Brian Blade
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Brian Blade is an acclaimed American jazz drummer and composer known for his dynamic, sensitive playing and work with leading contemporary jazz artists.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Brian Blade canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7524232 — 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: Brian Blade Context triple: [Joshua Redman, notableCollaboration, Brian Blade]
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A.
Patrick Bailey
Patrick Bailey is an American professional baseball catcher who starred at NC State before being drafted in the first round by the San Francisco Giants.
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B.
Mark Aronoff
Mark Aronoff is an American linguist renowned for his influential work in morphology and for his long-standing role as a professor at Stony Brook University.
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C.
Byron Betts
Byron Betts is an American entrepreneur best known for creating and developing the Wild Waves Theme & Water Park in Washington State.
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D.
Mitch Henderson
Mitch Henderson is an American college basketball coach best known for leading the Princeton University men’s basketball program.
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E.
Mitch Henderson
Mitch Henderson is the NASA flight director in Andy Weir’s science fiction novel "The Martian," known for his determination to rescue stranded astronaut Mark Watney.
- 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: Brian Blade Target entity description: Brian Blade is an acclaimed American jazz drummer and composer known for his dynamic, sensitive playing and work with leading contemporary jazz artists.
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A.
Patrick Bailey
Patrick Bailey is an American professional baseball catcher who starred at NC State before being drafted in the first round by the San Francisco Giants.
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B.
Mark Aronoff
Mark Aronoff is an American linguist renowned for his influential work in morphology and for his long-standing role as a professor at Stony Brook University.
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C.
Byron Betts
Byron Betts is an American entrepreneur best known for creating and developing the Wild Waves Theme & Water Park in Washington State.
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D.
Mitch Henderson
Mitch Henderson is an American college basketball coach best known for leading the Princeton University men’s basketball program.
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E.
Mitch Henderson
Mitch Henderson is the NASA flight director in Andy Weir’s science fiction novel "The Martian," known for his determination to rescue stranded astronaut Mark Watney.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bandleader
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composer ⓘ human ⓘ jazz drummer ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1990s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Brian Blade & The Fellowship Band
NERFINISHED
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Wayne Shorter Quartet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1970-07-25 ⓘ |
| familyName | Blade NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| founderOf | Brian Blade Fellowship NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
contemporary jazz
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jazz ⓘ |
| givenName | Brian ⓘ |
| hasCollaboratedWith |
Bill Frisell
NERFINISHED
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Daniel Lanois NERFINISHED ⓘ Ellis Marsalis NERFINISHED ⓘ Herbie Hancock NERFINISHED ⓘ Joni Mitchell NERFINISHED ⓘ Joshua Redman NERFINISHED ⓘ Joshua Redman Elastic Band NERFINISHED ⓘ Kenny Garrett NERFINISHED ⓘ Kurt Rosenwinkel NERFINISHED ⓘ Mark Turner NERFINISHED ⓘ Norah Jones NERFINISHED ⓘ Pat Metheny NERFINISHED ⓘ Wayne Shorter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRole | sideman on numerous jazz recordings ⓘ |
| instrument |
drum kit
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percussion ⓘ |
| memberOf | Brian Blade Fellowship NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Brian Blade NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAlbum |
Brian Blade Fellowship (1998)
NERFINISHED
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Landmarks (2014) NERFINISHED ⓘ Mama Rosa (2009) NERFINISHED ⓘ Perceptual (2000) NERFINISHED ⓘ Season of Changes (2008) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | Brian Blade Fellowship NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
bandleader
ⓘ
composer ⓘ drummer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Shreveport, Louisiana, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Blue Note Records ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| styleCharacteristic |
dynamic playing
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sensitive accompaniment ⓘ subtle use of dynamics and texture ⓘ |
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: Brian Blade Description of subject: Brian Blade is an acclaimed American jazz drummer and composer known for his dynamic, sensitive playing and work with leading contemporary jazz artists.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.