Kozmic Blues Band
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Kozmic Blues Band was the soul- and R&B-influenced rock group formed by Janis Joplin after leaving Big Brother and the Holding Company, best known for backing her on the album "I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama!".
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kozmic Blues Band canonical | 1 |
| The Kozmic Blues Band | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4649933 — 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: Kozmic Blues Band Context triple: [Janis Joplin, memberOf, Kozmic Blues Band]
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A.
Alborosie
Alborosie is an Italian-born reggae artist and producer known for his roots-influenced sound and prominent role in contemporary Jamaican reggae music.
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B.
The Moodists
The Moodists were an Australian post-punk band active in the early 1980s, known for their dark, angular sound and association with the Melbourne underground music scene.
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C.
St. Lunatics
St. Lunatics is a hip hop group from St. Louis, Missouri, best known for launching the career of rapper Nelly and for their early-2000s chart successes.
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D.
The Spiders
The Spiders is the traditional nickname of Queen’s Park F.C., one of Scotland’s oldest football clubs known for its distinctive black-and-white hooped kits.
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E.
The Hot Band
The Hot Band was Emmylou Harris’s acclaimed backing group in the 1970s, known for its virtuoso country-rock musicians and influential role in shaping her signature sound.
- 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: Kozmic Blues Band Target entity description: Kozmic Blues Band was the soul- and R&B-influenced rock group formed by Janis Joplin after leaving Big Brother and the Holding Company, best known for backing her on the album "I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama!".
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A.
Alborosie
Alborosie is an Italian-born reggae artist and producer known for his roots-influenced sound and prominent role in contemporary Jamaican reggae music.
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B.
The Moodists
The Moodists were an Australian post-punk band active in the early 1980s, known for their dark, angular sound and association with the Melbourne underground music scene.
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C.
St. Lunatics
St. Lunatics is a hip hop group from St. Louis, Missouri, best known for launching the career of rapper Nelly and for their early-2000s chart successes.
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D.
The Spiders
The Spiders is the traditional nickname of Queen’s Park F.C., one of Scotland’s oldest football clubs known for its distinctive black-and-white hooped kits.
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E.
The Hot Band
The Hot Band was Emmylou Harris’s acclaimed backing group in the 1970s, known for its virtuoso country-rock musicians and influential role in shaping her signature sound.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
backing band
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rock band ⓘ |
| activeInDecade | 1960s ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Big Brother and the Holding Company
NERFINISHED
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Janis Joplin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| backedArtist | Janis Joplin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| followedBy | Full Tilt Boogie Band NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formedAfter | Janis Joplin leaving Big Brother and the Holding Company ⓘ |
| genre |
blues rock
ⓘ
rhythm and blues ⓘ rock ⓘ soul ⓘ |
| hasMusicalStyleElement |
R&B-influenced rock
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blues-influenced rock ⓘ horn-driven arrangements ⓘ soul-influenced rock ⓘ |
| hasNotableMember | Janis Joplin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfLyrics | English ⓘ |
| notableAlbumRole | backing band on I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama! ⓘ |
| notableGenreInfluence |
R&B
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soul ⓘ |
| notableLiveActivity | late 1960s concert tours with Janis Joplin ⓘ |
| notableWork | I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama! NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfArtistCareerPhase | Janis Joplin solo period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precededBy | Big Brother and the Holding Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryVocalist | Janis Joplin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordedWithLabel | Columbia Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| touringBandFor | Janis Joplin 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: Kozmic Blues Band Description of subject: Kozmic Blues Band was the soul- and R&B-influenced rock group formed by Janis Joplin after leaving Big Brother and the Holding Company, best known for backing her on the album "I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama!".
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Kozmic Blues Band