Sampha
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Sampha is a British singer, songwriter, and producer known for his soulful vocals and collaborations with artists across electronic, R&B, and hip-hop music.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sampha canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8637004 — 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: Sampha Context triple: [Utopia, hasGuestAppearance, Sampha]
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A.
Moses Sumney
Moses Sumney is an American singer-songwriter known for his ethereal vocals and genre-blending, experimental soul music.
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B.
Terrace Martin
Terrace Martin is an American producer, multi-instrumentalist, and songwriter known for blending jazz, hip-hop, and R&B and for his work with artists like Kendrick Lamar and Robert Glasper.
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C.
James Blake
James Blake is an English singer, songwriter, producer, and pianist known for his atmospheric blend of electronic music, R&B, and soul, as well as his emotionally resonant vocals and innovative production.
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D.
James Blake
James Blake is an American former professional tennis player who reached a career-high world No. 4 ranking and was known for his powerful forehand and speed on the court.
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E.
Devonté Hynes
Devonté Hynes, also known by his stage name Blood Orange, is a British singer, songwriter, producer, and composer recognized for his genre-blending work across R&B, indie pop, and experimental music, as well as his acclaimed film scores.
- 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: Sampha Target entity description: Sampha is a British singer, songwriter, and producer known for his soulful vocals and collaborations with artists across electronic, R&B, and hip-hop music.
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A.
Moses Sumney
Moses Sumney is an American singer-songwriter known for his ethereal vocals and genre-blending, experimental soul music.
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B.
Terrace Martin
Terrace Martin is an American producer, multi-instrumentalist, and songwriter known for blending jazz, hip-hop, and R&B and for his work with artists like Kendrick Lamar and Robert Glasper.
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C.
James Blake
James Blake is an American former professional tennis player who reached a career-high world No. 4 ranking and was known for his powerful forehand and speed on the court.
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D.
James Blake
James Blake is an English singer, songwriter, producer, and pianist known for his atmospheric blend of electronic music, R&B, and soul, as well as his emotionally resonant vocals and innovative production.
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E.
Devonté Hynes
Devonté Hynes, also known by his stage name Blood Orange, is a British singer, songwriter, producer, and composer recognized for his genre-blending work across R&B, indie pop, and experimental music, as well as his acclaimed film scores.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
record producer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 2010 ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Beyoncé
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Drake NERFINISHED ⓘ Frank Ocean NERFINISHED ⓘ Jessie Ware NERFINISHED ⓘ Kanye West ⓘ Kelela NERFINISHED ⓘ SBTRKT NERFINISHED ⓘ Solange NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Mercury Prize NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceivedFor | Process NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceivedYear | 2017 ⓘ |
| birthName | Sampha Lahai Sisay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1988-11-16 ⓘ |
| debutStudioAlbum | Process NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| debutStudioAlbumReleaseDate | 2017-02-03 ⓘ |
| EP |
Dual
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sundanza NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin | Sierra Leonean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
R&B
ⓘ
alternative R&B ⓘ electronic music ⓘ soul ⓘ |
| instrument |
piano
ⓘ
vocals ⓘ |
| name | Sampha NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableCollaboration |
vocals on Drake track "Too Much"
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vocals on Kanye West track "Saint Pablo" ⓘ vocals on SBTRKT track "Hold On" ⓘ vocals on Solange track "Don't Touch My Hair" ⓘ |
| notableSingle |
(No One Knows Me) Like the Piano
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Blood on Me NERFINISHED ⓘ Without NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Lahai
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Process NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
record producer
ⓘ
singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Morden, London, England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Young (record label) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
London, England
ⓘ
surface form:
London
|
| secondStudioAlbum | Lahai NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| secondStudioAlbumReleaseYear | 2023 ⓘ |
| vocalType | tenor ⓘ |
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: Sampha Description of subject: Sampha is a British singer, songwriter, and producer known for his soulful vocals and collaborations with artists across electronic, R&B, and hip-hop music.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
American Utopia
subject surface form:
We Fall