Hubert Sumlin
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Hubert Sumlin was an influential American blues guitarist best known for his innovative, expressive playing as the longtime lead guitarist for Howlin’ Wolf.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hubert Sumlin canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4144535 — 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: Hubert Sumlin Context triple: [Howlin' Wolf, associatedAct, Hubert Sumlin]
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A.
Lowell Fulson
Lowell Fulson was an influential American blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter known for shaping West Coast blues and inspiring later electric blues and R&B artists.
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B.
Memphis Slim
Memphis Slim was an influential American blues pianist, singer, and songwriter known for his sophisticated urban style and major impact on postwar Chicago blues.
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C.
T‑Bone Walker
T-Bone Walker was a pioneering American electric blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter whose innovative style profoundly influenced modern blues and rock music.
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D.
Willie Dixon
Willie Dixon was an influential American blues musician, songwriter, and producer whose work helped define the Chicago blues sound and shaped the development of modern rock and blues music.
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E.
Steve Cropper
Steve Cropper is an American guitarist, songwriter, and producer best known for his influential work at Stax Records and as a key architect of the classic soul and R&B sound of the 1960s.
- 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: Hubert Sumlin Target entity description: Hubert Sumlin was an influential American blues guitarist best known for his innovative, expressive playing as the longtime lead guitarist for Howlin’ Wolf.
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A.
Lowell Fulson
Lowell Fulson was an influential American blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter known for shaping West Coast blues and inspiring later electric blues and R&B artists.
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B.
Memphis Slim
Memphis Slim was an influential American blues pianist, singer, and songwriter known for his sophisticated urban style and major impact on postwar Chicago blues.
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C.
T‑Bone Walker
T-Bone Walker was a pioneering American electric blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter whose innovative style profoundly influenced modern blues and rock music.
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D.
Willie Dixon
Willie Dixon was an influential American blues musician, songwriter, and producer whose work helped define the Chicago blues sound and shaped the development of modern rock and blues music.
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E.
Steve Cropper
Steve Cropper is an American guitarist, songwriter, and producer best known for his influential work at Stax Records and as a key architect of the classic soul and R&B sound of the 1960s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
blues guitarist
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 2011 ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1950 ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Howlin' Wolf
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Muddy Waters NERFINISHED ⓘ Willie Dixon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Blues Music Awards ceremony
ⓘ
surface form:
Blues Music Award
|
| birthDate | 1931-11-16 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Greenwood, Mississippi, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | heart failure ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 2011-12-04 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
Wayne, New Jersey
ⓘ
surface form:
Wayne, New Jersey, United States
|
| familyName |
Kevin Sumlin
ⓘ
surface form:
Sumlin
|
| genre |
Chicago blues
ⓘ
blues ⓘ |
| givenName | Hubert ⓘ |
| hallOfFameInduction |
Blues Hall of Fame
ⓘ
surface form:
Blues Foundation Hall of Fame
Mississippi Musicians Hall of Fame ⓘ |
| influenced |
Carlos Santana
ⓘ
Eric Clapton ⓘ Jimi Hendrix ⓘ Jimmy Page ⓘ Keith Richards ⓘ Robbie Robertson ⓘ Stevie Ray Vaughan ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Delta blues musicians
ⓘ
Howlin' Wolf NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| instrument | guitar ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Howlin' Wolf
ⓘ
surface form:
Howlin' Wolf's band
|
| name | Hubert Sumlin self-link ⓘ |
| nominatedFor | Grammy Award ⓘ |
| notableFor |
expressive guitar style
ⓘ
innovative guitar playing ⓘ Howlin' Wolf ⓘ
surface form:
work with Howlin' Wolf
|
| notableWork |
guitar work on "Killing Floor"
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guitar work on "Smokestack Lightning" ⓘ guitar work on "Spoonful" ⓘ |
| occupation |
guitarist
ⓘ
musician ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Black Top Records
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Chess Records ⓘ Tone-Cool Records ⓘ |
| residence |
Chicago, Illinois, United States
ⓘ
New Jersey, United States ⓘ |
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: Hubert Sumlin Description of subject: Hubert Sumlin was an influential American blues guitarist best known for his innovative, expressive playing as the longtime lead guitarist for Howlin’ Wolf.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.