Lucille (B.B. King’s guitar)
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Lucille is the iconic black Gibson guitar famously played by blues legend B.B. King throughout his career.
All labels observed (9)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1249330 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lucille (B.B. King’s guitar) Context triple: [The King of the Blues, associatedInstrument, Lucille (B.B. King’s guitar)]
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A.
Fender Stratocaster
The Fender Stratocaster is an iconic solid-body electric guitar renowned for its contoured body, three single-coil pickups, and distinctive tone that has shaped rock, blues, and pop music since the 1950s.
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B.
Sonny Boy
"Sonny Boy" is a popular 1928 sentimental ballad famously performed by Al Jolson that became one of the era’s best-selling songs.
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C.
B. B. King
B. B. King was an influential American blues guitarist and singer known for his expressive playing style and for helping popularize electric blues worldwide.
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D.
Guitar Bains
Guitar Bains is a complex, militant member of the Seven Days vigilante group in Toni Morrison’s novel "Song of Solomon," whose radical views on racial justice profoundly shape the protagonist’s journey.
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E.
Gibson
Gibson is a surname most prominently associated with Eleanor J. Gibson, an influential American psychologist known for her work on perceptual learning and development.
- 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: Lucille (B.B. King’s guitar) Target entity description: Lucille is the iconic black Gibson guitar famously played by blues legend B.B. King throughout his career.
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A.
Fender Stratocaster
The Fender Stratocaster is an iconic solid-body electric guitar renowned for its contoured body, three single-coil pickups, and distinctive tone that has shaped rock, blues, and pop music since the 1950s.
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B.
Sonny Boy
"Sonny Boy" is a popular 1928 sentimental ballad famously performed by Al Jolson that became one of the era’s best-selling songs.
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C.
B. B. King
B. B. King was an influential American blues guitarist and singer known for his expressive playing style and for helping popularize electric blues worldwide.
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D.
Guitar Bains
Guitar Bains is a complex, militant member of the Seven Days vigilante group in Toni Morrison’s novel "Song of Solomon," whose radical views on racial justice profoundly shape the protagonist’s journey.
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E.
Gibson
Gibson is a surname most prominently associated with Eleanor J. Gibson, an influential American psychologist known for her work on perceptual learning and development.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Gibson guitar
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electric guitar ⓘ musical instrument ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
B.B. King
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linked to:
B. B. King
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| closelyAssociatedSong |
Every Day I Have the Blues
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Sweet Little Angel ⓘ The Thrill Is Gone ⓘ |
| exhibitedAt | various music museums and exhibitions ⓘ |
| featuredIn |
B.B. King album covers
ⓘ
B.B. King live concerts worldwide ⓘ music documentaries about B.B. King ⓘ |
| hasBodyType | semi-hollow body ⓘ |
| hasBridgeType | Tune-o-matic bridge ⓘ |
| hasColor | black ⓘ |
| hasCulturalStatus |
famous named guitar in popular music history
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iconic blues guitar ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
Varitone switch
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bound ebony fingerboard ⓘ gold hardware ⓘ no f-holes ⓘ stereo output ⓘ |
| hasGenreAssociation | blues ⓘ |
| hasInlay |
block inlays
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“Lucille” headstock inlay ⓘ |
| hasManufacturer |
Gibson
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linked to:
Gibson Guitar Corporation
|
| hasModel | Gibson ES-355 ⓘ |
| hasNamingStoryElement |
B.B. King rescuing his guitar from a fire
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a barrel of burning kerosene knocked over in a dance hall ⓘ two men fighting over a woman named Lucille ⓘ |
| hasNeckJoint | set neck ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfStrings | 6 ⓘ |
| hasPickupType | humbucker pickups ⓘ |
| hasScaleLength | 24.75 inches ⓘ |
| hasSignatureModel |
Epiphone B.B. King Lucille model
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Gibson B.B. King Lucille model ⓘ
linked to:
Lucille (B.B. King’s guitar)
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| hasSuccessor | multiple guitars also named Lucille ⓘ |
| hasTailpiece | TP-6 fine-tuning tailpiece ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | a nightclub fire in Arkansas ⓘ |
| namedAfter | a woman named Lucille ⓘ |
| namedBy |
B.B. King
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linked to:
B. B. King
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| playedBy |
B.B. King
ⓘ
linked to:
B. B. King
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| relatedWork |
B.B. King’s autobiography “Blues All Around Me”
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song “Lucille” by B.B. King ⓘ
linked to:
Lucille (B.B. King album)
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| symbolizes |
B.B. King’s musical identity
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modern electric blues ⓘ |
| usedFor |
live performance
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studio recording ⓘ |
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: Lucille (B.B. King’s guitar) Description of subject: Lucille is the iconic black Gibson guitar famously played by blues legend B.B. King throughout his career.
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