Jay Dee

E136415

Jay Dee was the influential American hip-hop producer and rapper J Dilla, renowned for his innovative, soulful, and off-kilter beat-making style.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Jay Dee canonical 10
J-Dee 1

Statements (51)

Predicate Object
instanceOf DJ
hip hop musician
human
rapper
record producer
songwriter
activeYearsEnd 2006
activeYearsStart 1990
alsoKnownAs J Dilla
James Dewitt Yancey
causeOfDeath cardiac arrest
collaboratedWith A Tribe Called Quest
Busta Rhymes
Common
D'Angelo
Erykah Badu
The Roots
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1974-02-07
dateOfDeath 2006-02-10
familyName Yancey
genre alternative hip hop
hip hop
neo soul
givenName James
influenced 9th Wonder
Flying Lotus
Kanye West
Madlib
Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson
surface form: Questlove
influentialIn Detroit hip hop scene
memberOf Slum Village
Soulquarians
The Ummah
name Jay Dee self-link
notableFor innovative off-kilter drum programming
soulful sample-based production
notableWork Donuts
Fantastic, Vol. 2
Welcome 2 Detroit
occupation DJ
rapper
record producer
songwriter
placeOfBirth Detroit, Michigan, United States of America
surface form: Detroit, Michigan, United States
placeOfDeath Los Angeles, California, United States of America
surface form: Los Angeles, California, United States
recordLabel BBE
surface form: BBE Records

MCA Records
Stones Throw Records
styleCharacteristic heavy use of obscure soul and jazz samples
swinging unquantized drum patterns

How these facts were elicited

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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: Jay Dee
Description of subject: Jay Dee was the influential American hip-hop producer and rapper J Dilla, renowned for his innovative, soulful, and off-kilter beat-making style.

Referenced by (11)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

J Dilla alsoKnownAs Jay Dee
J Dilla alsoKnownAs Jay Dee
this entity surface form: J-Dee
Electric Circus producer Jay Dee
Mama’s Gun producer Jay Dee
Slum Village associatedAct Jay Dee
Jay Dee name Jay Dee self-link
James Yancey stageName Jay Dee
Erykah Badu album "Mama’s Gun" producer Jay Dee
subject surface form: Mama’s Gun
1st Born Second producer Jay Dee
Phrenology (album) by The Roots producer Jay Dee
subject surface form: Phrenology