Jimmy McPartland
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Jimmy McPartland was an American cornetist and bandleader best known as a key figure in the early Chicago jazz scene and a member of the pioneering Austin High School Gang.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jimmy McPartland canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5400489 — 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: Jimmy McPartland Context triple: [Chicago jazz, notableMusicianAssociated, Jimmy McPartland]
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A.
Eddie Condon
Eddie Condon was an influential American jazz guitarist and bandleader known for his key role in developing the Chicago and Dixieland jazz styles.
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B.
Artie Shaw
Artie Shaw was an American jazz clarinetist and big band leader renowned for his virtuosity, innovative arrangements, and influential recordings during the swing era.
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C.
Benny Carter
Benny Carter was an influential American jazz alto saxophonist, composer, arranger, and bandleader whose career spanned over six decades.
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D.
Lionel Hampton
Lionel Hampton was an influential American jazz vibraphonist, bandleader, composer, and percussionist, renowned for his work with Benny Goodman and for helping popularize the vibraphone in jazz.
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E.
Johnny Dodds
Johnny Dodds was an influential early jazz clarinetist and bandleader associated with the New Orleans and Chicago jazz scenes of the 1920s.
- 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: Jimmy McPartland Target entity description: Jimmy McPartland was an American cornetist and bandleader best known as a key figure in the early Chicago jazz scene and a member of the pioneering Austin High School Gang.
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A.
Eddie Condon
Eddie Condon was an influential American jazz guitarist and bandleader known for his key role in developing the Chicago and Dixieland jazz styles.
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B.
Artie Shaw
Artie Shaw was an American jazz clarinetist and big band leader renowned for his virtuosity, innovative arrangements, and influential recordings during the swing era.
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C.
Benny Carter
Benny Carter was an influential American jazz alto saxophonist, composer, arranger, and bandleader whose career spanned over six decades.
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D.
Lionel Hampton
Lionel Hampton was an influential American jazz vibraphonist, bandleader, composer, and percussionist, renowned for his work with Benny Goodman and for helping popularize the vibraphone in jazz.
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E.
Johnny Dodds
Johnny Dodds was an influential early jazz clarinetist and bandleader associated with the New Orleans and Chicago jazz scenes of the 1920s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bandleader
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cornetist ⓘ human ⓘ jazz musician ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Pinelawn Memorial Park, Farmingdale, New York, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | lung cancer ⓘ |
| conflictParticipatedIn | World War II ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1907-03-15 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1991-03-13 ⓘ |
| familyName | McPartland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | James Dugald McPartland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
Chicago jazz
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jazz ⓘ |
| givenName | James ⓘ |
| influenced | later Chicago-style jazz musicians ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
King Oliver
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Louis Armstrong NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| instrument | cornet ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Austin High School Gang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryService | United States Army ⓘ |
| movement | Chicago jazz school NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being a key figure in the early Chicago jazz scene
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collaborations with pianist Marian McPartland ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Chicago-style jazz recordings of the 1920s and 1930s
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recordings with the Austin High School Gang ⓘ |
| occupation |
bandleader
ⓘ
cornetist ⓘ musician ⓘ |
| performedWith |
Benny Goodman
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bix Beiderbecke NERFINISHED ⓘ Bud Freeman NERFINISHED ⓘ Eddie Condon NERFINISHED ⓘ Frank Teschemacher NERFINISHED ⓘ Gene Krupa NERFINISHED ⓘ Mezz Mezzrow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Chicago, Illinois, United States ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Port Washington, New York, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Brunswick Records
NERFINISHED
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Capitol Records ⓘ Decca Records ⓘ |
| relative | Richard McPartland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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New York City ⓘ
surface form:
New York City, New York, United States
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| sibling | Richard McPartland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse |
Dorothy Williams
NERFINISHED
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Marian McPartland 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: Jimmy McPartland Description of subject: Jimmy McPartland was an American cornetist and bandleader best known as a key figure in the early Chicago jazz scene and a member of the pioneering Austin High School Gang.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.