Elmore Brooks
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Elmore Brooks, better known as Elmore James, was an influential American blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter celebrated as the "King of the Slide Guitar."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Elmore Brooks canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6884148 — 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: Elmore Brooks Context triple: [Elmore James, birthName, Elmore Brooks]
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A.
Ed Dorn
Ed Dorn was an American poet associated with the Black Mountain school, known for his incisive, often politically charged verse and his long poem "Gunslinger."
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B.
Vincent Brooks
Vincent Brooks is a retired U.S. Army general best known for his prominent leadership roles during the Iraq War and his later command of U.S. Forces Korea.
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C.
Brian Faulkner
Brian Faulkner was a prominent Northern Irish politician who served as the last Prime Minister of Northern Ireland before the government’s suspension in 1972.
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D.
Glen Tullman
Glen Tullman is an American healthcare technology entrepreneur and executive best known for leading and building major digital health companies, including Allscripts.
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E.
James Bridie
James Bridie was a Scottish playwright and screenwriter, noted for his influential role in 20th-century British theatre and his collaborations on several major film adaptations.
- 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: Elmore Brooks Target entity description: Elmore Brooks, better known as Elmore James, was an influential American blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter celebrated as the "King of the Slide Guitar."
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A.
Ed Dorn
Ed Dorn was an American poet associated with the Black Mountain school, known for his incisive, often politically charged verse and his long poem "Gunslinger."
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B.
Vincent Brooks
Vincent Brooks is a retired U.S. Army general best known for his prominent leadership roles during the Iraq War and his later command of U.S. Forces Korea.
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C.
Brian Faulkner
Brian Faulkner was a prominent Northern Irish politician who served as the last Prime Minister of Northern Ireland before the government’s suspension in 1972.
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D.
Glen Tullman
Glen Tullman is an American healthcare technology entrepreneur and executive best known for leading and building major digital health companies, including Allscripts.
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E.
James Bridie
James Bridie was a Scottish playwright and screenwriter, noted for his influential role in 20th-century British theatre and his collaborations on several major film adaptations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
blues musician
ⓘ
human ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1963 ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1930s ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Elmo James NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Homesick James
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Robert Johnson NERFINISHED ⓘ Son House NERFINISHED ⓘ Sonny Boy Williamson II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Burr Oak Cemetery, Alsip, Illinois, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | heart attack ⓘ |
| conflictParticipatedIn | World War II ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1918-01-27 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1963-05-24 ⓘ |
| ethnicity | African American ⓘ |
| genre |
Chicago blues
ⓘ
blues ⓘ electric blues ⓘ |
| influenced |
B. B. King
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Eric Clapton NERFINISHED ⓘ Muddy Waters NERFINISHED ⓘ The Rolling Stones NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedGenre | rock and roll ⓘ |
| instrument |
guitar
ⓘ
vocals ⓘ |
| knownFor |
amplified electric blues style
ⓘ
slide guitar playing ⓘ |
| militaryService | United States Navy ⓘ |
| movement | postwar electric blues ⓘ |
| nickname | King of the Slide Guitar ⓘ |
| notableInstrument | modified Kay hollow-body electric guitar ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Dust My Broom
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
It Hurts Me Too NERFINISHED ⓘ The Sky Is Crying NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
blues guitarist
ⓘ
singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Richland, Holmes County, Mississippi, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Chicago, Illinois, United States ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Chess Records
NERFINISHED
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Meteor Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Modern Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Trumpet Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stageName | Elmore James 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: Elmore Brooks Description of subject: Elmore Brooks, better known as Elmore James, was an influential American blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter celebrated as the "King of the Slide Guitar."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.