Johnny Hodges
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Johnny Hodges was a renowned American alto saxophonist best known for his long tenure as a featured soloist in the Duke Ellington Orchestra, where his lyrical, blues-inflected style became a defining sound of the band.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Johnny Hodges canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1070250 — 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: Johnny Hodges Context triple: [Duke Ellington, collaboratedWith, Johnny Hodges]
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A.
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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B.
Freddie Green
Freddie Green was an American jazz guitarist renowned for his long tenure with the Count Basie Orchestra and his subtle, propulsive rhythm guitar style that defined big band swing.
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C.
Willie Wise
Willie Wise is a former American professional basketball forward best known for his standout play in the ABA during the early 1970s.
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D.
Bill Cobbs
Bill Cobbs is an American character actor known for his prolific supporting roles in film and television, including appearances in movies like "Night at the Museum," "Demolition Man," and "The Hudsucker Proxy."
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E.
Mack Robinson
Mack Robinson was an American sprinter best known for winning the silver medal in the 200-meter race at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, finishing behind Jesse Owens.
- 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: Johnny Hodges Target entity description: Johnny Hodges was a renowned American alto saxophonist best known for his long tenure as a featured soloist in the Duke Ellington Orchestra, where his lyrical, blues-inflected style became a defining sound of the band.
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A.
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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B.
Freddie Green
Freddie Green was an American jazz guitarist renowned for his long tenure with the Count Basie Orchestra and his subtle, propulsive rhythm guitar style that defined big band swing.
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C.
Willie Wise
Willie Wise is a former American professional basketball forward best known for his standout play in the ABA during the early 1970s.
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D.
Bill Cobbs
Bill Cobbs is an American character actor known for his prolific supporting roles in film and television, including appearances in movies like "Night at the Museum," "Demolition Man," and "The Hudsucker Proxy."
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E.
Mack Robinson
Mack Robinson was an American sprinter best known for winning the silver medal in the 200-meter race at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, finishing behind Jesse Owens.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
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: Johnny Hodges Description of subject: Johnny Hodges was a renowned American alto saxophonist best known for his long tenure as a featured soloist in the Duke Ellington Orchestra, where his lyrical, blues-inflected style became a defining sound of the band.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Duke Ellington