Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions
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Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions was a 1960s jug band from Palo Alto, California, best known as a precursor to the Grateful Dead and for featuring several of its future members.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions canonical | 2 |
| Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions (live album) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6218295 — 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: Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions Context triple: [Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, associatedAct, Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions]
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A.
Uptown Special
Uptown Special is a 2015 funk, soul, and pop-influenced studio album by producer Mark Ronson, best known for featuring the hit single "Uptown Funk" with Bruno Mars.
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B.
Mama Said
"Mama Said" is a 1991 rock album by American musician Lenny Kravitz that blends classic rock, soul, and funk influences and includes the hit single "It Ain't Over 'til It's Over."
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C.
Papa's Got a Brand New Bag
"Papa's Got a Brand New Bag" is a groundbreaking 1965 funk song by James Brown that is widely credited with helping to define the funk genre and reshape popular music.
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D.
Stompin’ at the Savoy
"Stompin’ at the Savoy" is a classic swing-era jazz standard, closely associated with the Harlem Savoy Ballroom and famed for its infectious rhythm and enduring popularity among big band and jazz ensembles.
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E.
Mama Tried
"Mama Tried" is a classic 1968 country song by Merle Haggard that reflects on regret and personal responsibility from the perspective of an imprisoned man.
- 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: Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions Target entity description: Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions was a 1960s jug band from Palo Alto, California, best known as a precursor to the Grateful Dead and for featuring several of its future members.
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A.
Uptown Special
Uptown Special is a 2015 funk, soul, and pop-influenced studio album by producer Mark Ronson, best known for featuring the hit single "Uptown Funk" with Bruno Mars.
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B.
Mama Said
"Mama Said" is a 1991 rock album by American musician Lenny Kravitz that blends classic rock, soul, and funk influences and includes the hit single "It Ain't Over 'til It's Over."
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C.
Papa's Got a Brand New Bag
"Papa's Got a Brand New Bag" is a groundbreaking 1965 funk song by James Brown that is widely credited with helping to define the funk genre and reshape popular music.
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D.
Stompin’ at the Savoy
"Stompin’ at the Savoy" is a classic swing-era jazz standard, closely associated with the Harlem Savoy Ballroom and famed for its infectious rhythm and enduring popularity among big band and jazz ensembles.
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E.
Mama Tried
"Mama Tried" is a classic 1968 country song by Merle Haggard that reflects on regret and personal responsibility from the perspective of an imprisoned man.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
jug band
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musical group ⓘ |
| activeInDecade | 1960s ⓘ |
| associatedBand | Grateful Dead ⓘ |
| basedIn | Palo Alto, California ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| disbandedIn | 1965 ⓘ |
| formedIn | 1964 ⓘ |
| genre |
blues
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folk ⓘ jug band music ⓘ |
| hasLiveRecordingFrom | 1964 ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Bob Weir
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Dave Parker ⓘ Jerry Garcia ⓘ Michael Garbett ⓘ Ron "Pigpen" McKernan ⓘ Tom Stone ⓘ |
| influenced | Grateful Dead ⓘ |
| locationOfFormation | Palo Alto, California ⓘ |
| musicalStyle |
acoustic
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traditional jug band arrangements ⓘ |
| notableAs | precursor to the Grateful Dead ⓘ |
| notableFor | featuring future members of the Grateful Dead ⓘ |
| notableMemberLaterJoined | Grateful Dead ⓘ |
| performedAt |
Palo Alto, California
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The Tangent (Palo Alto coffeehouse) ⓘ |
| predecessorOf | Grateful Dead ⓘ |
| recordingReleasedAs |
Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions (live album)
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linked to:
Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions
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| recordLabel | Grateful Dead Records ⓘ |
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: Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions Description of subject: Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions was a 1960s jug band from Palo Alto, California, best known as a precursor to the Grateful Dead and for featuring several of its future members.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions
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recordingReleasedAs
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Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions (live album)
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linked to: Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions