Ellington Jordan
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Ellington Jordan was an American songwriter best known for co-writing the soul classic "I'd Rather Go Blind," popularized by Etta James.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ellington Jordan canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10734015 — 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: Ellington Jordan Context triple: [I'd Rather Go Blind, composer, Ellington Jordan]
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A.
Louis Thomas Jordan
Louis Thomas Jordan was an influential American saxophonist, bandleader, and singer known as the "King of the Jukebox" for his pioneering role in jump blues and early rhythm and blues music.
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B.
Louis Jordan
Louis Jordan was an influential American saxophonist, bandleader, and singer known as a pioneer of jump blues and a key figure in the development of rhythm and blues and early rock and roll.
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C.
Leon Henderson
Leon Henderson was an American economist and government official who played a key role in managing wartime price controls and rationing during World War II.
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D.
Cecil McBee
Cecil McBee is an American jazz double bassist known for his work in the 1960s avant-garde and post-bop scenes and collaborations with numerous influential bandleaders.
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E.
Johnnie Johnson
Johnnie Johnson was an influential American blues and rock and roll pianist best known for his long-time collaboration with Chuck Berry.
- 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: Ellington Jordan Target entity description: Ellington Jordan was an American songwriter best known for co-writing the soul classic "I'd Rather Go Blind," popularized by Etta James.
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A.
Louis Thomas Jordan
Louis Thomas Jordan was an influential American saxophonist, bandleader, and singer known as the "King of the Jukebox" for his pioneering role in jump blues and early rhythm and blues music.
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B.
Louis Jordan
Louis Jordan was an influential American saxophonist, bandleader, and singer known as a pioneer of jump blues and a key figure in the development of rhythm and blues and early rock and roll.
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C.
Leon Henderson
Leon Henderson was an American economist and government official who played a key role in managing wartime price controls and rationing during World War II.
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D.
Cecil McBee
Cecil McBee is an American jazz double bassist known for his work in the 1960s avant-garde and post-bop scenes and collaborations with numerous influential bandleaders.
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E.
Johnnie Johnson
Johnnie Johnson was an influential American blues and rock and roll pianist best known for his long-time collaboration with Chuck Berry.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American songwriter
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singer ⓘ song ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| coWrote |
I'd Rather Go Blind
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linked to:
I’d Rather Go Blind
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| genre |
soul music
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soul music ⓘ soul music ⓘ |
| notableWork |
I'd Rather Go Blind
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linked to:
I’d Rather Go Blind
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| occupation | songwriter ⓘ |
| performer | Etta James ⓘ |
| workPopularizedBy | Etta James ⓘ |
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: Ellington Jordan Description of subject: Ellington Jordan was an American songwriter best known for co-writing the soul classic "I'd Rather Go Blind," popularized by Etta James.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
I’d Rather Go Blind
subject linked to:
I’d Rather Go Blind