Melvin Franklin

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Melvin Franklin was an American bass singer best known as a founding and longtime member of the Motown vocal group The Temptations.

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Label Occurrences
Melvin Franklin canonical 13

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf American singer
bass singer
human
singer
activeYearsEnd 1995
activeYearsStart 1950s
alias Blue
associatedAct David Ruffin
Eddie Kendricks
Otis Williams
Paul Williams
associatedWith Motown
birthName David Melvin English
causeOfDeath cardiac arrest
complications of seizures
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
surface form: United States
dateOfBirth 1942-10-12
dateOfDeath 1995-02-23
ethnicity African-American
foundingMemberOf The Temptations
genre R&B
pop
soul
hallOfFameInduction Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
hallOfFameInductionYear 1989
influencedGenre Motown
surface form: Motown sound
knownFor deep bass voice
vocal harmonies with The Temptations
memberOf The Temptations
name Melvin Franklin self-link
nationality American
notableWork Ain't Too Proud to Beg
Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)
My Girl
Papa Was a Rollin' Stone
numberOfChildren 6
occupation musician
singer
placeOfBirth Montgomery, Alabama
surface form: Montgomery, Alabama, United States
placeOfDeath Los Angeles, California, United States of America
surface form: Los Angeles, California, United States
raisedIn Detroit
surface form: Detroit, Michigan, United States
recordLabel Motown
surface form: Motown Records
religion Christianity
residence Detroit
surface form: Detroit, Michigan, United States

Los Angeles
surface form: Los Angeles, California, United States
spouse Kim English
vocalType bass
voiceType bass-baritone

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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: Melvin Franklin
Description of subject: Melvin Franklin was an American bass singer best known as a founding and longtime member of the Motown vocal group The Temptations.

Referenced by (13)

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

The Temptations hasFormerMember Melvin Franklin
Eddie Kendricks associatedAct Melvin Franklin
My Girl backingVocalist Melvin Franklin
Cloud Nine leadVocalist Melvin Franklin
Paul Williams associatedAct Melvin Franklin
Meet The Temptations featuresVocalist Melvin Franklin
Psychedelic Shack featuresVocalist Melvin Franklin
Masterpiece featuresLeadVocalsBy Melvin Franklin
Melvin Franklin name Melvin Franklin self-link