Hot Tuna
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Hot Tuna is an American blues-rock band formed by Jefferson Airplane members Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady, known for their electric and acoustic explorations of traditional blues and roots music.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hot Tuna canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5364357 — 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: Hot Tuna Context triple: [Jefferson Airplane, associatedAct, Hot Tuna]
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A.
Stone Poneys
Stone Poneys were a 1960s American folk-rock trio best known for launching Linda Ronstadt’s career and their hit single “Different Drum.”
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B.
Royal Trux
Royal Trux is an American experimental rock duo known for their lo-fi, noise-infused sound and influential role in the 1990s indie and underground rock scenes.
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C.
The Rosebuds
The Rosebuds are an American indie rock band from North Carolina known for their melodic, emotionally driven songs that blend pop, rock, and folk influences.
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D.
Furthur
Furthur was a post-Grateful Dead jam band formed by former members Bob Weir and Phil Lesh, known for continuing the Dead’s improvisational psychedelic rock legacy in the late 2000s and early 2010s.
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E.
Blues Traveler
Blues Traveler is an American rock band best known for its harmonica-driven blend of blues rock and jam band improvisation, as well as hits like "Run-Around" and "Hook."
- 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: Hot Tuna Target entity description: Hot Tuna is an American blues-rock band formed by Jefferson Airplane members Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady, known for their electric and acoustic explorations of traditional blues and roots music.
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A.
Stone Poneys
Stone Poneys were a 1960s American folk-rock trio best known for launching Linda Ronstadt’s career and their hit single “Different Drum.”
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B.
Royal Trux
Royal Trux is an American experimental rock duo known for their lo-fi, noise-infused sound and influential role in the 1990s indie and underground rock scenes.
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C.
The Rosebuds
The Rosebuds are an American indie rock band from North Carolina known for their melodic, emotionally driven songs that blend pop, rock, and folk influences.
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D.
Furthur
Furthur was a post-Grateful Dead jam band formed by former members Bob Weir and Phil Lesh, known for continuing the Dead’s improvisational psychedelic rock legacy in the late 2000s and early 2010s.
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E.
Blues Traveler
Blues Traveler is an American rock band best known for its harmonica-driven blend of blues rock and jam band improvisation, as well as hits like "Run-Around" and "Hook."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American rock band
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blues rock band ⓘ |
| album |
America's Choice
NERFINISHED
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Burgers NERFINISHED ⓘ Double Dose NERFINISHED ⓘ Final Vinyl NERFINISHED ⓘ First Pull Up, Then Pull Down NERFINISHED ⓘ Historic Live Tuna NERFINISHED ⓘ Hoppkorv NERFINISHED ⓘ Hot Tuna NERFINISHED ⓘ Live at Sweetwater NERFINISHED ⓘ Live at Sweetwater Two NERFINISHED ⓘ Live at the Fillmore NERFINISHED ⓘ Live in Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ Pair a Dice Found NERFINISHED ⓘ Splashdown NERFINISHED ⓘ Steady as She Goes NERFINISHED ⓘ The Phosphorescent Rat NERFINISHED ⓘ Yellow Fever NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| debutAlbum | Hot Tuna NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| debutAlbumReleaseYear | 1970 ⓘ |
| formedInYear | 1969 ⓘ |
| genre |
acoustic blues
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blues rock ⓘ electric blues ⓘ folk rock ⓘ jam band ⓘ roots rock ⓘ |
| hasAssociatedAct |
Jefferson Airplane
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jefferson Starship NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasKeyInstrument |
acoustic guitar
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bass guitar ⓘ electric guitar ⓘ |
| hasKeyMemberRole |
Jack Casady – bass guitar
NERFINISHED
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Jorma Kaukonen – guitar and vocals ⓘ |
| hasLivePerformanceFocus |
extended improvisations
ⓘ
traditional blues standards ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Jack Casady
NERFINISHED
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Jorma Kaukonen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
acoustic explorations of traditional blues
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electric explorations of traditional blues ⓘ interpretations of Reverend Gary Davis songs ⓘ |
| originatedIn | San Francisco NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Epic Records
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Grunt Records NERFINISHED ⓘ RCA Records ⓘ Red House Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Relix Records 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: Hot Tuna Description of subject: Hot Tuna is an American blues-rock band formed by Jefferson Airplane members Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady, known for their electric and acoustic explorations of traditional blues and roots music.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.