Jimmy Swaggart
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Jimmy Swaggart is an American Pentecostal televangelist, gospel music performer, and founder of the SonLife Broadcasting Network, known for his influential ministry and high-profile scandals in the 1980s and 1990s.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jimmy Swaggart canonical | 5 |
| Donnie Swaggart | 1 |
| Jimmy Lee Swaggart | 1 |
| Jimmy Swaggart Ministries | 1 |
| Swaggart | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4011001 — 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: Jimmy Swaggart Context triple: [Jerry Lee Lewis, relative, Jimmy Swaggart]
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A.
Chris Tilton
Chris Tilton is an American composer best known for his work on television and video game scores, including his collaborations with J.J. Abrams on series like Fringe.
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B.
Pat Robertson
Pat Robertson was an American televangelist, media mogul, and conservative political figure best known as the founder of the Christian Broadcasting Network and host of "The 700 Club."
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C.
Joshua Harris
Joshua Harris is an American billionaire investor and philanthropist best known as a co-founder of the private equity firm Apollo Global Management and an owner of major professional sports franchises.
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D.
Steve Harvey
Steve Harvey is an American comedian, television host, and author best known for hosting shows like Family Feud and writing the relationship advice book "Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man."
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E.
Keith Merryman
Keith Merryman is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing popular romantic comedies such as "Think Like a Man" and its sequel.
- 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: Jimmy Swaggart Target entity description: Jimmy Swaggart is an American Pentecostal televangelist, gospel music performer, and founder of the SonLife Broadcasting Network, known for his influential ministry and high-profile scandals in the 1980s and 1990s.
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A.
Chris Tilton
Chris Tilton is an American composer best known for his work on television and video game scores, including his collaborations with J.J. Abrams on series like Fringe.
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B.
Pat Robertson
Pat Robertson was an American televangelist, media mogul, and conservative political figure best known as the founder of the Christian Broadcasting Network and host of "The 700 Club."
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C.
Joshua Harris
Joshua Harris is an American billionaire investor and philanthropist best known as a co-founder of the private equity firm Apollo Global Management and an owner of major professional sports franchises.
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D.
Steve Harvey
Steve Harvey is an American comedian, television host, and author best known for hosting shows like Family Feud and writing the relationship advice book "Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man."
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E.
Keith Merryman
Keith Merryman is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing popular romantic comedies such as "Think Like a Man" and its sequel.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American evangelist
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Christian minister ⓘ Pentecostal televangelist ⓘ gospel singer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1950s ⓘ |
| basedIn |
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
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surface form:
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States
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| child |
Jimmy Swaggart
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Donnie Swaggart
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| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1935-03-15 ⓘ |
| denomination | Assemblies of God (until defrocking) ⓘ |
| disciplinaryAction | defrocked by the Assemblies of God in 1988 ⓘ |
| employer | Jimmy Swaggart Ministries ⓘ |
| familyName |
Jimmy Swaggart
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Swaggart
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| fieldOfWork |
Christian evangelism
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gospel music performance ⓘ television ministry ⓘ |
| founded |
Jimmy Swaggart
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Jimmy Swaggart Ministries
SonLife Broadcasting Network ⓘ |
| fullName |
Jimmy Swaggart
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Jimmy Lee Swaggart
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| genre |
Christian music
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gospel music ⓘ |
| givenName | Jimmy ⓘ |
| hasAcademicAffiliation | Jimmy Swaggart Bible College ⓘ |
| hasBroadcastNetwork | SonLife Broadcasting Network ⓘ |
| hasRadioNetwork |
SonLife Broadcasting Network
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surface form:
SonLife Radio Network
|
| hasTelevisionProgram | The Jimmy Swaggart Telecast ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.jsm.org/ ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
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surface form:
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States
|
| instrument | piano ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Assemblies of God (until defrocking)
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surface form:
Assemblies of God (former)
|
| movement | Pentecostal movement ⓘ |
| musicStyle | Southern gospel ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
1988 prostitution scandal
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1991 scandal involving a prostitute ⓘ |
| notablePublication | The Expositor’s Study Bible ⓘ |
| notableWork |
SonLife Broadcasting Network programming
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The Jimmy Swaggart Telecast ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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gospel musician ⓘ pastor ⓘ pianist ⓘ televangelist ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Ferriday, Louisiana, United States ⓘ |
| publicApology | televised confession in 1988 ⓘ |
| relative |
Jerry Lee Lewis
ONNED1
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Mickey Gilley ⓘ |
| religion |
Pentecostal churches
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surface form:
Pentecostalism
|
| spouse | Frances Swaggart ⓘ |
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: Jimmy Swaggart Description of subject: Jimmy Swaggart is an American Pentecostal televangelist, gospel music performer, and founder of the SonLife Broadcasting Network, known for his influential ministry and high-profile scandals in the 1980s and 1990s.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Ferriday, Louisiana
this entity surface form:
Jimmy Lee Swaggart
this entity surface form:
Swaggart
this entity surface form:
Donnie Swaggart
this entity surface form:
Jimmy Swaggart Ministries