:
"Looking Good"