Maynard Ferguson
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Maynard Ferguson was a Canadian jazz trumpeter and bandleader renowned for his virtuosic high-note trumpet playing and energetic big band performances.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Maynard Ferguson canonical | 5 |
| Maynard Ferguson Orchestra | 1 |
| Maynard Ferguson band | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1393578 — 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: Maynard Ferguson Context triple: [Ferguson, hasNotableBearer, Maynard Ferguson]
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A.
Gary Burton
Gary Burton is an influential American jazz vibraphonist, bandleader, and educator known for pioneering the four-mallet technique and advancing jazz fusion.
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B.
Roy Ayers
Roy Ayers is an American vibraphonist, singer, and composer widely regarded as a pioneer of jazz-funk and acid jazz, known for his smooth grooves and influential 1970s recordings.
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C.
Mitch Henderson
Mitch Henderson is an American college basketball coach best known for leading the Princeton University men’s basketball program.
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D.
Tony Williams
Tony Williams was a pioneering American jazz drummer best known for his innovative work with the Miles Davis Quintet and his influential role in the development of modern jazz fusion.
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E.
Tony Williams
Tony Williams is an American singer, songwriter, and producer best known for his frequent collaborations with Kanye West and contributions to the G.O.O.D. Music collective.
- 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: Maynard Ferguson Target entity description: Maynard Ferguson was a Canadian jazz trumpeter and bandleader renowned for his virtuosic high-note trumpet playing and energetic big band performances.
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A.
Gary Burton
Gary Burton is an influential American jazz vibraphonist, bandleader, and educator known for pioneering the four-mallet technique and advancing jazz fusion.
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B.
Roy Ayers
Roy Ayers is an American vibraphonist, singer, and composer widely regarded as a pioneer of jazz-funk and acid jazz, known for his smooth grooves and influential 1970s recordings.
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C.
Mitch Henderson
Mitch Henderson is an American college basketball coach best known for leading the Princeton University men’s basketball program.
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D.
Tony Williams
Tony Williams was a pioneering American jazz drummer best known for his innovative work with the Miles Davis Quintet and his influential role in the development of modern jazz fusion.
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E.
Tony Williams
Tony Williams is an American singer, songwriter, and producer best known for his frequent collaborations with Kanye West and contributions to the G.O.O.D. Music collective.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Maynard Ferguson Description of subject: Maynard Ferguson was a Canadian jazz trumpeter and bandleader renowned for his virtuosic high-note trumpet playing and energetic big band performances.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Maynard Ferguson Orchestra
this entity surface form:
Maynard Ferguson band