Elvin Jones
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Elvin Jones was a pioneering American jazz drummer best known for his polyrhythmic, explosive work with the John Coltrane Quartet, which reshaped modern jazz drumming.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Elvin Jones canonical | 13 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6116554 — 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: Elvin Jones Context triple: [Jo Jones, influenced, Elvin Jones]
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A.
Bobby Watson
Bobby Watson is an American jazz alto saxophonist and composer known for his work with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and his influential role in modern hard bop.
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B.
J.J. Johnson
J.J. Johnson was a pioneering American jazz trombonist, composer, and arranger renowned for his virtuosic bebop playing and influential recordings.
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C.
Teddy Dunn
Teddy Dunn is an American actor best known for playing Duncan Kane on the television series "Veronica Mars."
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D.
Clifton Brown
Clifton Brown is a notable individual distinguished by the given name Clifton, recognized among prominent bearers of that name.
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E.
Yusef Jackson
Yusef Jackson is an American businessman and public figure, known primarily as one of the sons of civil rights leader Reverend Jesse Jackson.
- 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: Elvin Jones Target entity description: Elvin Jones was a pioneering American jazz drummer best known for his polyrhythmic, explosive work with the John Coltrane Quartet, which reshaped modern jazz drumming.
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A.
Bobby Watson
Bobby Watson is an American jazz alto saxophonist and composer known for his work with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and his influential role in modern hard bop.
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B.
J.J. Johnson
J.J. Johnson was a pioneering American jazz trombonist, composer, and arranger renowned for his virtuosic bebop playing and influential recordings.
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C.
Teddy Dunn
Teddy Dunn is an American actor best known for playing Duncan Kane on the television series "Veronica Mars."
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D.
Clifton Brown
Clifton Brown is a notable individual distinguished by the given name Clifton, recognized among prominent bearers of that name.
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E.
Yusef Jackson
Yusef Jackson is an American businessman and public figure, known primarily as one of the sons of civil rights leader Reverend Jesse Jackson.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bandleader
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human ⓘ jazz drummer ⓘ musician ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 2004 ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1940s ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Charles Mingus
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Duke Ellington NERFINISHED ⓘ Jimmy Garrison NERFINISHED ⓘ John Coltrane NERFINISHED ⓘ McCoy Tyner NERFINISHED ⓘ Miles Davis NERFINISHED ⓘ Sonny Rollins NERFINISHED ⓘ Wayne Shorter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Modern Drummer Hall of Fame inductee ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1927-09-09 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2004-05-18 ⓘ |
| ethnicity | African American ⓘ |
| fullName | Elvin Ray Jones NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
hard bop
ⓘ
jazz ⓘ modal jazz ⓘ post-bop ⓘ |
| influenced |
Bill Stewart
NERFINISHED
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Billy Hart NERFINISHED ⓘ Jack DeJohnette NERFINISHED ⓘ Peter Erskine NERFINISHED ⓘ Tony Williams NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| instrument | drums ⓘ |
| memberOf | John Coltrane Quartet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement |
avant-garde jazz
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modern jazz ⓘ |
| notableBand | Elvin Jones Jazz Machine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Love Supreme
NERFINISHED
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Live at the Village Vanguard (John Coltrane album) NERFINISHED ⓘ My Favorite Things NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
bandleader
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composer ⓘ drummer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Pontiac, Michigan, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Englewood, New Jersey, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Atlantic Records
ⓘ
Blue Note Records ⓘ Impulse! Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sibling |
Hank Jones
NERFINISHED
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Thad Jones NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Keiko Jones NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| style |
explosive drumming
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polyrhythmic drumming ⓘ |
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: Elvin Jones Description of subject: Elvin Jones was a pioneering American jazz drummer best known for his polyrhythmic, explosive work with the John Coltrane Quartet, which reshaped modern jazz drumming.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
My Favorite Things