Tommy Shannon
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Tommy Shannon is an American bass guitarist best known for his work with blues-rock legend Stevie Ray Vaughan in the band Double Trouble.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tommy Shannon canonical | 20 |
| Tommy Shannon – bass | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6501878 — 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: Tommy Shannon Context triple: [Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble, hasMember, Tommy Shannon]
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A.
Tommy Noonan
Tommy Noonan was an American film and television actor and comedian known for his character roles in 1950s Hollywood movies.
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B.
Curtis Stigers
Curtis Stigers is an American jazz and soul-influenced singer, saxophonist, and songwriter known for his early 1990s pop hits and later critically acclaimed jazz recordings.
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C.
Tommy Cash
Tommy Cash is an Estonian rapper and artist known for his provocative music, surreal visuals, and eccentric public persona.
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D.
Tommy Hyatt
Tommy Hyatt is a young boy who appears as the son of the title character in the American sitcom "Alice."
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E.
Tommy Griffin
Tommy Griffin is an American former basketball player and coach best known as the father of NBA star Blake Griffin.
- 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: Tommy Shannon Target entity description: Tommy Shannon is an American bass guitarist best known for his work with blues-rock legend Stevie Ray Vaughan in the band Double Trouble.
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A.
Tommy Noonan
Tommy Noonan was an American film and television actor and comedian known for his character roles in 1950s Hollywood movies.
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B.
Curtis Stigers
Curtis Stigers is an American jazz and soul-influenced singer, saxophonist, and songwriter known for his early 1990s pop hits and later critically acclaimed jazz recordings.
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C.
Tommy Cash
Tommy Cash is an Estonian rapper and artist known for his provocative music, surreal visuals, and eccentric public persona.
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D.
Tommy Hyatt
Tommy Hyatt is a young boy who appears as the son of the title character in the American sitcom "Alice."
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E.
Tommy Griffin
Tommy Griffin is an American former basketball player and coach best known as the father of NBA star Blake Griffin.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bass guitarist
ⓘ
human ⓘ musician ⓘ |
| activeIn |
20th century
ⓘ
21st century ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Arc Angels
ⓘ
Chris Layton ⓘ Double Trouble ⓘ Doyle Bramhall II ⓘ
linked to:
Doyle Bramhall
Johnny Winter ⓘ Stevie Ray Vaughan ⓘ Storyville ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
Chris Layton
ⓘ
Reese Wynans ⓘ Stevie Ray Vaughan ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Shannon ⓘ |
| genre |
Texas blues
ⓘ
blues rock ⓘ electric blues ⓘ rock ⓘ |
| givenName | Tommy ⓘ |
| instrument | bass guitar ⓘ |
| memberOf | Double Trouble ⓘ |
| name | Tommy Shannon ⓘ |
| notableEvent | member of Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble during 1980s ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Couldn’t Stand the Weather
ⓘ
linked to:
Couldn't Stand the Weather
Double Trouble ⓘ In Step ⓘ Live Alive ⓘ Soul to Soul ⓘ Texas Flood ⓘ The Sky Is Crying ⓘ |
| occupation |
bass guitarist
ⓘ
songwriter ⓘ |
| partOf | Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Austin, Texas
ⓘ
linked to:
City of Austin
|
| recordLabel | Epic 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: Tommy Shannon Description of subject: Tommy Shannon is an American bass guitarist best known for his work with blues-rock legend Stevie Ray Vaughan in the band Double Trouble.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Chris Layton – drums
linked to: Tommy Shannon
subject linked to:
album "Second Winter"
subject linked to:
album "Texas Flood"