The Crusaders
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The Crusaders were a popular American jazz-fusion and soul-jazz band known for blending jazz with funk and R&B, particularly prominent in the 1970s and 1980s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Crusaders canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5245814 — 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: The Crusaders Context triple: [Randy Crawford, associatedAct, The Crusaders]
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A.
Crusaders
The Crusaders were medieval Christian warriors from Western Europe who launched a series of religious military campaigns to the Holy Land and other regions between the 11th and 13th centuries.
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B.
Crusaders
Crusaders is the nickname of the Holy Cross Crusaders baseball team, representing the College of the Holy Cross in NCAA Division I competition.
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C.
Crusaders
The Crusaders are a professional rugby union team based in Christchurch, New Zealand, renowned as one of the most successful franchises in Super Rugby history.
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D.
Saints
"Saints" is an alternative rock song by American band The Breeders, known for its catchy, off-kilter sound and inclusion on their acclaimed 1993 album "Last Splash."
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E.
Saints
Saints is a common nickname for the St George Illawarra Dragons, a professional rugby league club based in New South Wales, Australia, competing in the National Rugby League (NRL).
- 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: The Crusaders Target entity description: The Crusaders were a popular American jazz-fusion and soul-jazz band known for blending jazz with funk and R&B, particularly prominent in the 1970s and 1980s.
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A.
Crusaders
The Crusaders were medieval Christian warriors from Western Europe who launched a series of religious military campaigns to the Holy Land and other regions between the 11th and 13th centuries.
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B.
Crusaders
Crusaders is the nickname of the Holy Cross Crusaders baseball team, representing the College of the Holy Cross in NCAA Division I competition.
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C.
Crusaders
The Crusaders are a professional rugby union team based in Christchurch, New Zealand, renowned as one of the most successful franchises in Super Rugby history.
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D.
Saints
Saints is a common nickname for the St George Illawarra Dragons, a professional rugby league club based in New South Wales, Australia, competing in the National Rugby League (NRL).
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E.
Saints
"Saints" is an alternative rock song by American band The Breeders, known for its catchy, off-kilter sound and inclusion on their acclaimed 1993 album "Last Splash."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American musical group
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jazz-fusion band ⓘ soul-jazz band ⓘ |
| activePeriod |
1970s
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1980s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Joe Sample
NERFINISHED
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Randy Crawford NERFINISHED ⓘ Stix Hooper NERFINISHED ⓘ Wayne Henderson NERFINISHED ⓘ Wilton Felder NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| formedAs | The Jazz Crusaders NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
funk
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jazz fusion ⓘ jazz-funk ⓘ rhythm and blues ⓘ soul jazz ⓘ |
| instrumentation |
bass guitar
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drums ⓘ keyboards ⓘ saxophone ⓘ |
| knownFor |
crossover success on jazz and R&B charts
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incorporating funk grooves into jazz arrangements ⓘ |
| languageOfLyrics | English ⓘ |
| notableAlbum |
Rhapsody and Blues
NERFINISHED
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Southern Comfort NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableMember |
Joe Sample
NERFINISHED
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Stix Hooper NERFINISHED ⓘ Wayne Henderson NERFINISHED ⓘ Wilton Felder NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableSongFeature | Randy Crawford vocals on "Street Life" ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Chain Reaction
NERFINISHED
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Put It Where You Want It NERFINISHED ⓘ Scratch NERFINISHED ⓘ Street Life NERFINISHED ⓘ Those Southern Knights NERFINISHED ⓘ Way Back Home NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalName | The Jazz Crusaders NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originCity | Houston, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| peakPopularity |
early 1980s
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late 1970s ⓘ |
| styleCharacteristic | blend of jazz, funk, and R&B ⓘ |
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: The Crusaders Description of subject: The Crusaders were a popular American jazz-fusion and soul-jazz band known for blending jazz with funk and R&B, particularly prominent in the 1970s and 1980s.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.