Jimmie Vaughan
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Jimmie Vaughan is an American blues-rock guitarist and singer best known as a founding member of The Fabulous Thunderbirds and a key figure in the Texas blues scene.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jimmie Vaughan canonical | 7 |
| Jimmie Lawrence Vaughan | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1309625 — 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: Jimmie Vaughan Context triple: [Stevie Ray Vaughan, sibling, Jimmie Vaughan]
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A.
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Stevie Ray Vaughan was a highly influential American blues-rock guitarist and singer known for his fiery playing style, soulful tone, and role in revitalizing blues music in the 1980s.
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B.
Jim James
Jim James is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist best known as the frontman of the rock band My Morning Jacket.
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C.
Al Kooper
Al Kooper is an American musician, songwriter, and producer best known for his influential session work with Bob Dylan, founding role in Blood, Sweat & Tears, and contributions to classic rock recordings of the 1960s and 1970s.
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D.
Eric Johnson
Eric Johnson is an American politician and attorney who has served as the mayor of Dallas, Texas, leading the city through issues of urban development, public safety, and economic growth.
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E.
Buddy Guy
Buddy Guy is a legendary American blues guitarist and singer known for his fiery playing style, showmanship, and major influence on rock and modern electric blues.
- 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: Jimmie Vaughan Target entity description: Jimmie Vaughan is an American blues-rock guitarist and singer best known as a founding member of The Fabulous Thunderbirds and a key figure in the Texas blues scene.
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A.
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Stevie Ray Vaughan was a highly influential American blues-rock guitarist and singer known for his fiery playing style, soulful tone, and role in revitalizing blues music in the 1980s.
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B.
Jim James
Jim James is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist best known as the frontman of the rock band My Morning Jacket.
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C.
Al Kooper
Al Kooper is an American musician, songwriter, and producer best known for his influential session work with Bob Dylan, founding role in Blood, Sweat & Tears, and contributions to classic rock recordings of the 1960s and 1970s.
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D.
Eric Johnson
Eric Johnson is an American politician and attorney who has served as the mayor of Dallas, Texas, leading the city through issues of urban development, public safety, and economic growth.
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E.
Buddy Guy
Buddy Guy is a legendary American blues guitarist and singer known for his fiery playing style, showmanship, and major influence on rock and modern electric blues.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Jimmie Vaughan Description of subject: Jimmie Vaughan is an American blues-rock guitarist and singer best known as a founding member of The Fabulous Thunderbirds and a key figure in the Texas blues scene.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Jimmie Lawrence Vaughan