The First Edition

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The First Edition was a late-1960s country-rock and pop band fronted by Kenny Rogers that gained fame with hits like "Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)" and later as Kenny Rogers and The First Edition.

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All labels observed (3)

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf band
musical group
activeYearsEndYear 1976
activeYearsStartYear 1967
alsoKnownAs Kenny Rogers and The First Edition
associatedAct Kenny Rogers
The New Christy Minstrels
surface form: New Christy Minstrels
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
debutAlbum The First Edition self-link
formedIn 1967
frontedBy Kenny Rogers
genre country pop
country rock
pop rock
psychedelic rock
hasAlbum Rollin’
Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love to Town
Something’s Burning
Tell It All Brother
Ten Years of Gold
The Ballad of Calico
The First Edition self-link
The First Edition self-linksurface differs
surface form: The First Edition’s Second

Transition
hasMember Kenny Rogers
Kin Vassy
Mary Arnold
Mickey Jones
Mike Settle
Terry Williams
Thelma Camacho
languageOfLyrics English
notableSong Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)
Reuben James
Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love to Town
Something’s Burning
notableWork Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)
Reuben James
Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love to Town
Something’s Burning
originCity Los Angeles
originCountry United States of America
surface form: United States
originState California, United States
surface form: California
peakPopularityPeriod early 1970s
late 1960s
recordLabel Reprise Records

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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: The First Edition
Description of subject: The First Edition was a late-1960s country-rock and pop band fronted by Kenny Rogers that gained fame with hits like "Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)" and later as Kenny Rogers and The First Edition.

Referenced by (26)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Kenny Rogers associatedAct The First Edition
Kenny Rogers memberOf The First Edition
Jimmie Rogers associatedAct The First Edition
The First Edition debutAlbum The First Edition self-link
The First Edition hasAlbum The First Edition self-link
The First Edition hasAlbum The First Edition self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: The First Edition’s Second
Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In) album The First Edition
this entity surface form: The First Edition (album)
Transition artist The First Edition
Transition performer The First Edition
Transition creditedTo The First Edition
Transition hasMusicalArtist The First Edition
Transition hasBand The First Edition
Rollin’ artist The First Edition
Rollin’ performer The First Edition
Something’s Burning recordingArtist The First Edition
The Ballad of Calico performer The First Edition
Terry Williams memberOf The First Edition
Terry Williams associatedAct The First Edition
Ruben James hasBackingBand The First Edition
Ruben James associatedAct The First Edition
Mary Arnold memberOf The First Edition
Mary Arnold associatedAct The First Edition