Jim James
E40458
guitarist
human
musical supergroup project
record producer
singer
songwriter
studio album
supergroup
Jim James is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist best known as the frontman of the rock band My Morning Jacket.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jim James canonical | 152 |
| Jim James discography | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T306013 — 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: Jim James Context triple: [Blake Mills, hasCollaboratedWith, Jim James]
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A.
Don Maynard
Don Maynard was a Hall of Fame American football wide receiver best known as Joe Namath’s primary deep threat and a key offensive star for the New York Jets during the 1960s.
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B.
Robby Mook
Robby Mook is an American political strategist best known for serving as campaign manager for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 U.S. presidential campaign.
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C.
Shannon Hoon
Shannon Hoon was the American lead singer of the rock band Blind Melon, best known for his distinctive voice and the hit song "No Rain" before his death in 1995.
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D.
David Mullins
David Mullins is an American man who, along with his partner Charlie Craig, was a complainant in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission involving LGBTQ+ rights and religious freedom.
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E.
Jon Lomberg
Jon Lomberg is an American space artist and science communicator best known for his close collaboration with Carl Sagan and his major role in designing the visual and artistic elements of NASA’s interstellar messages, including the Voyager Golden Record.
- 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: Jim James Target entity description: Jim James is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist best known as the frontman of the rock band My Morning Jacket.
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A.
Don Maynard
Don Maynard was a Hall of Fame American football wide receiver best known as Joe Namath’s primary deep threat and a key offensive star for the New York Jets during the 1960s.
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B.
Robby Mook
Robby Mook is an American political strategist best known for serving as campaign manager for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 U.S. presidential campaign.
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C.
Shannon Hoon
Shannon Hoon was the American lead singer of the rock band Blind Melon, best known for his distinctive voice and the hit song "No Rain" before his death in 1995.
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D.
David Mullins
David Mullins is an American man who, along with his partner Charlie Craig, was a complainant in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission involving LGBTQ+ rights and religious freedom.
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E.
Jon Lomberg
Jon Lomberg is an American space artist and science communicator best known for his close collaboration with Carl Sagan and his major role in designing the visual and artistic elements of NASA’s interstellar messages, including the Voyager Golden Record.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
guitarist
ⓘ
human ⓘ musical supergroup project ⓘ record producer ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ studio album ⓘ studio album ⓘ supergroup ⓘ |
| activeInField | music ⓘ |
| artist |
Jim James
ⓘ
Jim James ⓘ |
| associatedBand | My Morning Jacket ⓘ |
| birthName | James Edward Olliges Jr. ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
Bright Eyes
ⓘ
Monsters of Folk ⓘ |
| genre |
folk rock
ⓘ
indie rock ⓘ psychedelic rock ⓘ rock ⓘ |
| hasSoloCareer | true ⓘ |
| instrument |
bass guitar
ⓘ
guitar ⓘ keyboards ⓘ vocals ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Monsters of Folk
ⓘ
My Morning Jacket ⓘ |
| name | Jim James ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor | frontman of My Morning Jacket ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Circuital
ⓘ
It Still Moves ⓘ Z ⓘ |
| occupation |
guitarist
ⓘ
record producer ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| origin |
Louisville, Kentucky, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Louisville, Kentucky
|
| performedOn | The New Basement Tapes ⓘ |
| releasedAlbum |
Eternally Even
ⓘ
Regions of Light and Sound of God ⓘ |
| releaseYear |
2013
ⓘ
2016 ⓘ |
| roleInBand |
guitarist of My Morning Jacket
ⓘ
lead vocalist of My Morning Jacket ⓘ primary songwriter of My Morning Jacket ⓘ |
| soloStageName | Jim James ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1990s–present ⓘ |
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: Jim James Description of subject: Jim James is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist best known as the frontman of the rock band My Morning Jacket.
Referenced by (156)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.