Zakir Hussain
E561513
Zakir Hussain is a renowned Indian tabla virtuoso and composer, celebrated worldwide for his mastery of Indian classical percussion and his influential cross-cultural collaborations.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Zakir Hussain canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6009396 — 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: Zakir Hussain Context triple: [Mickey Hart, collaboratedWith, Zakir Hussain]
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A.
Zakir Husain
Zakir Husain was an Indian educationist and statesman who served as the third President of India and the country’s first Muslim head of state.
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B.
Rajendra Prasad
Rajendra Prasad was an Indian independence leader, lawyer, and statesman who became the first President of India and remains the only person to have held the office for two full terms.
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C.
Lal Bahadur Shastri
Lal Bahadur Shastri was the second Prime Minister of India, remembered for his leadership during the 1965 Indo-Pak war and his slogan "Jai Jawan Jai Kisan."
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D.
Braj Kumar Nehru
Braj Kumar Nehru was an Indian civil servant and diplomat who held several key administrative and gubernatorial positions, including serving as a close advisor in the highest echelons of the Indian government.
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E.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Jawaharlal Nehru was the first Prime Minister of independent India and a central figure in the Indian independence movement and postcolonial nation-building.
- 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: Zakir Hussain Target entity description: Zakir Hussain is a renowned Indian tabla virtuoso and composer, celebrated worldwide for his mastery of Indian classical percussion and his influential cross-cultural collaborations.
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A.
Zakir Husain
Zakir Husain was an Indian educationist and statesman who served as the third President of India and the country’s first Muslim head of state.
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B.
Rajendra Prasad
Rajendra Prasad was an Indian independence leader, lawyer, and statesman who became the first President of India and remains the only person to have held the office for two full terms.
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C.
Lal Bahadur Shastri
Lal Bahadur Shastri was the second Prime Minister of India, remembered for his leadership during the 1965 Indo-Pak war and his slogan "Jai Jawan Jai Kisan."
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D.
Braj Kumar Nehru
Braj Kumar Nehru was an Indian civil servant and diplomat who held several key administrative and gubernatorial positions, including serving as a close advisor in the highest echelons of the Indian government.
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E.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Jawaharlal Nehru was the first Prime Minister of independent India and a central figure in the Indian independence movement and postcolonial nation-building.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
composer
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human ⓘ music educator ⓘ percussionist ⓘ tabla player ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Grammy Award
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Kalidas Samman NERFINISHED ⓘ National Heritage Fellowship NERFINISHED ⓘ Padma Bhushan ⓘ Padma Shri ⓘ SFJAZZ Lifetime Achievement Award NERFINISHED ⓘ Sangeet Natak Akademi Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | India ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Indian ⓘ |
| familyName | Hussain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Alla Rakha NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
Hindustani classical music
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Indian classical music ⓘ fusion music ⓘ world music ⓘ |
| givenName | Zakir NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| instrument | tabla ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
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Hindi ⓘ Urdu language ⓘ
surface form:
Urdu
|
| movement | world fusion ⓘ |
| name | Zakir Hussain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
co-founded world fusion group Shakti with John McLaughlin
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pioneered cross-cultural collaborations in Indian classical percussion ⓘ popularized tabla on the global stage ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Diga (album)
NERFINISHED
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Heat and Dust (film score) NERFINISHED ⓘ In Custody (film score) NERFINISHED ⓘ Making Music (album) NERFINISHED ⓘ Planet Drum (album) NERFINISHED ⓘ Remember Shakti (band) NERFINISHED ⓘ Shakti (band) NERFINISHED ⓘ Tabla Beat Science (group) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Mystic Masseur (film score) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Rhythm Devils (collaboration) NERFINISHED ⓘ Zakir Hussain (ECM solo album) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
composer
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film score composer ⓘ music producer ⓘ tabla player ⓘ teacher ⓘ |
| residence |
Mumbai
NERFINISHED
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San Francisco Bay Area 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: Zakir Hussain Description of subject: Zakir Hussain is a renowned Indian tabla virtuoso and composer, celebrated worldwide for his mastery of Indian classical percussion and his influential cross-cultural collaborations.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.