Lloyd Price
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Lloyd Price was an influential American R&B singer and songwriter best known for 1950s hits like "Lawdy Miss Clawdy" and "Stagger Lee," which helped shape early rock and roll.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lloyd Price canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6876343 — 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: Lloyd Price Context triple: [ABC-Paramount, notableArtist, Lloyd Price]
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A.
Lowell Fulson
Lowell Fulson was an influential American blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter known for shaping West Coast blues and inspiring later electric blues and R&B artists.
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B.
Bobby Bland
Bobby Bland was an influential American blues and soul singer known for his smooth, expressive vocal style and a string of R&B hits from the 1950s through the 1970s.
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C.
Bobby Robinson
Bobby Robinson is a songwriter best known for his work on the song "Honey."
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D.
Earl Hooker
Earl Hooker was an influential American Chicago blues guitarist renowned for his slide guitar work and innovative electric blues style.
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E.
Johnny Otis
Johnny Otis was an influential American bandleader, songwriter, producer, and key figure in the development of rhythm and blues who helped launch the careers of numerous major artists.
- 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: Lloyd Price Target entity description: Lloyd Price was an influential American R&B singer and songwriter best known for 1950s hits like "Lawdy Miss Clawdy" and "Stagger Lee," which helped shape early rock and roll.
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A.
Lowell Fulson
Lowell Fulson was an influential American blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter known for shaping West Coast blues and inspiring later electric blues and R&B artists.
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B.
Bobby Bland
Bobby Bland was an influential American blues and soul singer known for his smooth, expressive vocal style and a string of R&B hits from the 1950s through the 1970s.
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C.
Bobby Robinson
Bobby Robinson is a songwriter best known for his work on the song "Honey."
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D.
Earl Hooker
Earl Hooker was an influential American Chicago blues guitarist renowned for his slide guitar work and innovative electric blues style.
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E.
Johnny Otis
Johnny Otis was an influential American bandleader, songwriter, producer, and key figure in the development of rhythm and blues who helped launch the careers of numerous major artists.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
rhythm and blues musician ⓘ rock and roll musician ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | early 1950s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Dave Bartholomew
ⓘ
Fats Domino ⓘ Little Richard ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Rhythm and Blues Foundation Pioneer Award
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induction into Louisiana Music Hall of Fame ⓘ induction into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ⓘ |
| businessActivity |
concert promotion
ⓘ
food industry entrepreneur ⓘ owned record labels ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | complications from diabetes ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1933-03-09 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2021-05-03 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
African American
ⓘ
linked to:
Black Americans
|
| familyName | Price ⓘ |
| genre |
rhythm and blues
ⓘ
rock and roll ⓘ soul music ⓘ |
| givenName | Lloyd ⓘ |
| hasInfluenced |
New Orleans R&B musicians
ⓘ
early rock and roll artists ⓘ |
| instrument | vocals ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| militaryConflict | Korean War ⓘ |
| militaryService | United States Army ⓘ |
| name | Lloyd Price ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
helped shape early rock and roll
ⓘ
pioneer of New Orleans R&B sound ⓘ |
| notableWork |
I’m Gonna Get Married
ⓘ
Just Because ⓘ Lawdy Miss Clawdy ⓘ Personality ⓘ Stagger Lee ⓘ
linked to:
"Stagger Lee"
|
| occupation |
singer
ⓘ
songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Kenner, Louisiana, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Kenner, Louisiana
|
| placeOfDeath |
New Rochelle, New York, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
New Rochelle, New York
|
| recordLabel |
ABC-Paramount Records
ⓘ
linked to:
ABC Records
KRC Records ⓘ Specialty Records ⓘ |
| residence | New York, United States ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| yearOfRockAndRollHallOfFameInduction | 1998 ⓘ |
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: Lloyd Price Description of subject: Lloyd Price was an influential American R&B singer and songwriter best known for 1950s hits like "Lawdy Miss Clawdy" and "Stagger Lee," which helped shape early rock and roll.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.