The Spencer Davis Group
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The Spencer Davis Group was a 1960s British rock and rhythm and blues band best known for hits like "Gimme Some Lovin'" and "I'm a Man," which helped launch Steve Winwood's career.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Spencer Davis Group canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7298606 — 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: The Spencer Davis Group Context triple: [Steve Winwood, memberOf, The Spencer Davis Group]
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A.
The Small Faces
The Small Faces were a 1960s English rock and rhythm and blues band known for their influential role in the mod movement and hits like "Itchycoo Park" and "Lazy Sunday."
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B.
The Yardbirds
The Yardbirds were an influential 1960s English rock band known for pioneering psychedelic and blues rock and launching the careers of guitar legends Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, and Jimmy Page.
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C.
Graham Bond Organisation
The Graham Bond Organisation was a pioneering 1960s British rhythm and blues/jazz-rock band known for its influential role in the early careers of several major rock musicians.
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D.
The Dave Clark Five
The Dave Clark Five were a popular 1960s English rock and pop band known for hits like "Glad All Over" and for being one of the main chart rivals to The Beatles during the British Invasion.
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E.
The Shadows
The Shadows were a pioneering British instrumental rock group, best known as Cliff Richard’s backing band and for their influential, twangy guitar sound that shaped early rock and roll.
- 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: The Spencer Davis Group Target entity description: The Spencer Davis Group was a 1960s British rock and rhythm and blues band best known for hits like "Gimme Some Lovin'" and "I'm a Man," which helped launch Steve Winwood's career.
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A.
The Small Faces
The Small Faces were a 1960s English rock and rhythm and blues band known for their influential role in the mod movement and hits like "Itchycoo Park" and "Lazy Sunday."
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B.
The Yardbirds
The Yardbirds were an influential 1960s English rock band known for pioneering psychedelic and blues rock and launching the careers of guitar legends Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, and Jimmy Page.
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C.
Graham Bond Organisation
The Graham Bond Organisation was a pioneering 1960s British rhythm and blues/jazz-rock band known for its influential role in the early careers of several major rock musicians.
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D.
The Dave Clark Five
The Dave Clark Five were a popular 1960s English rock and pop band known for hits like "Glad All Over" and for being one of the main chart rivals to The Beatles during the British Invasion.
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E.
The Shadows
The Shadows were a pioneering British instrumental rock group, best known as Cliff Richard’s backing band and for their influential, twangy guitar sound that shaped early rock and roll.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (60)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British rhythm and blues band
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rock band ⓘ |
| activeYearsEndYear | 1969 ⓘ |
| activeYearsStartYear | 1963 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
England
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| genre |
British rock
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beat music ⓘ blue-eyed soul ⓘ rhythm and blues ⓘ rock ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Dave Hynes
NERFINISHED
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Dee Murray NERFINISHED ⓘ Eddie Hardin NERFINISHED ⓘ Muff Winwood NERFINISHED ⓘ Nigel Olsson NERFINISHED ⓘ Pete Murray NERFINISHED ⓘ Pete York NERFINISHED ⓘ Phil Sawyer NERFINISHED ⓘ Ray Fenwick NERFINISHED ⓘ Raymond Charles "Ray" Charles NERFINISHED ⓘ Spencer Davis NERFINISHED ⓘ Steve Winwood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPart | The Spencer Davis Group (original lineup) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locationOfFormation |
Birmingham
NERFINISHED
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Birmingham, England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFact |
The band helped launch Steve Winwood's career.
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The band was named after guitarist Spencer Davis. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
After Tea
NERFINISHED
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Autumn '66 NERFINISHED ⓘ Back Into My Life Again NERFINISHED ⓘ Dust My Blues NERFINISHED ⓘ Every Little Bit Hurts NERFINISHED ⓘ Georgia on My Mind NERFINISHED ⓘ Gimme Some Lovin' NERFINISHED ⓘ I Can't Stand It NERFINISHED ⓘ I'm a Man NERFINISHED ⓘ It Hurts Me So NERFINISHED ⓘ Jump Back NERFINISHED ⓘ Keep On Running NERFINISHED ⓘ Keep on Running (album) NERFINISHED ⓘ Let Me Down Easy NERFINISHED ⓘ Looking Back NERFINISHED ⓘ Midnight Train NERFINISHED ⓘ Mr. Second Class NERFINISHED ⓘ Neighbour, Neighbour ⓘ Searchin' NERFINISHED ⓘ She Put the Hurt on Me NERFINISHED ⓘ Sittin' and Thinkin' NERFINISHED ⓘ Somebody Help Me NERFINISHED ⓘ Stevie's Blues NERFINISHED ⓘ Strong Love NERFINISHED ⓘ The Second Album NERFINISHED ⓘ Time Seller NERFINISHED ⓘ Together Till the End of Time NERFINISHED ⓘ When I Come Home NERFINISHED ⓘ With Their New Face On NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Fontana Records
NERFINISHED
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Island Records ⓘ United Artists 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: The Spencer Davis Group Description of subject: The Spencer Davis Group was a 1960s British rock and rhythm and blues band best known for hits like "Gimme Some Lovin'" and "I'm a Man," which helped launch Steve Winwood's career.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.