Phil Woods
E454890
Phil Woods was an acclaimed American jazz alto saxophonist and bandleader known for his virtuosic bebop style and influential recordings.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Phil Woods canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4568702 — 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: Phil Woods Context triple: [Confirmation, recordedBy, Phil Woods]
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A.
Art Pepper
Art Pepper was an influential American jazz alto saxophonist known for his lyrical improvisation and key role in the West Coast jazz movement.
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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.
Charles Lloyd
Charles Lloyd is an influential American jazz saxophonist, flutist, and composer known for his genre-blending style and acclaimed work since the 1960s.
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D.
Freddie Hubbard
Freddie Hubbard was an influential American jazz trumpeter known for his powerful tone, virtuosic technique, and key contributions to hard bop and post-bop recordings from the 1960s onward.
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E.
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.
- 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: Phil Woods Target entity description: Phil Woods was an acclaimed American jazz alto saxophonist and bandleader known for his virtuosic bebop style and influential recordings.
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A.
Art Pepper
Art Pepper was an influential American jazz alto saxophonist known for his lyrical improvisation and key role in the West Coast jazz movement.
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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.
Charles Lloyd
Charles Lloyd is an influential American jazz saxophonist, flutist, and composer known for his genre-blending style and acclaimed work since the 1960s.
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D.
Freddie Hubbard
Freddie Hubbard was an influential American jazz trumpeter known for his powerful tone, virtuosic technique, and key contributions to hard bop and post-bop recordings from the 1960s onward.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
alto saxophonist
ⓘ
bandleader ⓘ human ⓘ jazz musician ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Grammy Award
ⓘ
NEA Jazz Masters Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Philip Wells Woods NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | emphysema ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1931-11-02 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2015-09-29 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Juilliard School ⓘ |
| genre |
bebop
ⓘ
hard bop ⓘ jazz ⓘ |
| influenced |
Charles McPherson
NERFINISHED
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Kenny Garrett NERFINISHED ⓘ many contemporary alto saxophonists ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Benny Carter
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Charlie Parker NERFINISHED ⓘ Johnny Hodges NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| instrument | alto saxophone ⓘ |
| memberOf |
European Rhythm Machine
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Phil Woods Quartet NERFINISHED ⓘ Phil Woods Quintet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement | bebop ⓘ |
| name | Phil Woods NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
influential jazz recordings
ⓘ
virtuosic bebop alto saxophone style ⓘ |
| notableWork |
album "Musique du Bois"
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
album "Phil Woods and his European Rhythm Machine" ⓘ album "Rights of Swing" NERFINISHED ⓘ album "Warm Woods" NERFINISHED ⓘ solo on Billy Joel song "Just the Way You Are" ⓘ |
| occupation |
bandleader
ⓘ
composer ⓘ musician ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Springfield, Massachusetts, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Concord Records
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Muse Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Prestige Records NERFINISHED ⓘ RCA Records ⓘ |
| spouse | Chan Parker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| studied |
clarinet
ⓘ
saxophone ⓘ |
| workedWith |
Clark Terry
NERFINISHED
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Dizzy Gillespie NERFINISHED ⓘ Gene Quill NERFINISHED ⓘ Quincy Jones NERFINISHED ⓘ Thelonious Monk NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Phil Woods Description of subject: Phil Woods was an acclaimed American jazz alto saxophonist and bandleader known for his virtuosic bebop style and influential recordings.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
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