Percy Humphrey
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Percy Humphrey was an American jazz trumpeter and bandleader closely associated with the New Orleans traditional jazz scene.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Percy Humphrey canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5080869 — 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: Percy Humphrey Context triple: [Preservation Hall Jazz Band, notableMember, Percy Humphrey]
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A.
Percy Kilbride
Percy Kilbride was an American character actor best known for playing the amiable, slow-talking Pa Kettle in a popular series of mid-20th-century comedy films.
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B.
John Percival
John Percival was a 19th-century British educator and Anglican bishop noted for his influential headmasterships and progressive reforms in public schooling.
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C.
Humphrey Dixon
Humphrey Dixon is a British film editor known for his work on the acclaimed period drama "A Room with a View" (1985) and other notable films.
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D.
Percy Green
Percy Green was a civil rights activist and former McDonnell Douglas employee whose discrimination lawsuit led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green, which established a key framework for proving employment discrimination.
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E.
Percy Alleline
Percy Alleline is a senior British intelligence officer in John le Carré's espionage novel "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy," notable for his ambitious rise within the Circus and his role in the mole-hunt intrigue.
- 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: Percy Humphrey Target entity description: Percy Humphrey was an American jazz trumpeter and bandleader closely associated with the New Orleans traditional jazz scene.
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A.
Percy Kilbride
Percy Kilbride was an American character actor best known for playing the amiable, slow-talking Pa Kettle in a popular series of mid-20th-century comedy films.
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B.
John Percival
John Percival was a 19th-century British educator and Anglican bishop noted for his influential headmasterships and progressive reforms in public schooling.
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C.
Humphrey Dixon
Humphrey Dixon is a British film editor known for his work on the acclaimed period drama "A Room with a View" (1985) and other notable films.
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D.
Percy Green
Percy Green was a civil rights activist and former McDonnell Douglas employee whose discrimination lawsuit led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green, which established a key framework for proving employment discrimination.
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E.
Percy Alleline
Percy Alleline is a senior British intelligence officer in John le Carré's espionage novel "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy," notable for his ambitious rise within the Circus and his role in the mole-hunt intrigue.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bandleader
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human ⓘ jazz trumpeter ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1990s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1920s ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Eureka Brass Band
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New Orleans brass band tradition NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1905-01-13 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1995-07-22 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Black Americans
ⓘ
surface form:
African American
|
| familyName | Humphrey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Willie Eli Humphrey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
New Orleans jazz
NERFINISHED
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jazz ⓘ traditional jazz ⓘ |
| givenName | Percy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| instrument | trumpet ⓘ |
| memberOf | Preservation Hall Jazz Band NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mother | Ida Mae Humphrey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement | New Orleans traditional jazz scene ⓘ |
| notableRole | leader of the Eureka Brass Band ⓘ |
| notableWork | Preservation Hall Jazz Band performances NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
bandleader
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musician ⓘ trumpeter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | New Orleans, Louisiana, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | New Orleans, Louisiana, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sibling |
Earl Humphrey
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Willie Humphrey 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: Percy Humphrey Description of subject: Percy Humphrey was an American jazz trumpeter and bandleader closely associated with the New Orleans traditional jazz scene.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Preservation Hall Jazz Band