Bert Jansch
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Bert Jansch was a highly influential Scottish folk guitarist, singer, and songwriter, renowned for his innovative fingerstyle playing and his work both solo and with the band Pentangle.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bert Jansch canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4306367 — 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: Bert Jansch Context triple: [Noah Georgeson, workedWith, Bert Jansch]
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A.
Johnny Brett
Johnny Brett is a talented but underappreciated tap dancer and one of the central protagonists in the classic musical film "Broadway Melody of 1940."
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B.
Larry Mullins
Larry Mullins is an American multi-instrumentalist and composer best known for his work as a drummer and keyboardist with Iggy Pop and The Stooges, as well as numerous collaborations in rock and experimental music.
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C.
Michael Chapman
Michael Chapman was an acclaimed American cinematographer best known for his influential work on landmark films of the 1970s and 1980s, particularly in collaboration with director Martin Scorsese.
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D.
Phil Green
Phil Green was a British composer and bandleader known for his prolific work in film and library music during the mid-20th century.
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E.
Mark Knopfler
Mark Knopfler is a British singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer best known as the frontman of Dire Straits and for his distinctive fingerstyle guitar playing.
- 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: Bert Jansch Target entity description: Bert Jansch was a highly influential Scottish folk guitarist, singer, and songwriter, renowned for his innovative fingerstyle playing and his work both solo and with the band Pentangle.
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A.
Johnny Brett
Johnny Brett is a talented but underappreciated tap dancer and one of the central protagonists in the classic musical film "Broadway Melody of 1940."
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B.
Larry Mullins
Larry Mullins is an American multi-instrumentalist and composer best known for his work as a drummer and keyboardist with Iggy Pop and The Stooges, as well as numerous collaborations in rock and experimental music.
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C.
Michael Chapman
Michael Chapman was an acclaimed American cinematographer best known for his influential work on landmark films of the 1970s and 1980s, particularly in collaboration with director Martin Scorsese.
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D.
Phil Green
Phil Green was a British composer and bandleader known for his prolific work in film and library music during the mid-20th century.
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E.
Mark Knopfler
Mark Knopfler is a British singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer best known as the frontman of Dire Straits and for his distinctive fingerstyle guitar playing.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
folk musician
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guitarist ⓘ human ⓘ musician ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 2011 ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1960 ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Anne Briggs
NERFINISHED
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Davy Graham NERFINISHED ⓘ John Renbourn NERFINISHED ⓘ Pentangle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived | BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards Lifetime Achievement Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | lung cancer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1943-11-03 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2011-10-05 ⓘ |
| fullName | Herbert Jansch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
British folk revival
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folk ⓘ folk rock ⓘ |
| givenName | Herbert ⓘ |
| influenced |
Graham Coxon
NERFINISHED
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Jimmy Page NERFINISHED ⓘ Johnny Marr NERFINISHED ⓘ Neil Young NERFINISHED ⓘ Nick Drake NERFINISHED ⓘ Paul Simon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| instrument |
acoustic guitar
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vocals ⓘ |
| memberOf | Pentangle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement | 1960s British folk revival ⓘ |
| nationality | Scottish ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
innovative fingerstyle guitar technique
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use of alternate tunings ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Bert Jansch (1965 album)
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Jack Orion (1966 album) NERFINISHED ⓘ Nicola (1967 album) NERFINISHED ⓘ Rosemary Lane (1971 album) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
guitarist
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singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Glasgow, Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | London, England ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Charisma Records
NERFINISHED
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Reprise Records ⓘ Sanctuary Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Transatlantic Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Edinburgh, Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stageName | Bert Jansch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Bert Jansch Description of subject: Bert Jansch was a highly influential Scottish folk guitarist, singer, and songwriter, renowned for his innovative fingerstyle playing and his work both solo and with the band Pentangle.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.