Samuel Cornelius Phillips
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Samuel Cornelius Phillips was an influential American record producer and founder of Sun Records, best known for discovering and recording early rock and roll artists such as Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, and Jerry Lee Lewis.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Samuel Cornelius Phillips canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4092359 — 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: Samuel Cornelius Phillips Context triple: [Sam Phillips, fullName, Samuel Cornelius Phillips]
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A.
Edward Everett Horton
Edward Everett Horton was an American character actor and comedian best known for his droll, fussy persona in classic Hollywood films and early television.
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B.
George A. Perkins
George A. Perkins was an American lawyer best known as a founding partner of the prominent U.S. law firm Perkins Coie.
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C.
John Jacob Rogers
John Jacob Rogers was a U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts best known for sponsoring the 1924 Rogers Act that modernized and professionalized the American Foreign Service.
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D.
Charles A. Phipps
Charles A. Phipps was a prominent 19th-century British theatre architect known for designing several notable playhouses across the United Kingdom.
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E.
George C. Perkins
George C. Perkins was an American politician and businessman who served as the 14th governor of California and later as a U.S. Senator.
- 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: Samuel Cornelius Phillips Target entity description: Samuel Cornelius Phillips was an influential American record producer and founder of Sun Records, best known for discovering and recording early rock and roll artists such as Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, and Jerry Lee Lewis.
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A.
Edward Everett Horton
Edward Everett Horton was an American character actor and comedian best known for his droll, fussy persona in classic Hollywood films and early television.
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B.
George A. Perkins
George A. Perkins was an American lawyer best known as a founding partner of the prominent U.S. law firm Perkins Coie.
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C.
John Jacob Rogers
John Jacob Rogers was a U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts best known for sponsoring the 1924 Rogers Act that modernized and professionalized the American Foreign Service.
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D.
Charles A. Phipps
Charles A. Phipps was a prominent 19th-century British theatre architect known for designing several notable playhouses across the United Kingdom.
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E.
George C. Perkins
George C. Perkins was an American politician and businessman who served as the 14th governor of California and later as a U.S. Senator.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
audio engineer
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businessperson ⓘ human ⓘ music executive ⓘ radio broadcaster ⓘ record producer ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Sam Phillips NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Grammy Trustees Award
NERFINISHED
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induction into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ⓘ |
| basedIn | Memphis, Tennessee, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1923-01-05 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Florence, Alabama, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Memphis, Tennessee, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | respiratory failure ⓘ |
| child |
Jerry Phillips
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Knox Phillips NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 2003-07-30 ⓘ |
| founded |
Sun Records
NERFINISHED
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Sun Studio NERFINISHED ⓘ WHER radio station NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genreWorkedIn |
country music
ⓘ
rhythm and blues ⓘ rock and roll ⓘ rockabilly ⓘ |
| hallOfFameInduction |
Blues Hall of Fame
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Country Music Hall of Fame NERFINISHED ⓘ Rock and Roll Hall of Fame NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced |
development of rock and roll
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popularization of rockabilly ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Sun Records sound
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discovering Elvis Presley ⓘ recording early rock and roll artists ⓘ |
| name | Samuel Cornelius Phillips NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
businessperson
ⓘ
radio station owner ⓘ record producer ⓘ sound engineer ⓘ |
| operated | Memphis Recording Service NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordedArtist |
B.B. King
NERFINISHED
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Carl Perkins NERFINISHED ⓘ Elvis Presley NERFINISHED ⓘ Howlin' Wolf NERFINISHED ⓘ Ike Turner NERFINISHED ⓘ Jerry Lee Lewis NERFINISHED ⓘ Johnny Cash NERFINISHED ⓘ Roy Orbison NERFINISHED ⓘ Rufus Thomas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| significantEvent | recorded Elvis Presley's first commercial single "That's All Right" in 1954 ⓘ |
| spouse | Rebecca "Becky" Burns Phillips NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Samuel Cornelius Phillips Description of subject: Samuel Cornelius Phillips was an influential American record producer and founder of Sun Records, best known for discovering and recording early rock and roll artists such as Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, and Jerry Lee Lewis.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.