Buddy Miles
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Buddy Miles was an American rock and funk drummer, vocalist, and songwriter best known for his work with Jimi Hendrix in Band of Gypsys and his own Buddy Miles Express.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Buddy Miles canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3023083 — 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: Buddy Miles Context triple: [Omaha Central High School, hasAlumni, Buddy Miles]
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A.
Jimmy Cobb
Jimmy Cobb was an American jazz drummer best known for his subtle, swinging work on Miles Davis’s landmark album "Kind of Blue."
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B.
Booker T. Jones
Booker T. Jones is an American multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and record producer best known as the leader of the influential soul band Booker T. & the M.G.'s.
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C.
John McLaughlin
John McLaughlin is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the psychological thriller film "Black Swan."
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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.
Rick James
Rick James was an influential American funk and soul musician best known for hits like "Super Freak" and his flamboyant, provocative style.
- 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: Buddy Miles Target entity description: Buddy Miles was an American rock and funk drummer, vocalist, and songwriter best known for his work with Jimi Hendrix in Band of Gypsys and his own Buddy Miles Express.
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A.
Jimmy Cobb
Jimmy Cobb was an American jazz drummer best known for his subtle, swinging work on Miles Davis’s landmark album "Kind of Blue."
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B.
Booker T. Jones
Booker T. Jones is an American multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and record producer best known as the leader of the influential soul band Booker T. & the M.G.'s.
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C.
John McLaughlin
John McLaughlin is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the psychological thriller film "Black Swan."
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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.
Rick James
Rick James was an influential American funk and soul musician best known for hits like "Super Freak" and his flamboyant, provocative style.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Buddy Miles Description of subject: Buddy Miles was an American rock and funk drummer, vocalist, and songwriter best known for his work with Jimi Hendrix in Band of Gypsys and his own Buddy Miles Express.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.