Jimmy Rogers
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Jimmy Rogers was an influential American blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter best known for his work with Muddy Waters and his role in shaping Chicago blues.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jimmy Rogers canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4847500 — 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: Jimmy Rogers Context triple: [Ruleville, Mississippi, hasNotableResident, Jimmy Rogers]
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A.
Mitch Mitchell
Mitch Mitchell was an English drummer best known for his innovative, jazz-influenced work with the Jimi Hendrix Experience in the late 1960s.
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B.
Roy Buchanan
Roy Buchanan was an influential American guitarist renowned for his emotive Telecaster tone and pioneering work in blues and rock music.
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C.
Clarence White
Clarence White was an influential American bluegrass and country guitarist best known for his innovative flatpicking style and work with the Kentucky Colonels and The Byrds.
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D.
Jimmy Reed
Jimmy Reed was an influential American blues musician and songwriter whose relaxed, electric guitar-driven style helped popularize Chicago blues in the 1950s and 1960s.
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E.
Slim Whitman
Slim Whitman was an American country and western singer known for his smooth yodeling style and high tenor voice, who gained international fame with hits in the 1950s and beyond.
- 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: Jimmy Rogers Target entity description: Jimmy Rogers was an influential American blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter best known for his work with Muddy Waters and his role in shaping Chicago blues.
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A.
Mitch Mitchell
Mitch Mitchell was an English drummer best known for his innovative, jazz-influenced work with the Jimi Hendrix Experience in the late 1960s.
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B.
Roy Buchanan
Roy Buchanan was an influential American guitarist renowned for his emotive Telecaster tone and pioneering work in blues and rock music.
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C.
Clarence White
Clarence White was an influential American bluegrass and country guitarist best known for his innovative flatpicking style and work with the Kentucky Colonels and The Byrds.
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D.
Jimmy Reed
Jimmy Reed was an influential American blues musician and songwriter whose relaxed, electric guitar-driven style helped popularize Chicago blues in the 1950s and 1960s.
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E.
Slim Whitman
Slim Whitman was an American country and western singer known for his smooth yodeling style and high tenor voice, who gained international fame with hits in the 1950s and beyond.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
blues musician
ⓘ
guitarist ⓘ human ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activeIn | Chicago, Illinois, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
James Lane
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jimmie Rogers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Howlin’ Wolf
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Little Walter NERFINISHED ⓘ Muddy Waters NERFINISHED ⓘ Sonny Boy Williamson II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | James A. Lane NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Oak Woods Cemetery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | colon cancer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1924-06-03 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1997-12-19 ⓘ |
| era | postwar blues era ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Black Americans
ⓘ
surface form:
African American
|
| genre |
Chicago blues
ⓘ
blues ⓘ electric blues ⓘ |
| influenced | Chicago blues guitar style ⓘ |
| instrument |
guitar
ⓘ
vocals ⓘ |
| memberOf | Muddy Waters band NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement | Chicago blues NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Jimmy Rogers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAlbum |
“Blue Bird”
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
“Ludella” NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableRole | pioneer of Chicago blues guitar ⓘ |
| notableWork |
“Chicago Bound”
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
“That’s All Right” NERFINISHED ⓘ “Walking By Myself” NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
guitarist
ⓘ
singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Ruleville, Mississippi, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Chicago, Illinois, United States ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Antone’s Records
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bluebird Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Bullseye Blues NERFINISHED ⓘ Chess Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedWith |
Little Walter
NERFINISHED
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Muddy Waters NERFINISHED ⓘ Otis Spann NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Jimmy Rogers Description of subject: Jimmy Rogers was an influential American blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter best known for his work with Muddy Waters and his role in shaping Chicago blues.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Ruleville, Mississippi