Robert Johnson
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Robert Johnson was a pioneering early 20th-century Delta blues guitarist and singer whose influential recordings profoundly shaped the development of blues and rock music.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Robert Johnson canonical | 16 |
| Robert Leroy Johnson | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1249758 — 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: Robert Johnson Context triple: [Blues Hall of Fame, notableInductee, Robert Johnson]
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A.
Elmore James
Elmore James was an influential American blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter, celebrated for his electrifying slide guitar style and lasting impact on Chicago blues and rock music.
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B.
Muddy Waters
Muddy Waters was a pioneering American blues musician whose electrified style helped define Chicago blues and profoundly influenced the development of rock and roll.
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C.
Willie Dixon
Willie Dixon was an influential American blues musician, songwriter, and producer whose work helped define the Chicago blues sound and shaped the development of modern rock and blues music.
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D.
Son House
Son House was an influential American Delta blues singer and guitarist whose emotionally intense performances and slide guitar style deeply shaped the development of blues and inspired later legends like Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters.
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E.
Howlin' Wolf
Howlin' Wolf was a towering American blues singer, guitarist, and harmonica player whose powerful voice and influential recordings helped shape Chicago 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: Robert Johnson Target entity description: Robert Johnson was a pioneering early 20th-century Delta blues guitarist and singer whose influential recordings profoundly shaped the development of blues and rock music.
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A.
Elmore James
Elmore James was an influential American blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter, celebrated for his electrifying slide guitar style and lasting impact on Chicago blues and rock music.
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B.
Muddy Waters
Muddy Waters was a pioneering American blues musician whose electrified style helped define Chicago blues and profoundly influenced the development of rock and roll.
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C.
Willie Dixon
Willie Dixon was an influential American blues musician, songwriter, and producer whose work helped define the Chicago blues sound and shaped the development of modern rock and blues music.
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D.
Son House
Son House was an influential American Delta blues singer and guitarist whose emotionally intense performances and slide guitar style deeply shaped the development of blues and inspired later legends like Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters.
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E.
Howlin' Wolf
Howlin' Wolf was a towering American blues singer, guitarist, and harmonica player whose powerful voice and influential recordings helped shape Chicago blues and rock music.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
blues musician
ⓘ
guitarist ⓘ person ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1938 ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1930 ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Delta blues tradition
ⓘ
North Mississippi Delta ⓘ
surface form:
Mississippi Delta
|
| award | Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1911-05-08 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Hazlehurst, Mississippi
ⓘ
surface form:
Hazlehurst, Mississippi, United States
|
| burialPlace | Greenwood, Mississippi, United States ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | unknown, widely speculated poisoning ⓘ |
| citizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| deathDate | 1938-08-16 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | near Greenwood, Mississippi, United States ⓘ |
| familyName | Johnson ⓘ |
| fullName |
Robert Johnson
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Robert Leroy Johnson
|
| genre |
Blues
ⓘ
surface form:
Delta blues
blues ⓘ |
| givenName | Robert ⓘ |
| influenced |
Bob Dylan
ⓘ
Eric Clapton ⓘ Howlin' Wolf ⓘ Jimi Hendrix ⓘ Keith Richards ⓘ Led Zeppelin ⓘ Muddy Waters ⓘ The Rolling Stones ⓘ |
| instrument |
guitar
ⓘ
vocals ⓘ |
| legacy | pioneering influence on blues and rock music ⓘ |
| mythology | associated with legend of selling his soul at the crossroads ⓘ |
| notableRecordingSession |
Dallas, Texas, June 1937
ⓘ
San Antonio, Texas, November 1936 ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Cross Road Blues
ⓘ
Hellhound on My Trail ⓘ Dust My Broom ⓘ
surface form:
I Believe I’ll Dust My Broom
Love in Vain ⓘ Sweet Home Chicago ⓘ |
| numberOfIssuedSongs | 29 ⓘ |
| numberOfKnownRecordings | 29 ⓘ |
| numberOfSurvivingTakes | 42 ⓘ |
| occupation |
guitarist
ⓘ
musician ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ |
| posthumousRecognition |
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction
ⓘ
surface form:
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee
|
| recordLabel |
ARC Records
ⓘ
Vocalion Records ⓘ |
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: Robert Johnson Description of subject: Robert Johnson was a pioneering early 20th-century Delta blues guitarist and singer whose influential recordings profoundly shaped the development of blues and rock music.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Robert Leroy Johnson
subject surface form:
Clarksdale, Mississippi