Rickey Medlocke
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Rickey Medlocke is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter best known as a longtime member of the Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd and as the founder of Blackfoot.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Rickey Medlocke canonical | 8 |
| Rickey | 1 |
| Rickey Lynn Medlocke | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5530204 — 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: Rickey Medlocke Context triple: [Lynyrd Skynyrd, hasPart, Rickey Medlocke]
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A.
Hank Booth
Hank Booth is a recurring character on the television series "Bones," known as Seeley Booth's grandfather and a former Army veteran.
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B.
Rickey Thompson
Rickey Thompson is an American actor, comedian, and social media personality known for his energetic online videos and roles in television series.
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C.
Mickey Rogers
Mickey Rogers is an alternative spelling or nickname form of the name Michael Rogers, typically referring to the same individual.
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D.
Bumpy Johnson
Bumpy Johnson was a notorious mid-20th-century Harlem crime boss known for his influence over the neighborhood’s underworld and connections to the Italian Mafia.
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E.
Allen Gamble
Allen Gamble is a mild-mannered, desk-bound NYPD detective portrayed by Will Ferrell in the action-comedy film "The Other Guys."
- 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: Rickey Medlocke Target entity description: Rickey Medlocke is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter best known as a longtime member of the Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd and as the founder of Blackfoot.
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A.
Hank Booth
Hank Booth is a recurring character on the television series "Bones," known as Seeley Booth's grandfather and a former Army veteran.
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B.
Rickey Thompson
Rickey Thompson is an American actor, comedian, and social media personality known for his energetic online videos and roles in television series.
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C.
Mickey Rogers
Mickey Rogers is an alternative spelling or nickname form of the name Michael Rogers, typically referring to the same individual.
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D.
Bumpy Johnson
Bumpy Johnson was a notorious mid-20th-century Harlem crime boss known for his influence over the neighborhood’s underworld and connections to the Italian Mafia.
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E.
Allen Gamble
Allen Gamble is a mild-mannered, desk-bound NYPD detective portrayed by Will Ferrell in the action-comedy film "The Other Guys."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
guitarist
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human ⓘ musician ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1960s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Blackfoot
ⓘ
Lynyrd Skynyrd ⓘ Shorty Medlocke ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1950-02-17 ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Native American descent ⓘ |
| familyName | Medlocke ⓘ |
| founderOf | Blackfoot ⓘ |
| fullName |
Rickey Lynn Medlocke
ⓘ
linked to:
Rickey Medlocke
|
| genre |
Southern rock
ⓘ
blues rock ⓘ country rock ⓘ hard rock ⓘ |
| givenName |
Rickey
ⓘ
linked to:
Rickey Medlocke
|
| instrument |
banjo
ⓘ
guitar ⓘ vocals ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Blackfoot
ⓘ
Lynyrd Skynyrd ⓘ |
| notableAlbum |
Marauder
ⓘ
Strikes ⓘ Tomcattin' ⓘ |
| notableRole |
lead guitarist of Lynyrd Skynyrd
ⓘ
vocalist and guitarist of Blackfoot ⓘ |
| notableSong |
Gimme Back My Bullets (as performer with Lynyrd Skynyrd)
ⓘ
linked to:
Gimme Back My Bullets
Highway Song ⓘ Sweet Home Alabama (as performer with Lynyrd Skynyrd) ⓘ
linked to:
Sweet Home Alabama
Train, Train ⓘ |
| notableWork |
founding of Blackfoot
ⓘ
membership in Lynyrd Skynyrd ⓘ |
| occupation |
bandleader
ⓘ
guitarist ⓘ recording artist ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Jacksonville, Florida, United States
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linked to:
Jacksonville, Florida
|
| recordLabel |
Atco Records
ⓘ
Atlantic Records ⓘ Epic Records ⓘ |
| residence | Florida, 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: Rickey Medlocke Description of subject: Rickey Medlocke is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter best known as a longtime member of the Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd and as the founder of Blackfoot.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Rickey Medlocke
linked to: Rickey Medlocke