Derek Trucks Band
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The Derek Trucks Band is a blues-rock and jam band led by slide guitar virtuoso Derek Trucks, known for blending rock, blues, jazz, and world music influences.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Derek Trucks Band | 3 |
| Derek Trucks Band canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2281700 — 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: Derek Trucks Band Context triple: [The Allman Brothers Band, associatedAct, Derek Trucks Band]
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A.
The Allman Brothers Band
The Allman Brothers Band was a pioneering American rock group known for blending blues, jazz, and country into a distinctive Southern rock sound and for their influential improvisational live performances.
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B.
Dead & Company
Dead & Company is a rock band formed by former Grateful Dead members alongside guitarist John Mayer, continuing the Grateful Dead’s improvisational live music legacy.
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C.
Dawes
Dawes is an American folk-rock band known for its Laurel Canyon-inspired sound and introspective songwriting.
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D.
Dave Matthews Band
Dave Matthews Band is an American rock group known for its improvisational live performances, fusion of rock, jazz, and folk influences, and hits like "Crash Into Me" and "Ants Marching."
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E.
My Morning Jacket
My Morning Jacket is an American rock band known for its expansive, reverb-heavy sound that blends indie rock, psychedelia, and country influences.
- 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: Derek Trucks Band Target entity description: The Derek Trucks Band is a blues-rock and jam band led by slide guitar virtuoso Derek Trucks, known for blending rock, blues, jazz, and world music influences.
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A.
The Allman Brothers Band
The Allman Brothers Band was a pioneering American rock group known for blending blues, jazz, and country into a distinctive Southern rock sound and for their influential improvisational live performances.
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B.
Dead & Company
Dead & Company is a rock band formed by former Grateful Dead members alongside guitarist John Mayer, continuing the Grateful Dead’s improvisational live music legacy.
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C.
Dawes
Dawes is an American folk-rock band known for its Laurel Canyon-inspired sound and introspective songwriting.
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D.
Dave Matthews Band
Dave Matthews Band is an American rock group known for its improvisational live performances, fusion of rock, jazz, and folk influences, and hits like "Crash Into Me" and "Ants Marching."
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E.
My Morning Jacket
My Morning Jacket is an American rock band known for its expansive, reverb-heavy sound that blends indie rock, psychedelia, and country influences.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
blues-rock band
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jam band ⓘ musical group ⓘ |
| activeEndYear | 2010 ⓘ |
| activeStartYear | 1994 ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
The Allman Brothers Band
ⓘ
surface form:
Allman Brothers Band
Gov’t Mule ⓘ
surface form:
Gov't Mule
Susan Tedeschi ⓘ Tedeschi Trucks Band ⓘ Widespread Panic ⓘ |
| awardReceivedFor | Already Free ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| genre |
blues
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blues rock ⓘ jam band ⓘ jazz fusion ⓘ rock ⓘ southern rock ⓘ world music ⓘ |
| hasLeader | Derek Trucks ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Count M'Butu
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Derek Trucks ⓘ Kofi Burbridge ⓘ Mike Mattison ⓘ Todd Smallie ⓘ Yonrico Scott ⓘ |
| hasOfficialWebsite | http://www.derektrucks.com/ ⓘ |
| hasReleaseType |
live album
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studio album ⓘ video album ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Indian classical music
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Latin music ⓘ blues ⓘ jazz ⓘ rock music ⓘ world music ⓘ |
| knownFor |
blending multiple genres
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extended improvisation ⓘ slide guitar-driven sound ⓘ |
| notableAward |
Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Recording
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surface form:
Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album
|
| notableWork |
Already Free
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Joyful Noise ⓘ Out of the Madness ⓘ Songlines ⓘ Soul Serenade ⓘ Derek Trucks Band self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
The Derek Trucks Band
|
| recordLabel |
Columbia Records
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House of Blues Records ⓘ Legacy Recordings ⓘ |
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: Derek Trucks Band Description of subject: The Derek Trucks Band is a blues-rock and jam band led by slide guitar virtuoso Derek Trucks, known for blending rock, blues, jazz, and world music influences.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Derek Trucks Band
this entity surface form:
The Derek Trucks Band
this entity surface form:
The Derek Trucks Band