Eric Dolphy
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Eric Dolphy was an innovative American jazz multi-instrumentalist and composer known for his pioneering work in avant-garde jazz and his virtuosic performances on alto saxophone, bass clarinet, and flute.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Eric Dolphy canonical | 13 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5572222 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Eric Dolphy Context triple: [Charles Mingus, influenced, Eric Dolphy]
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A.
Ornette Coleman
Ornette Coleman was a pioneering American jazz saxophonist and composer who helped launch the free jazz movement with his innovative, harmolodic approach to improvisation and composition.
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B.
Archie Shepp
Archie Shepp is an American jazz saxophonist, composer, and educator known for his avant-garde style and politically charged works in the 1960s and beyond.
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C.
Charlie Haden
Charlie Haden was an influential American jazz double bassist and composer known for his work with Ornette Coleman and for founding the Liberation Music Orchestra.
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D.
Cecil Taylor
Cecil Taylor was an American pianist and poet renowned as a pioneering figure in avant-garde and free jazz, celebrated for his highly percussive, complex, and improvisational playing style.
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E.
Lee Konitz
Lee Konitz was an influential American jazz alto saxophonist and composer, best known for his cool jazz style and work with the Miles Davis Nonet on the landmark "Birth of the Cool" sessions.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Eric Dolphy Target entity description: Eric Dolphy was an innovative American jazz multi-instrumentalist and composer known for his pioneering work in avant-garde jazz and his virtuosic performances on alto saxophone, bass clarinet, and flute.
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A.
Ornette Coleman
Ornette Coleman was a pioneering American jazz saxophonist and composer who helped launch the free jazz movement with his innovative, harmolodic approach to improvisation and composition.
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B.
Archie Shepp
Archie Shepp is an American jazz saxophonist, composer, and educator known for his avant-garde style and politically charged works in the 1960s and beyond.
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C.
Charlie Haden
Charlie Haden was an influential American jazz double bassist and composer known for his work with Ornette Coleman and for founding the Liberation Music Orchestra.
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D.
Cecil Taylor
Cecil Taylor was an American pianist and poet renowned as a pioneering figure in avant-garde and free jazz, celebrated for his highly percussive, complex, and improvisational playing style.
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E.
Lee Konitz
Lee Konitz was an influential American jazz alto saxophonist and composer, best known for his cool jazz style and work with the Miles Davis Nonet on the landmark "Birth of the Cool" sessions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
avant-garde jazz musician
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composer ⓘ human ⓘ jazz musician ⓘ multi-instrumentalist ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1964 ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1940s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Booker Little
NERFINISHED
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Charles Mingus NERFINISHED ⓘ Chico Hamilton NERFINISHED ⓘ Freddie Hubbard NERFINISHED ⓘ George Russell NERFINISHED ⓘ John Coltrane NERFINISHED ⓘ Mal Waldron NERFINISHED ⓘ Oliver Nelson NERFINISHED ⓘ Ron Carter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California, United States ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | diabetic coma ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1928-06-20 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1964-06-29 ⓘ |
| familyName | Dolphy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Eric Allan Dolphy Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
avant-garde jazz
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free jazz ⓘ jazz ⓘ |
| givenName | Eric NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| instrument |
alto saxophone
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bass clarinet ⓘ clarinet ⓘ flute ⓘ piccolo ⓘ |
| movement |
avant-garde jazz
ⓘ
free jazz ⓘ |
| notableComposition |
Hat and Beard
NERFINISHED
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Out to Lunch NERFINISHED ⓘ Something Sweet, Something Tender NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableRecording | The Complete Last Recordings: In Hilversum & Paris 1964 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Far Cry
NERFINISHED
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Out There NERFINISHED ⓘ Out to Lunch! NERFINISHED ⓘ Outward Bound NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
bandleader
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composer ⓘ musician ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Los Angeles, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Berlin, Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Blue Note Records
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New Jazz Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Prestige Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Eric Dolphy Description of subject: Eric Dolphy was an innovative American jazz multi-instrumentalist and composer known for his pioneering work in avant-garde jazz and his virtuosic performances on alto saxophone, bass clarinet, and flute.
Referenced by (13)
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