Miles Davis
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Miles Davis was a pioneering American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer who profoundly shaped the development of modern jazz through landmark albums like "Kind of Blue."
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Miles Davis canonical | 196 |
| Great Characters Edition Miles Davis | 1 |
| Miles Dewey Davis III | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T274477 — 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: Miles Davis Context triple: [Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York City, hasBurial, Miles Davis]
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A.
Herbie Hancock
Herbie Hancock is an influential American jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader known for his work with Miles Davis and for pioneering jazz fusion and electronic music.
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B.
Charlie Parker
Charlie Parker was a pioneering American jazz saxophonist and composer, a leading figure in the development of bebop and one of the most influential musicians in jazz history.
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C.
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.
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D.
Duke Ellington
Duke Ellington was a pioneering American jazz composer, pianist, and bandleader whose innovative work helped define the sound and global influence of 20th-century jazz.
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E.
Earl Hines
Earl Hines was a pioneering American jazz pianist and bandleader whose innovative "trumpet-style" piano playing helped shape the development of modern jazz.
- 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: Miles Davis Target entity description: Miles Davis was a pioneering American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer who profoundly shaped the development of modern jazz through landmark albums like "Kind of Blue."
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A.
Herbie Hancock
Herbie Hancock is an influential American jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader known for his work with Miles Davis and for pioneering jazz fusion and electronic music.
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B.
Charlie Parker
Charlie Parker was a pioneering American jazz saxophonist and composer, a leading figure in the development of bebop and one of the most influential musicians in jazz history.
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C.
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.
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D.
Duke Ellington
Duke Ellington was a pioneering American jazz composer, pianist, and bandleader whose innovative work helped define the sound and global influence of 20th-century jazz.
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E.
Earl Hines
Earl Hines was a pioneering American jazz pianist and bandleader whose innovative "trumpet-style" piano playing helped shape the development of modern jazz.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (76)
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: Miles Davis Description of subject: Miles Davis was a pioneering American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer who profoundly shaped the development of modern jazz through landmark albums like "Kind of Blue."
Referenced by (198)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Duke Ellington
subject surface form:
Easy Mo Bee
subject surface form:
Columbia Records