Kenny Buttrey
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Kenny Buttrey was an American session drummer renowned for his work on landmark recordings by artists such as Bob Dylan, Neil Young, and Elvis Presley.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Kenny Buttrey canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4867281 — 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: Kenny Buttrey Context triple: [Obviously 5 Believers, associatedArtist, Kenny Buttrey]
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A.
Ric Binkley
Ric Binkley was an American illustrator best known for his science fiction and fantasy cover art in the mid-20th century.
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B.
Jerry Crutchfield
Jerry Crutchfield was an American country music songwriter and producer known for his work with major artists and numerous hit songs across several decades.
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C.
Boyd Atkins
Boyd Atkins was an American jazz saxophonist and composer active in the early 20th century, known for his work with prominent Chicago and New Orleans bands.
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D.
Kenny Morris
Kenny Morris is an English drummer best known for his work with the influential post-punk band Siouxsie and the Banshees in the late 1970s.
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E.
Wayne Hardin
Wayne Hardin was a prominent American college football coach best known for his successful tenures leading the Navy Midshipmen and Temple Owls programs.
- 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: Kenny Buttrey Target entity description: Kenny Buttrey was an American session drummer renowned for his work on landmark recordings by artists such as Bob Dylan, Neil Young, and Elvis Presley.
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A.
Ric Binkley
Ric Binkley was an American illustrator best known for his science fiction and fantasy cover art in the mid-20th century.
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B.
Jerry Crutchfield
Jerry Crutchfield was an American country music songwriter and producer known for his work with major artists and numerous hit songs across several decades.
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C.
Boyd Atkins
Boyd Atkins was an American jazz saxophonist and composer active in the early 20th century, known for his work with prominent Chicago and New Orleans bands.
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D.
Kenny Morris
Kenny Morris is an English drummer best known for his work with the influential post-punk band Siouxsie and the Banshees in the late 1970s.
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E.
Wayne Hardin
Wayne Hardin was a prominent American college football coach best known for his successful tenures leading the Navy Midshipmen and Temple Owls programs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
drummer
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human ⓘ musician ⓘ session musician ⓘ |
| activeIn | Nashville music scene ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | cancer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1945-04-01 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2004-09-12 ⓘ |
| fullName | Aaron Kenneth Buttrey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
country music
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country rock ⓘ folk rock ⓘ rock music ⓘ |
| givenName |
Aaron
NERFINISHED
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Kenneth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| instrument | drum kit ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Area Code 615
NERFINISHED
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Barefoot Jerry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nickname | Kenny Buttrey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | being one of the most in-demand Nashville session drummers of the 1960s and 1970s ⓘ |
| notableWork |
drumming on Bob Dylan album "Blonde on Blonde"
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drumming on Bob Dylan album "John Wesley Harding" ⓘ drumming on Bob Dylan album "Nashville Skyline" ⓘ drumming on Elvis Presley recordings in Nashville ⓘ drumming on Neil Young album "After the Gold Rush" ⓘ drumming on Neil Young album "Harvest" ⓘ drumming on Neil Young song "Heart of Gold" ⓘ |
| occupation |
drummer
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record producer ⓘ session musician ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workedWith |
Bob Dylan
NERFINISHED
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Bob Seger NERFINISHED ⓘ Don Williams NERFINISHED ⓘ Elvis Presley NERFINISHED ⓘ George Harrison NERFINISHED ⓘ Gordon Lightfoot NERFINISHED ⓘ Jimmy Buffett NERFINISHED ⓘ Joan Baez NERFINISHED ⓘ John Prine NERFINISHED ⓘ Kris Kristofferson NERFINISHED ⓘ Neil Young NERFINISHED ⓘ Steve Goodman 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: Kenny Buttrey Description of subject: Kenny Buttrey was an American session drummer renowned for his work on landmark recordings by artists such as Bob Dylan, Neil Young, and Elvis Presley.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.