Sam John Hopkins
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Sam John Hopkins, better known as Lightnin’ Hopkins, was a highly influential American Texas blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter renowned for his distinctive electric blues style.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sam John Hopkins canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10547825 — 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: Sam John Hopkins Context triple: [Lightnin’ Hopkins, birthName, Sam John Hopkins]
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A.
Joel Hopkins
Joel Hopkins is a British film director and screenwriter known for character-driven romantic comedies such as "Last Chance Harvey."
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B.
Neil Hopkins
Neil Hopkins is an American actor best known for his roles in film and television, including appearances in projects like the science fiction movie "Skyline" and the TV series "Lost."
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C.
Fred Hopkins
Fred Hopkins was an influential American jazz double bassist known for his innovative work in the avant-garde and free jazz scenes, particularly with the trio Air.
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D.
Richard Hopkins
Richard Hopkins was a British television producer best known for developing and producing major entertainment formats, including the hit dance competition show Strictly Come Dancing.
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E.
Stephen Hopkin
Stephen Hopkin is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Hopkin, though specific widely known achievements or roles are not clearly documented.
- 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: Sam John Hopkins Target entity description: Sam John Hopkins, better known as Lightnin’ Hopkins, was a highly influential American Texas blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter renowned for his distinctive electric blues style.
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A.
Joel Hopkins
Joel Hopkins is a British film director and screenwriter known for character-driven romantic comedies such as "Last Chance Harvey."
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B.
Neil Hopkins
Neil Hopkins is an American actor best known for his roles in film and television, including appearances in projects like the science fiction movie "Skyline" and the TV series "Lost."
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C.
Fred Hopkins
Fred Hopkins was an influential American jazz double bassist known for his innovative work in the avant-garde and free jazz scenes, particularly with the trio Air.
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D.
Richard Hopkins
Richard Hopkins was a British television producer best known for developing and producing major entertainment formats, including the hit dance competition show Strictly Come Dancing.
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E.
Stephen Hopkin
Stephen Hopkin is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Hopkin, though specific widely known achievements or roles are not clearly documented.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
blues musician
ⓘ
human ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1980s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1920s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Blind Lemon Jefferson
NERFINISHED
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Brownie McGhee NERFINISHED ⓘ Sonny Terry NERFINISHED ⓘ Texas Alexander NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1912-03-15 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Centerville, Texas, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1982-01-30 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Houston, Texas, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Hopkins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
Texas blues
ⓘ
country blues ⓘ electric blues ⓘ |
| givenName | Sam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedGenre |
blues
ⓘ
rock ⓘ |
| instrument |
guitar
ⓘ
vocals ⓘ |
| middleName | John NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAlbum |
Lightnin’ Hopkins (1959 album)
NERFINISHED
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Mojo Hand (1960 album) NERFINISHED ⓘ Walkin’ This Road by Myself NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Baby Please Don’t Go
NERFINISHED
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Katie Mae NERFINISHED ⓘ Mojo Hand NERFINISHED ⓘ Tim Moore’s Farm NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
guitarist
ⓘ
singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Aladdin Records
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Arhoolie Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Fire Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Gold Star Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Herald Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Prestige Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Vee-Jay Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Verve Records ⓘ World Pacific Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Houston, Texas, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stageName |
Lightnin Hopkins
NERFINISHED
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Lightnin’ Hopkins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| style |
improvisational lyrics
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rhythmic guitar boogie patterns ⓘ spoken-word storytelling between songs ⓘ |
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: Sam John Hopkins Description of subject: Sam John Hopkins, better known as Lightnin’ Hopkins, was a highly influential American Texas blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter renowned for his distinctive electric blues style.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.