Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album

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Grammy Award category music award

The Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album is a prestigious music industry honor presented by the Recording Academy to recognize outstanding contemporary instrumental albums across genres.

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Label	Occurrences
Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album canonical	9
Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Album	2
Best Contemporary Instrumental Album	1
Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album nomination	1

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This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3905314 — 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.

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Target entity: Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album
Context triple: [Snarky Puppy, awardReceived, Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album]

A. Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance
The Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance was a music industry honor presented by the Recording Academy to recognize outstanding instrumental recordings in the pop genre.
B. Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album
The Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album is a prestigious music industry honor presented by the Recording Academy to recognize outstanding achievement in jazz instrumental album recordings.
C. Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition
The Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition is a prestigious music industry honor recognizing outstanding original instrumental works, typically awarded to composers in genres such as jazz, classical, and film music.
D. Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance
The Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance was a music industry honor presented by the Recording Academy to recognize outstanding instrumental rock recordings.
E. Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album – Culcha Vulcha
The Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album – Culcha Vulcha is the Grammy-winning contemporary instrumental album by the jazz-fusion collective Snarky Puppy.
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: Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album
Target entity description: The Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album is a prestigious music industry honor presented by the Recording Academy to recognize outstanding contemporary instrumental albums across genres.

A. Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance
The Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance was a music industry honor presented by the Recording Academy to recognize outstanding instrumental recordings in the pop genre.
B. Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album
The Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album is a prestigious music industry honor presented by the Recording Academy to recognize outstanding achievement in jazz instrumental album recordings.
C. Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition
The Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition is a prestigious music industry honor recognizing outstanding original instrumental works, typically awarded to composers in genres such as jazz, classical, and film music.
D. Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance
The Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance was a music industry honor presented by the Recording Academy to recognize outstanding instrumental rock recordings.
E. Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album – Culcha Vulcha
The Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album – Culcha Vulcha is the Grammy-winning contemporary instrumental album by the jazz-fusion collective Snarky Puppy.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (45)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Grammy Award category ⓘ music award ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album ⓘ surface form: Best Contemporary Instrumental Album
awardedFor	contemporary instrumental music ⓘ outstanding contemporary instrumental albums ⓘ
awardGivenTo	artists ⓘ engineers ⓘ mixers ⓘ producers ⓘ
categoryType	genre-crossing ⓘ
ceremonyFrequency	annual ⓘ
ceremonyLocationTypical	Los Angeles ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
eligibility	commercially released recordings ⓘ
excludesWorkType	EP ⓘ single ⓘ
firstAwarded	43rd Annual Grammy Awards ⓘ
formerName	Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Album
hasAwardedWorkType	album ⓘ
hasComponent	nominations ⓘ winner ⓘ
hasWebsite	https://www.grammy.com ⓘ
inception	2001 ⓘ
includesGenre	R&B ⓘ electronic ⓘ jazz ⓘ pop ⓘ rock ⓘ
languageOfName	English ⓘ
medium	recorded music ⓘ
notableRecipient	Booker T. Jones ⓘ Fourplay ⓘ Jeff Lorber ⓘ surface form: Jeff Lorber Fusion Larry Carlton ⓘ Pat Metheny ⓘ Snarky Puppy NERFINISHED ⓘ
organizer	Recording Academy ⓘ surface form: National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
parentOrganization	Recording Academy ⓘ
partOf	Grammy Award ⓘ surface form: Grammy Awards
presentedBy	Recording Academy ⓘ surface form: The Recording Academy
scope	international ⓘ
selectionCriterion	artistic achievement ⓘ overall excellence in the recording industry ⓘ technical proficiency ⓘ
selectionProcess	voting by Recording Academy members ⓘ

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Snarky Puppy → awardReceived → Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album ⓘ

Chris Botti → hasWon → Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album ⓘ

this entity surface form: Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Album

Rodrigo y Gabriela → awardReceived → Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album ⓘ

Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah → awardNomination → Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album ⓘ

Afrodeezia → awardReceived → Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album ⓘ

this entity surface form: Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album nomination

Afrodeezia → nominatedFor → Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album ⓘ

Laid Black → awardNomination → Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album ⓘ

Culcha Vulcha → awardReceived → Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album ⓘ

Empire Central → awardReceived → Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album ⓘ

Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album – Sylva (with Metropole Orkest) → awardReceived → Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album ⓘ

subject surface form: Sylva (with Metropole Orkest)

Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album – Culcha Vulcha → awardReceived → Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album ⓘ

subject surface form: Culcha Vulcha

Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album → formerName → Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Album

Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album → alsoKnownAs → Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album ⓘ

this entity surface form: Best Contemporary Instrumental Album

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