Jose James
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Jose James is an American vocalist and songwriter known for blending jazz, soul, hip-hop, and R&B into a contemporary, genre-crossing sound.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jose James canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5887756 — 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: Jose James Context triple: [Samora Pinderhughes, collaboratedWith, Jose James]
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A.
Josh James
Josh James is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and former CEO of web analytics company Omniture.
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B.
Blake James
Blake James is an American college athletics administrator best known for serving as the athletic director at major universities, including the University of Miami and later Boston College.
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C.
Jameson Thomas
Jameson Thomas was a British actor best known for his roles in early 20th-century films, including several classics of the 1930s Hollywood era.
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D.
Joe Hicks
Joe Hicks is a former American Major League Baseball outfielder who played in the early 1960s, primarily known for his time with the Washington Senators and New York Mets.
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E.
Mark James
Mark James is an American songwriter best known for penning enduring hits such as "Suspicious Minds" and "Always on My Mind."
- 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: Jose James Target entity description: Jose James is an American vocalist and songwriter known for blending jazz, soul, hip-hop, and R&B into a contemporary, genre-crossing sound.
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A.
Josh James
Josh James is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and former CEO of web analytics company Omniture.
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B.
Blake James
Blake James is an American college athletics administrator best known for serving as the athletic director at major universities, including the University of Miami and later Boston College.
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C.
Jameson Thomas
Jameson Thomas was a British actor best known for his roles in early 20th-century films, including several classics of the 1930s Hollywood era.
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D.
Joe Hicks
Joe Hicks is a former American Major League Baseball outfielder who played in the early 1960s, primarily known for his time with the Washington Senators and New York Mets.
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E.
Mark James
Mark James is an American songwriter best known for penning enduring hits such as "Suspicious Minds" and "Always on My Mind."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
person
ⓘ
songwriter ⓘ vocalist ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 2000s ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
Chris Dave
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Flying Lotus NERFINISHED ⓘ Pino Palladino NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Glasper NERFINISHED ⓘ Taylor McFerrin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1978 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | The New School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
R&B
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contemporary jazz ⓘ hip hop ⓘ jazz ⓘ neo soul ⓘ soul ⓘ |
| hasMusicalInfluence |
Billie Holiday
NERFINISHED
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J Dilla NERFINISHED ⓘ John Coltrane NERFINISHED ⓘ Marvin Gaye NERFINISHED ⓘ Prince NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRole | bandleader ⓘ |
| instrument | voice ⓘ |
| knownFor | blending jazz, soul, hip-hop, and R&B ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Blackmagic
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lean On Me NERFINISHED ⓘ Love in a Time of Madness NERFINISHED ⓘ No Beginning No End NERFINISHED ⓘ No Beginning No End 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ The Dreamer NERFINISHED ⓘ While You Were Sleeping NERFINISHED ⓘ Yesterday I Had the Blues: The Music of Billie Holiday NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
record producer
ⓘ
singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Blue Note Records
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Brownswood Recordings NERFINISHED ⓘ Rainbow Blonde Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Verve Records ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| style | genre-crossing sound ⓘ |
| vocalType | baritone ⓘ |
| website | https://www.josejamesmusic.com/ ⓘ |
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: Jose James Description of subject: Jose James is an American vocalist and songwriter known for blending jazz, soul, hip-hop, and R&B into a contemporary, genre-crossing sound.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.