Bobby Fuller
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Bobby Fuller was an American rock and roll singer, songwriter, and bandleader best known for his 1966 hit "I Fought the Law."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bobby Fuller canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5714193 — 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: Bobby Fuller Context triple: [North Hollywood High School, hasNotableAlumnus, Bobby Fuller]
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A.
John Wesley Dean III
John Wesley Dean III is an American attorney best known for serving as White House Counsel to President Richard Nixon and for his key role as a whistleblower in the Watergate scandal.
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B.
Eddie Cochran
Eddie Cochran was an influential American rock and roll singer, guitarist, and songwriter of the 1950s, best known for hits like "Summertime Blues" and his pioneering role in early rockabilly music.
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C.
Ritchie Valens
Ritchie Valens was a pioneering Mexican-American rock and roll musician whose 1950s hits like "La Bamba" helped shape Chicano rock and influence later Latin-infused rock bands.
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D.
Chris Isaak
Chris Isaak is an American rock and roll singer-songwriter and guitarist known for his retro 1950s sound, haunting ballads like "Wicked Game," and distinctive reverb-heavy guitar style.
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E.
Alan Wilson
Alan Wilson is a renowned motorsports circuit designer known for creating several modern racetracks around the world.
- 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: Bobby Fuller Target entity description: Bobby Fuller was an American rock and roll singer, songwriter, and bandleader best known for his 1966 hit "I Fought the Law."
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A.
John Wesley Dean III
John Wesley Dean III is an American attorney best known for serving as White House Counsel to President Richard Nixon and for his key role as a whistleblower in the Watergate scandal.
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B.
Eddie Cochran
Eddie Cochran was an influential American rock and roll singer, guitarist, and songwriter of the 1950s, best known for hits like "Summertime Blues" and his pioneering role in early rockabilly music.
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C.
Ritchie Valens
Ritchie Valens was a pioneering Mexican-American rock and roll musician whose 1950s hits like "La Bamba" helped shape Chicano rock and influence later Latin-infused rock bands.
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D.
Chris Isaak
Chris Isaak is an American rock and roll singer-songwriter and guitarist known for his retro 1950s sound, haunting ballads like "Wicked Game," and distinctive reverb-heavy guitar style.
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E.
Alan Wilson
Alan Wilson is a renowned motorsports circuit designer known for creating several modern racetracks around the world.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bandleader
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human ⓘ rock and roll musician ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1966 ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | early 1960s ⓘ |
| associatedAct | The Bobby Fuller Four NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Robert Gaston Fuller NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | unexplained death ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| coveredSong | I Fought the Law by The Crickets NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1942-10-22 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1966-07-18 ⓘ |
| ethnicity | White American ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
popular music
ⓘ
rock music ⓘ |
| genre |
garage rock
ⓘ
rock and roll ⓘ rockabilly ⓘ |
| hasDiscographyEntry |
I Fought the Law (album)
NERFINISHED
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KRLA King of the Wheels NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSibling | Randell Fuller NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Buddy Holly NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| instrument |
guitar
ⓘ
vocals ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium | recorded music ⓘ |
| memberOf | The Bobby Fuller Four NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicalStyle | Tex-Mex-influenced rock and roll ⓘ |
| name | Bobby Fuller NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | 1966 hit recording of I Fought the Law ⓘ |
| notableWork |
I Fought the Law
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Let Her Dance NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
bandleader
ⓘ
musician ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Baytown, Texas, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Los Angeles, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Del-Fi Records
NERFINISHED
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Mustang Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| styleComparedTo | Buddy Holly and the Crickets NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedIn |
El Paso, Texas
NERFINISHED
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Los Angeles, California 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: Bobby Fuller Description of subject: Bobby Fuller was an American rock and roll singer, songwriter, and bandleader best known for his 1966 hit "I Fought the Law."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.