Sam Hopkins
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Sam "Lightnin’" Hopkins was a highly influential American country blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter known for his distinctive Texas blues style and prolific recording career.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sam Hopkins canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10547826 — 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 Hopkins Context triple: [Lightnin’ Hopkins, alsoKnownAs, Sam Hopkins]
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A.
Stu Hopps
Stu Hopps is Judy Hopps' overprotective yet loving father, a carrot farmer in the animated film "Zootopia."
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B.
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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C.
Stanley Hopkins
Stanley Hopkins is a young, earnest Scotland Yard inspector who appears as one of the recurring police characters in Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories.
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D.
Ben Hawkins
Ben Hawkins is the young, enigmatic protagonist of the television series "Carnivàle," a Depression-era drifter with mysterious healing powers who becomes entangled in a cosmic struggle between good and evil.
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E.
Joel Hopkins
Joel Hopkins is a British film director and screenwriter known for character-driven romantic comedies such as "Last Chance Harvey."
- 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 Hopkins Target entity description: Sam "Lightnin’" Hopkins was a highly influential American country blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter known for his distinctive Texas blues style and prolific recording career.
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A.
Stu Hopps
Stu Hopps is Judy Hopps' overprotective yet loving father, a carrot farmer in the animated film "Zootopia."
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B.
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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C.
Stanley Hopkins
Stanley Hopkins is a young, earnest Scotland Yard inspector who appears as one of the recurring police characters in Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories.
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D.
Ben Hawkins
Ben Hawkins is the young, enigmatic protagonist of the television series "Carnivàle," a Depression-era drifter with mysterious healing powers who becomes entangled in a cosmic struggle between good and evil.
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E.
Joel Hopkins
Joel Hopkins is a British film director and screenwriter known for character-driven romantic comedies such as "Last Chance Harvey."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Texas blues musician
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blues musician ⓘ country 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 ⓘ |
| birthName | Samuel John Hopkins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1912-03-15 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1982-01-30 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Black Americans
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surface form:
African American
|
| familyName | Hopkins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
Texas blues
NERFINISHED
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blues ⓘ country blues ⓘ |
| givenName | Sam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced |
Jimi Hendrix
NERFINISHED
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Stevie Ray Vaughan NERFINISHED ⓘ The Rolling Stones NERFINISHED ⓘ Townes Van Zandt NERFINISHED ⓘ modern Texas blues guitarists ⓘ |
| instrument | guitar ⓘ |
| name | Sam Hopkins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Automobile Blues
NERFINISHED
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Baby Please Don’t Go NERFINISHED ⓘ Katie Mae NERFINISHED ⓘ Mojo Hand NERFINISHED ⓘ Tim Moore’s Farm NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
guitarist
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singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Centerville, Texas, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Houston, Texas, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Aladdin Records
NERFINISHED
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Arhoolie Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Fire Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Folkways Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Gold Star Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Herald Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Prestige Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stageName |
Lightnin' Hopkins
NERFINISHED
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Lightnin’ Hopkins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| style |
improvisational lyrics
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rhythmic guitar boogie patterns ⓘ spoken introductions and storytelling ⓘ |
| vocalType | blues vocals ⓘ |
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 Hopkins Description of subject: Sam "Lightnin’" Hopkins was a highly influential American country blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter known for his distinctive Texas blues style and prolific recording career.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.