Paul Desmond
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Paul Desmond was an American jazz alto saxophonist and composer best known for his work with the Dave Brubeck Quartet and for writing the classic tune "Take Five."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Paul Desmond canonical | 18 |
| Paul Desmond and Jim Hall | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3899115 — 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: Paul Desmond Context triple: [Chet Baker, associatedAct, Paul Desmond]
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A.
Lester Young
Lester Young was an influential American tenor saxophonist whose cool, lyrical style helped define the sound of Kansas City jazz and profoundly shaped modern jazz improvisation.
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B.
Donald Byrd
Donald Byrd was an influential American jazz trumpeter and bandleader known for his work in hard bop and later pioneering jazz-funk and fusion styles.
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C.
Joe Pass
Joe Pass was an American jazz guitarist renowned for his virtuosic solo guitar work, sophisticated harmonies, and influential recordings in bebop and mainstream jazz.
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D.
Gerry Mulligan
Gerry Mulligan was an influential American jazz baritone saxophonist, composer, and arranger known for his work in cool jazz and collaborations with artists like Chet Baker.
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E.
Louie Bellson
Louie Bellson was an American jazz drummer, composer, and bandleader renowned for his virtuosic technique, pioneering use of double bass drums, and collaborations with major swing and big band leaders.
- 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: Paul Desmond Target entity description: Paul Desmond was an American jazz alto saxophonist and composer best known for his work with the Dave Brubeck Quartet and for writing the classic tune "Take Five."
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A.
Lester Young
Lester Young was an influential American tenor saxophonist whose cool, lyrical style helped define the sound of Kansas City jazz and profoundly shaped modern jazz improvisation.
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B.
Donald Byrd
Donald Byrd was an influential American jazz trumpeter and bandleader known for his work in hard bop and later pioneering jazz-funk and fusion styles.
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C.
Joe Pass
Joe Pass was an American jazz guitarist renowned for his virtuosic solo guitar work, sophisticated harmonies, and influential recordings in bebop and mainstream jazz.
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D.
Gerry Mulligan
Gerry Mulligan was an influential American jazz baritone saxophonist, composer, and arranger known for his work in cool jazz and collaborations with artists like Chet Baker.
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E.
Louie Bellson
Louie Bellson was an American jazz drummer, composer, and bandleader renowned for his virtuosic technique, pioneering use of double bass drums, and collaborations with major swing and big band leaders.
- 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: Paul Desmond Description of subject: Paul Desmond was an American jazz alto saxophonist and composer best known for his work with the Dave Brubeck Quartet and for writing the classic tune "Take Five."
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
"I'm Old Fashioned"
subject surface form:
All the King's Men (2006 film)
this entity surface form:
Paul Desmond and Jim Hall