Clyde Stubblefield
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Clyde Stubblefield was an American funk drummer best known for his work with James Brown and for creating some of the most sampled drum breaks in music history, including the iconic "Funky Drummer" groove.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Clyde Stubblefield canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9134106 — 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: Clyde Stubblefield Context triple: [Cold Sweat, notableDrummer, Clyde Stubblefield]
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A.
Verdine White
Verdine White is an American bassist best known as a founding member of the legendary R&B and funk band Earth, Wind & Fire.
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B.
Bootsy Collins
Bootsy Collins is an American funk bassist, singer, and songwriter known for his flamboyant style and influential work with James Brown and Parliament-Funkadelic.
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C.
Buddy Miles
Buddy Miles was an American rock and funk drummer, vocalist, and songwriter best known for his work with Jimi Hendrix in Band of Gypsys and his own Buddy Miles Express.
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D.
Eddie Kendricks
Eddie Kendricks was an American singer and founding member of The Temptations, renowned for his distinctive falsetto lead vocals on many of the group's classic Motown hits.
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E.
Lonnie Smith
Lonnie Smith was an American jazz Hammond B-3 organist known for his soulful, groove-oriented playing and contributions to the soul-jazz and hard bop genres.
- 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: Clyde Stubblefield Target entity description: Clyde Stubblefield was an American funk drummer best known for his work with James Brown and for creating some of the most sampled drum breaks in music history, including the iconic "Funky Drummer" groove.
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A.
Verdine White
Verdine White is an American bassist best known as a founding member of the legendary R&B and funk band Earth, Wind & Fire.
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B.
Bootsy Collins
Bootsy Collins is an American funk bassist, singer, and songwriter known for his flamboyant style and influential work with James Brown and Parliament-Funkadelic.
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C.
Buddy Miles
Buddy Miles was an American rock and funk drummer, vocalist, and songwriter best known for his work with Jimi Hendrix in Band of Gypsys and his own Buddy Miles Express.
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D.
Eddie Kendricks
Eddie Kendricks was an American singer and founding member of The Temptations, renowned for his distinctive falsetto lead vocals on many of the group's classic Motown hits.
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E.
Lonnie Smith
Lonnie Smith was an American jazz Hammond B-3 organist known for his soulful, groove-oriented playing and contributions to the soul-jazz and hard bop genres.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
drummer
ⓘ
funk musician ⓘ human ⓘ musician ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1960 ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | The Funky Drummer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Jabo Starks
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
James Brown NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Madison Area Music Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Madison, Wisconsin, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | kidney failure ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1943-04-18 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2017-02-18 ⓘ |
| employer | James Brown NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Black Americans
ⓘ
surface form:
African American
|
| familyName | Stubblefield NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
R&B
ⓘ
funk ⓘ soul ⓘ |
| givenName | Clyde NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| honor | Clyde Stubblefield Day in Madison, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced |
funk drumming
ⓘ
hip hop music ⓘ |
| influencedBy | New Orleans drumming style ⓘ |
| instrument | drum kit ⓘ |
| memberOf | James Brown band NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Clyde Stubblefield NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Funky Drummer drum break
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
being one of the most sampled drummers in history ⓘ syncopated ghost-note–heavy snare style ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Cold Sweat
NERFINISHED
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Funky Drummer NERFINISHED ⓘ I Got The Feelin' NERFINISHED ⓘ Mother Popcorn NERFINISHED ⓘ Revenge of the Funky Drummer NERFINISHED ⓘ Say It Loud – I’m Black and I’m Proud NERFINISHED ⓘ The Original Funky Drummer Breakbeat Album NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
drummer
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musician ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Madison, Wisconsin, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Melting Pot Records
NERFINISHED
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Rhythm and Blues Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Madison, Wisconsin, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Judy Stubblefield 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: Clyde Stubblefield Description of subject: Clyde Stubblefield was an American funk drummer best known for his work with James Brown and for creating some of the most sampled drum breaks in music history, including the iconic "Funky Drummer" groove.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.