Hilton Valentine
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Hilton Valentine was an English guitarist best known as the original lead guitarist of the rock band The Animals, contributing the iconic opening riff to their hit "The House of the Rising Sun."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hilton Valentine canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9374870 — 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: Hilton Valentine Context triple: [The Animals, member, Hilton Valentine]
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A.
Reginald Venable
Reginald Venable was the husband of American stage and film actress Fay Bainter.
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B.
Arthur Hilton
Arthur Hilton was a film editor best known for his work on classic Hollywood productions, including the 1946 noir film "The Killers."
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C.
Lionel Houser
Lionel Houser was an American screenwriter known for his work on mid-20th-century Hollywood films, particularly romantic comedies and light-hearted dramas.
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D.
Herbert York
Herbert York was an American physicist and defense scientist who became the first director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and a prominent advocate for nuclear arms control.
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E.
Randolph Crawford
Randolph Crawford is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the Crawford surname.
- 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: Hilton Valentine Target entity description: Hilton Valentine was an English guitarist best known as the original lead guitarist of the rock band The Animals, contributing the iconic opening riff to their hit "The House of the Rising Sun."
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A.
Reginald Venable
Reginald Venable was the husband of American stage and film actress Fay Bainter.
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B.
Arthur Hilton
Arthur Hilton was a film editor best known for his work on classic Hollywood productions, including the 1946 noir film "The Killers."
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C.
Lionel Houser
Lionel Houser was an American screenwriter known for his work on mid-20th-century Hollywood films, particularly romantic comedies and light-hearted dramas.
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D.
Herbert York
Herbert York was an American physicist and defense scientist who became the first director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and a prominent advocate for nuclear arms control.
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E.
Randolph Crawford
Randolph Crawford is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the Crawford surname.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
guitarist
ⓘ
human ⓘ musician ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 2010s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | late 1950s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Skiffledog
ⓘ
The Animals ⓘ The Animals II ⓘ |
| basedIn | Newcastle upon Tyne area during early career ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | unspecified natural causes ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
England
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1943-05-21 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2021-01-29 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English ⓘ |
| familyName | Valentine ⓘ |
| genre |
blues rock
ⓘ
rhythm and blues ⓘ rock music ⓘ |
| givenName | Hilton ⓘ |
| influenced | later rock guitarists ⓘ |
| instrument | guitar ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | The Animals ⓘ |
| movement | British rhythm and blues boom ⓘ |
| name | Hilton Valentine ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being original lead guitarist of The Animals
ⓘ
contributing iconic arpeggiated intro to "The House of the Rising Sun" ⓘ |
| notableSongContribution |
"Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood"
ⓘ
linked to:
Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood
"The House of the Rising Sun" ⓘ
linked to:
“House of the Rising Sun”
"We Gotta Get Out of This Place" ⓘ
linked to:
We Gotta Get Out of This Place
|
| notableWork | opening guitar riff on "The House of the Rising Sun" ⓘ |
| occupation |
guitarist
ⓘ
songwriter ⓘ |
| partOf |
British Invasion era of the 1960s
ⓘ
linked to:
British Invasion
|
| placeOfBirth |
North Shields, Northumberland, England
ⓘ
linked to:
North Shields
|
| placeOfDeath |
Connecticut, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Connecticut
|
| positionHeld | lead guitarist of The Animals ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
ABKCO Records
ⓘ
Decca Records ⓘ MGM Records ⓘ |
| residence |
Connecticut, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Connecticut
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Germaine Valentine ⓘ |
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: Hilton Valentine Description of subject: Hilton Valentine was an English guitarist best known as the original lead guitarist of the rock band The Animals, contributing the iconic opening riff to their hit "The House of the Rising Sun."
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
“House of the Rising Sun”
subject linked to:
I’m Crying
subject linked to:
I’m Crying