Nicky Hopkins
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Nicky Hopkins was an English pianist and session musician renowned for his work with major rock acts such as The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, and many others during the 1960s and 1970s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Nicky Hopkins canonical | 18 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4453966 — 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: Nicky Hopkins Context triple: [Plastic Ono Band, hasMember, Nicky Hopkins]
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A.
Johnny Truelove
Johnny Truelove is a fictional young drug dealer and gang leader, loosely based on real-life criminal Jesse James Hollywood, who serves as the central figure in the crime drama film "Alpha Dog."
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B.
Tim Welke
Tim Welke is a former Major League Baseball umpire who served as a longtime crew chief in numerous high-profile games, including the World Series.
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C.
Billy Preston
Billy Preston was an American keyboardist, singer, and songwriter renowned for his work with The Beatles and The Rolling Stones as well as his own hit songs like "Nothing from Nothing" and "Will It Go Round in Circles."
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D.
Leon Russell
Leon Russell was an American musician, songwriter, and producer known for his influential blend of rock, country, gospel, and blues, and for his work both as a solo artist and a sought-after session player.
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E.
Lee Boardman
Lee Boardman is a British actor known for his roles in television dramas such as Rome and Coronation Street.
- 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: Nicky Hopkins Target entity description: Nicky Hopkins was an English pianist and session musician renowned for his work with major rock acts such as The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, and many others during the 1960s and 1970s.
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A.
Johnny Truelove
Johnny Truelove is a fictional young drug dealer and gang leader, loosely based on real-life criminal Jesse James Hollywood, who serves as the central figure in the crime drama film "Alpha Dog."
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B.
Tim Welke
Tim Welke is a former Major League Baseball umpire who served as a longtime crew chief in numerous high-profile games, including the World Series.
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C.
Billy Preston
Billy Preston was an American keyboardist, singer, and songwriter renowned for his work with The Beatles and The Rolling Stones as well as his own hit songs like "Nothing from Nothing" and "Will It Go Round in Circles."
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D.
Leon Russell
Leon Russell was an American musician, songwriter, and producer known for his influential blend of rock, country, gospel, and blues, and for his work both as a solo artist and a sought-after session player.
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E.
Lee Boardman
Lee Boardman is a British actor known for his roles in television dramas such as Rome and Coronation Street.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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musician ⓘ pianist ⓘ session musician ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1994 ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1960 ⓘ |
| birthName | Nicholas Christian Hopkins ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | complications from intestinal surgery ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1944-02-24 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1994-09-06 ⓘ |
| genre |
blues rock
ⓘ
hard rock ⓘ psychedelic rock ⓘ rock ⓘ |
| hasHealthIssue | Crohn's disease ⓘ |
| hasWork |
solo album "No More Changes"
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solo album "The Tin Man Was a Dreamer" ⓘ |
| influenced | rock piano playing style of the late 20th century ⓘ |
| instrument |
keyboards
ⓘ
piano ⓘ |
| name | Nicky Hopkins ⓘ |
| nationality | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | session work with major rock bands in the 1960s and 1970s ⓘ |
| notableWork |
piano on John Lennon song "Imagine" (album sessions contributor)
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piano on The Beatles song "Revolution" ⓘ piano on The Rolling Stones song "Angie" ⓘ piano on The Rolling Stones song "Gimme Shelter" ⓘ piano on The Rolling Stones song "She's a Rainbow" ⓘ piano on The Rolling Stones song "Sympathy for the Devil" ⓘ |
| occupation |
keyboardist
ⓘ
pianist ⓘ session musician ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Perivale, Middlesex, England ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Nashville, Tennessee, United States ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
CBS Records
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Columbia Records ⓘ Warner Bros. Records ⓘ |
| residence |
London, England
ⓘ
Los Angeles, California, United States ⓘ
linked to:
Los Angeles
San Francisco, California, United States ⓘ |
| spouse | Moira Hopkins ⓘ |
| workedWith |
George Harrison
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Jeff Beck ⓘ Jefferson Airplane ⓘ Joe Cocker ⓘ John Lennon ⓘ Quicksilver Messenger Service ⓘ Steve Miller Band ⓘ
linked to:
The Steve Miller Band
The Beatles ⓘ The Kinks ⓘ The Rolling Stones ⓘ The Who ⓘ |
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: Nicky Hopkins Description of subject: Nicky Hopkins was an English pianist and session musician renowned for his work with major rock acts such as The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, and many others during the 1960s and 1970s.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.