James Cotton
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James Cotton was an acclaimed American blues harmonica player, singer, and bandleader known for his powerful playing style and work with artists like Muddy Waters.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| James Cotton canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6660945 — 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: James Cotton Context triple: [Little Walter, influenced, James Cotton]
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A.
Sonny Boy Williamson II
Sonny Boy Williamson II was an influential American blues harmonica player, singer, and songwriter known for his witty lyrics, distinctive playing style, and classic recordings in the 1950s and 1960s.
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B.
Lightnin’ Hopkins
Lightnin’ Hopkins was an influential American country blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter known for his distinctive fingerpicking style and improvisational, storytelling lyrics.
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C.
McKinley Morganfield
McKinley Morganfield was an influential American blues musician better known by his stage name Muddy Waters, often called the "father of modern Chicago blues."
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D.
Earl Hooker
Earl Hooker was an influential American Chicago blues guitarist renowned for his slide guitar work and innovative electric blues style.
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E.
T‑Bone Walker
T-Bone Walker was a pioneering American electric blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter whose innovative style profoundly influenced modern blues and rock music.
- 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: James Cotton Target entity description: James Cotton was an acclaimed American blues harmonica player, singer, and bandleader known for his powerful playing style and work with artists like Muddy Waters.
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A.
Sonny Boy Williamson II
Sonny Boy Williamson II was an influential American blues harmonica player, singer, and songwriter known for his witty lyrics, distinctive playing style, and classic recordings in the 1950s and 1960s.
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B.
Lightnin’ Hopkins
Lightnin’ Hopkins was an influential American country blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter known for his distinctive fingerpicking style and improvisational, storytelling lyrics.
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C.
McKinley Morganfield
McKinley Morganfield was an influential American blues musician better known by his stage name Muddy Waters, often called the "father of modern Chicago blues."
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D.
Earl Hooker
Earl Hooker was an influential American Chicago blues guitarist renowned for his slide guitar work and innovative electric blues style.
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E.
T‑Bone Walker
T-Bone Walker was a pioneering American electric blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter whose innovative style profoundly influenced modern blues and rock music.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bandleader
ⓘ
blues musician ⓘ harmonica player ⓘ human ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 2017 ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1950 ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Buddy Guy
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Howlin' Wolf NERFINISHED ⓘ Johnny Winter NERFINISHED ⓘ Muddy Waters NERFINISHED ⓘ Otis Spann NERFINISHED ⓘ Sonny Boy Williamson II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Austin, Texas, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | pneumonia ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1935-07-01 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2017-03-16 ⓘ |
| familyName | Cotton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | James Henry Cotton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
Chicago blues
ⓘ
blues ⓘ |
| givenName | James ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Sonny Boy Williamson II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| instrument |
harmonica
ⓘ
vocals ⓘ |
| memberOf |
James Cotton Blues Band
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Muddy Waters Band NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAlias | Superharp NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
100% Cotton
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Deep in the Blues NERFINISHED ⓘ High Compression NERFINISHED ⓘ James Cotton Blues Band NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
bandleader
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harmonica player ⓘ musician ⓘ singer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Tunica, Mississippi, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Austin, Texas, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Alligator Records
NERFINISHED
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Antone's Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Vanguard Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Verve Records ⓘ |
| styleOfPlay | powerful harmonica playing ⓘ |
| workFeaturedOn |
Hard Again
NERFINISHED
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I'm Ready NERFINISHED ⓘ King Bee 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: James Cotton Description of subject: James Cotton was an acclaimed American blues harmonica player, singer, and bandleader known for his powerful playing style and work with artists like Muddy Waters.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.