Shadow Henderson
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Shadow Henderson is a charismatic jazz saxophonist character in Spike Lee's film "Mo’ Better Blues," known for his talent, ego, and complicated friendship with bandleader Bleek Gilliam.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shadow Henderson canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6773332 — 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: Shadow Henderson Context triple: [Mo’ Better Blues, featuresCharacter, Shadow Henderson]
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A.
Hunter Hunt
Hunter Hunt is a personal name that may refer to multiple individuals, rather than a single widely recognized public figure.
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B.
Hal Caine
Hal Caine is a fictional character known primarily as the husband of Charly Baltimore in the film "The Long Kiss Goodnight."
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C.
Jack Deerson
Jack Deerson is a cinematographer best known for his work on the 1971 road movie "Two-Lane Blacktop."
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D.
Rennie
Rennie is a Scottish surname most notably associated with the family of civil engineers, including John Rennie the Younger.
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E.
Jesse Vint
Jesse Vint is an American actor best known for his roles in 1970s and 1980s science fiction and exploitation films, including the cult classic "Silent Running."
- 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: Shadow Henderson Target entity description: Shadow Henderson is a charismatic jazz saxophonist character in Spike Lee's film "Mo’ Better Blues," known for his talent, ego, and complicated friendship with bandleader Bleek Gilliam.
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A.
Hunter Hunt
Hunter Hunt is a personal name that may refer to multiple individuals, rather than a single widely recognized public figure.
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B.
Hal Caine
Hal Caine is a fictional character known primarily as the husband of Charly Baltimore in the film "The Long Kiss Goodnight."
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C.
Jack Deerson
Jack Deerson is a cinematographer best known for his work on the 1971 road movie "Two-Lane Blacktop."
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D.
Rennie
Rennie is a Scottish surname most notably associated with the family of civil engineers, including John Rennie the Younger.
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E.
Jesse Vint
Jesse Vint is an American actor best known for his roles in 1970s and 1980s science fiction and exploitation films, including the cult classic "Silent Running."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Mo' Better Blues NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bandRole | saxophonist in Bleek Gilliam's band ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| createdBy | Spike Lee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYear | 1990 ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Mo' Better Blues (1990 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | jazz ⓘ |
| hasPersonalityTrait |
charismatic
ⓘ
competitive ⓘ egotistical ⓘ |
| hasRelationshipWith | Bleek Gilliam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | foil to Bleek Gilliam ⓘ |
| notableFor |
conflict with bandleader Bleek Gilliam
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
on-stage charisma ⓘ virtuosic saxophone playing ⓘ |
| occupation |
jazz saxophonist
ⓘ
musician ⓘ |
| partOf | Mo' Better Blues ensemble cast NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Wesley Snipes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relationshipTypeWithBleekGilliam |
friend
ⓘ
rival ⓘ |
| setting | New York City jazz scene ⓘ |
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: Shadow Henderson Description of subject: Shadow Henderson is a charismatic jazz saxophonist character in Spike Lee's film "Mo’ Better Blues," known for his talent, ego, and complicated friendship with bandleader Bleek Gilliam.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.