Jim Gilstrap
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Jim Gilstrap is an American soul and R&B singer best known for his session work and for singing the male lead vocal on the theme song to the television show "Good Times."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jim Gilstrap canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1408743 — 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: Jim Gilstrap Context triple: [Good Times, openingThemePerformer, Jim Gilstrap]
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A.
Jim Bridwell
Jim Bridwell was a pioneering American rock climber and mountaineer renowned for his bold first ascents and influential role in the development of modern big-wall climbing in Yosemite.
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B.
Thad Luckinbill
Thad Luckinbill is an American actor and film producer known for roles on "The Young and the Restless" and for producing acclaimed films such as "Sicario."
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C.
Bryan Foy
Bryan Foy was an American film producer and director, known as one of the pioneering figures of early sound cinema at Warner Bros.
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D.
Rob Mullens
Rob Mullens is a college athletics administrator best known for serving as the athletic director at the University of Oregon.
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E.
Jim Kimsey
Jim Kimsey was an American businessman and philanthropist best known as a co-founder and the first CEO of the pioneering internet company AOL.
- 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: Jim Gilstrap Target entity description: Jim Gilstrap is an American soul and R&B singer best known for his session work and for singing the male lead vocal on the theme song to the television show "Good Times."
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A.
Jim Bridwell
Jim Bridwell was a pioneering American rock climber and mountaineer renowned for his bold first ascents and influential role in the development of modern big-wall climbing in Yosemite.
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B.
Thad Luckinbill
Thad Luckinbill is an American actor and film producer known for roles on "The Young and the Restless" and for producing acclaimed films such as "Sicario."
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C.
Bryan Foy
Bryan Foy was an American film producer and director, known as one of the pioneering figures of early sound cinema at Warner Bros.
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D.
Rob Mullens
Rob Mullens is a college athletics administrator best known for serving as the athletic director at the University of Oregon.
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E.
Jim Kimsey
Jim Kimsey was an American businessman and philanthropist best known as a co-founder and the first CEO of the pioneering internet company AOL.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
R&B singer
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human ⓘ session musician ⓘ singer ⓘ soul singer ⓘ |
| activeIn |
20th-century music
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television music ⓘ |
| artisticMedium | vocals ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Good Times
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surface form:
Good Times (TV series)
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
music
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recording industry ⓘ |
| genre |
rhythm and blues
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soul ⓘ |
| hasLeadVocalist | Jim Gilstrap self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| hasRole |
background vocalist
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lead vocalist ⓘ session singer ⓘ |
| knownFor | male lead vocal on the Good Times TV theme song ⓘ |
| languageOfPerformance | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
extensive session work
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television theme song performance ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Good Times
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surface form:
Good Times theme song
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| occupation |
backing vocalist
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session vocalist ⓘ singer ⓘ |
| partOf |
American R&B music scene
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American soul music scene ⓘ |
| typeOfArtist | recording artist ⓘ |
| vocalPerformanceOn |
Good Times
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surface form:
Good Times television theme
|
| workLocation |
United States of America
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surface form:
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: Jim Gilstrap Description of subject: Jim Gilstrap is an American soul and R&B singer best known for his session work and for singing the male lead vocal on the theme song to the television show "Good Times."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Good Times theme song