Don Alias

E225721

drummer human jazz musician percussionist

Don Alias was an American jazz percussionist and drummer renowned for his versatile work in fusion, Latin jazz, and collaborations with artists like Miles Davis and Weather Report.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Don Alias canonical	7
Don Alias (percussion)	1
Don Alias as drummer	1

Statements (30)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	drummer ⓘ human ⓘ jazz musician ⓘ percussionist ⓘ
artisticStyle	fusion of jazz and Latin rhythms ⓘ
associatedAct	Latin jazz groups ⓘ Miles Davis ⓘ Weather Report ⓘ jazz fusion ensembles ⓘ
citizenship	American ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America ⓘ
familyName	Alias ⓘ
fieldOfWork	jazz performance ⓘ music ⓘ studio recording ⓘ
genre	Latin jazz ⓘ jazz ⓘ jazz fusion ⓘ
givenName	Don ⓘ
instrument	drums ⓘ percussion ⓘ
name	Don Alias self-link ⓘ
notableFor	session work with major jazz artists ⓘ versatile percussion work ⓘ
notableWork	collaborations with Miles Davis ⓘ collaborations with Weather Report ⓘ work in Latin jazz ⓘ work in jazz fusion ⓘ
occupation	drummer ⓘ percussionist ⓘ

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: Don Alias
Description of subject: Don Alias was an American jazz percussionist and drummer renowned for his versatile work in fusion, Latin jazz, and collaborations with artists like Miles Davis and Weather Report.

Referenced by (9)

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

Mingus → featuresMusician → Don Alias ⓘ

Shadows and Light → featuresMusician → Don Alias ⓘ

Shadows and Light → performer → Don Alias ⓘ

Bitches Brew → featuredMusician → Don Alias ⓘ

The Dry Cleaner from Des Moines → associatedAct → Don Alias ⓘ

The Dry Cleaner from Des Moines → hasKeyPerformerOnRecording → Don Alias ⓘ

this entity surface form: Don Alias (percussion)

Don Alias → name → Don Alias self-link ⓘ

concert film "Shadows and Light" → performer → Don Alias ⓘ

subject surface form: Shadows and Light

concert film "Shadows and Light" → featuresArtistRole → Don Alias ⓘ

subject surface form: Shadows and Light

this entity surface form: Don Alias as drummer