Paul Butterfield Blues Band
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Paul Butterfield Blues Band was an influential American electric blues and blues-rock group from Chicago, led by harmonica player and singer Paul Butterfield, known for helping popularize urban blues among rock audiences in the 1960s.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Paul Butterfield Blues Band | 5 |
| Paul Butterfield Blues Band canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4372835 — 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: Paul Butterfield Blues Band Context triple: [Rollin' and Tumblin', hasNotableVersionBy, Paul Butterfield Blues Band]
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A.
The Allman Brothers Band
The Allman Brothers Band was a pioneering American rock group known for blending blues, jazz, and country into a distinctive Southern rock sound and for their influential improvisational live performances.
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B.
The Blues Brothers Band
The Blues Brothers Band is a rhythm and blues revival group formed by comedians Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi that became famous through Saturday Night Live performances, hit records, and the 1980 film "The Blues Brothers."
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C.
Booker T. & the M.G.'s
Booker T. & the M.G.'s were a pioneering 1960s instrumental R&B/soul band and influential Stax Records house band known for hits like "Green Onions" and for shaping the sound of Southern soul music.
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D.
Derek Trucks Band
The Derek Trucks Band is a blues-rock and jam band led by slide guitar virtuoso Derek Trucks, known for blending rock, blues, jazz, and world music influences.
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E.
John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers
John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers was a pioneering British blues band led by John Mayall that became famous in the 1960s for launching the careers of several legendary rock and blues musicians, including Eric Clapton.
- 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: Paul Butterfield Blues Band Target entity description: Paul Butterfield Blues Band was an influential American electric blues and blues-rock group from Chicago, led by harmonica player and singer Paul Butterfield, known for helping popularize urban blues among rock audiences in the 1960s.
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A.
The Allman Brothers Band
The Allman Brothers Band was a pioneering American rock group known for blending blues, jazz, and country into a distinctive Southern rock sound and for their influential improvisational live performances.
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B.
The Blues Brothers Band
The Blues Brothers Band is a rhythm and blues revival group formed by comedians Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi that became famous through Saturday Night Live performances, hit records, and the 1980 film "The Blues Brothers."
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C.
Booker T. & the M.G.'s
Booker T. & the M.G.'s were a pioneering 1960s instrumental R&B/soul band and influential Stax Records house band known for hits like "Green Onions" and for shaping the sound of Southern soul music.
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D.
Derek Trucks Band
The Derek Trucks Band is a blues-rock and jam band led by slide guitar virtuoso Derek Trucks, known for blending rock, blues, jazz, and world music influences.
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E.
John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers
John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers was a pioneering British blues band led by John Mayall that became famous in the 1960s for launching the careers of several legendary rock and blues musicians, including Eric Clapton.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
blues-rock band
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electric blues band ⓘ |
| activePeriod | 1960s ⓘ |
| activePeriodStart | 1963 ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Bob Dylan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Elektra Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Elvin Bishop NERFINISHED ⓘ Howlin' Wolf NERFINISHED ⓘ Mike Bloomfield NERFINISHED ⓘ Muddy Waters NERFINISHED ⓘ Paul Butterfield NERFINISHED ⓘ The Electric Flag NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| debutAlbum | The Paul Butterfield Blues Band NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| debutAlbumReleaseYear | 1965 ⓘ |
| genre |
Chicago blues
ⓘ
blues rock ⓘ electric blues ⓘ rock ⓘ |
| hasMusicalStyleElement |
electric Chicago blues sound
ⓘ
extended improvisation ⓘ jazz influences ⓘ |
| influenceOn |
1960s rock musicians
ⓘ
blues-rock genre ⓘ |
| knownFor |
influential harmonica-driven sound
ⓘ
integrating amplified Chicago blues with rock ⓘ popularizing urban blues among rock audiences ⓘ |
| languageOfLyrics | English ⓘ |
| leader | Paul Butterfield NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locationOfFormation | Chicago NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableInstrument | harmonica ⓘ |
| notableMember |
Elvin Bishop
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jerome Arnold NERFINISHED ⓘ Mark Naftalin NERFINISHED ⓘ Mike Bloomfield NERFINISHED ⓘ Paul Butterfield NERFINISHED ⓘ Sam Lay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notablePerformance | Newport Folk Festival 1965 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notablePerformanceWith | Bob Dylan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
East-West
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
In My Own Dream NERFINISHED ⓘ Keep On Moving NERFINISHED ⓘ Resurrection of Pigboy Crabshaw NERFINISHED ⓘ Sometimes I Just Feel Like Smilin' NERFINISHED ⓘ The Paul Butterfield Blues Band NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Elektra Records ⓘ |
| secondAlbum | East-West NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| secondAlbumReleaseYear | 1966 ⓘ |
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: Paul Butterfield Blues Band Description of subject: Paul Butterfield Blues Band was an influential American electric blues and blues-rock group from Chicago, led by harmonica player and singer Paul Butterfield, known for helping popularize urban blues among rock audiences in the 1960s.
Referenced by (8)
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this entity surface form:
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
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The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
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The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
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The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
this entity surface form:
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band