Jerry Jeff Walker
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Jerry Jeff Walker was an American country singer-songwriter best known for his influential role in the outlaw country movement and for writing the classic song "Mr. Bojangles."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jerry Jeff Walker canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9042165 — 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: Jerry Jeff Walker Context triple: [Outlaw Country, typicalArtistsIncluded, Jerry Jeff Walker]
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A.
Michael Martin Murphey
Michael Martin Murphey is an American singer-songwriter best known for his contributions to country and cowboy music, including hits like "Wildfire" and "Carolina in the Pines."
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B.
Robert Earl Keen
Robert Earl Keen is an American singer-songwriter known for his influential contributions to Texas country and Americana music.
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C.
David Boren
David Boren is an American politician and educator who served as governor of Oklahoma, a U.S. senator, and later president of the University of Oklahoma.
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D.
Kris Kristofferson
Kris Kristofferson is an American country singer-songwriter and actor known for penning classics like "Me and Bobby McGee" and for his influential role in the outlaw country movement.
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E.
Willie Nelson
Willie Nelson is an American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist known for his distinctive voice, outlaw country style, and classics like "On the Road Again" and "Always on My Mind."
- 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: Jerry Jeff Walker Target entity description: Jerry Jeff Walker was an American country singer-songwriter best known for his influential role in the outlaw country movement and for writing the classic song "Mr. Bojangles."
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A.
Michael Martin Murphey
Michael Martin Murphey is an American singer-songwriter best known for his contributions to country and cowboy music, including hits like "Wildfire" and "Carolina in the Pines."
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B.
Robert Earl Keen
Robert Earl Keen is an American singer-songwriter known for his influential contributions to Texas country and Americana music.
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C.
David Boren
David Boren is an American politician and educator who served as governor of Oklahoma, a U.S. senator, and later president of the University of Oklahoma.
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D.
Kris Kristofferson
Kris Kristofferson is an American country singer-songwriter and actor known for penning classics like "Me and Bobby McGee" and for his influential role in the outlaw country movement.
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E.
Willie Nelson
Willie Nelson is an American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist known for his distinctive voice, outlaw country style, and classics like "On the Road Again" and "Always on My Mind."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
country musician
ⓘ
human ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 2010s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1960s ⓘ |
| album |
Bein' Free
NERFINISHED
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Contrary to Ordinary NERFINISHED ⓘ Cowboy Boots & Bathin' Suits NERFINISHED ⓘ It's a Good Night for Singin' NERFINISHED ⓘ Jerry Jeff NERFINISHED ⓘ Mr. Bojangles (1968 album) NERFINISHED ⓘ Ridin' High NERFINISHED ⓘ Too Old to Change NERFINISHED ⓘ Viva Terlingua NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedAct | The Lost Gonzo Band NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Texas country music scene ⓘ |
| birthName | Ronald Clyde Crosby NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | throat cancer ⓘ |
| child | Django Walker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1942-03-16 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2020-10-23 ⓘ |
| familyName | Crosby NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
country
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folk ⓘ outlaw country ⓘ progressive country ⓘ |
| givenName | Ronald ⓘ |
| influencedMovement | outlaw country movement ⓘ |
| instrument | guitar ⓘ |
| isCreatorOf | Mr. Bojangles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfPerformance | English ⓘ |
| movedTo | Austin, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Jerry Jeff Walker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableSong |
L.A. Freeway
NERFINISHED
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Up Against the Wall, Redneck Mother NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | Mr. Bojangles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
guitarist
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record producer ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Oneonta, New York, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Austin, Texas, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Decca Records
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MCA Records ⓘ RykoDisc NERFINISHED ⓘ Tried & True Music NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Susan Streit NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stageName | Jerry Jeff Walker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| vocalType | male voice ⓘ |
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: Jerry Jeff Walker Description of subject: Jerry Jeff Walker was an American country singer-songwriter best known for his influential role in the outlaw country movement and for writing the classic song "Mr. Bojangles."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Outlaw Country