Shakey Jake Harris
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Shakey Jake Harris was an American blues harmonica player, singer, and songwriter known for his work in the Chicago blues scene during the mid-20th century.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shakey Jake Harris canonical | 4 |
| Shakey Jake | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6381009 — 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: Shakey Jake Harris Context triple: [BluesWay Records, releasedMusicBy, Shakey Jake Harris]
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A.
Dick Hogan
Dick Hogan was an American actor best remembered for his role in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1948 thriller "Rope."
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B.
Bobby Franks
Bobby Franks was a 14-year-old Chicago boy whose 1924 kidnapping and murder by Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb became one of the most infamous criminal cases in American history.
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C.
Bucky Harris
Bucky Harris was a Hall of Fame Major League Baseball manager and second baseman best known for leading the Washington Senators to the 1924 World Series championship as their young player-manager.
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D.
Harry Hinkle
Harry Hinkle is the hapless, mild-mannered TV cameraman at the center of the comedy film "The Fortune Cookie," whose staged injury scheme drives the plot’s satire of greed and morality.
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E.
Vic Hoskins
Vic Hoskins is a ruthless InGen security chief in Jurassic World who seeks to weaponize dinosaurs for military use.
- 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: Shakey Jake Harris Target entity description: Shakey Jake Harris was an American blues harmonica player, singer, and songwriter known for his work in the Chicago blues scene during the mid-20th century.
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A.
Dick Hogan
Dick Hogan was an American actor best remembered for his role in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1948 thriller "Rope."
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B.
Bobby Franks
Bobby Franks was a 14-year-old Chicago boy whose 1924 kidnapping and murder by Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb became one of the most infamous criminal cases in American history.
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C.
Bucky Harris
Bucky Harris was a Hall of Fame Major League Baseball manager and second baseman best known for leading the Washington Senators to the 1924 World Series championship as their young player-manager.
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D.
Harry Hinkle
Harry Hinkle is the hapless, mild-mannered TV cameraman at the center of the comedy film "The Fortune Cookie," whose staged injury scheme drives the plot’s satire of greed and morality.
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E.
Vic Hoskins
Vic Hoskins is a ruthless InGen security chief in Jurassic World who seeks to weaponize dinosaurs for military use.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
blues musician
ⓘ
harmonica player ⓘ human ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activeIn | Chicago blues scene ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| creativeRole | songwriter ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
African American
ⓘ
linked to:
Black Americans
|
| fieldOfWork |
blues performance
ⓘ
music ⓘ songwriting ⓘ |
| genre |
Chicago blues
ⓘ
blues ⓘ electric blues ⓘ |
| givenName | James ⓘ |
| instrument |
harmonica
ⓘ
vocals ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | Chicago blues ⓘ |
| name | Shakey Jake Harris ⓘ |
| nickname |
Shakey Jake
ⓘ
linked to:
Shakey Jake Harris
|
| notableFor |
Chicago blues harmonica playing
ⓘ
blues singing ⓘ |
| occupation |
blues singer
ⓘ
harmonica player ⓘ musician ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Chicago, Illinois
ⓘ
linked to:
Chicago
|
| workPeriod | mid-20th century ⓘ |
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: Shakey Jake Harris Description of subject: Shakey Jake Harris was an American blues harmonica player, singer, and songwriter known for his work in the Chicago blues scene during the mid-20th century.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Shakey Jake Harris