Charles Neville
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Charles Neville was an American saxophonist best known as a founding member of the New Orleans funk and R&B group The Neville Brothers.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Charles Neville canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8395947 — 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: Charles Neville Context triple: [The Neville Brothers, member, Charles Neville]
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A.
Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers
Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers, was an English nobleman, soldier, and patron of learning in the late 15th century, noted for his influence at the Yorkist court and his role in the turbulent politics surrounding the Wars of the Roses.
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B.
Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick
Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, known as "the Kingmaker," was a powerful 15th-century English nobleman whose shifting alliances and military influence decisively shaped the dynastic struggle between the houses of York and Lancaster.
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C.
George Neville
George Neville is a character in the 1920 silent film "Way Down East," portrayed as a wealthy but morally dubious man whose actions drive much of the drama.
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D.
Sir John Woodville
Sir John Woodville was an English nobleman of the influential Woodville family during the Wars of the Roses in the 15th century.
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E.
Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York
Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York was a key 15th-century English noble and claimant to the throne whose dynastic struggle with the Lancastrians helped ignite the Wars of the Roses and paved the way for the Yorkist kings.
- 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: Charles Neville Target entity description: Charles Neville was an American saxophonist best known as a founding member of the New Orleans funk and R&B group The Neville Brothers.
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A.
Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers
Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers, was an English nobleman, soldier, and patron of learning in the late 15th century, noted for his influence at the Yorkist court and his role in the turbulent politics surrounding the Wars of the Roses.
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B.
Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick
Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, known as "the Kingmaker," was a powerful 15th-century English nobleman whose shifting alliances and military influence decisively shaped the dynastic struggle between the houses of York and Lancaster.
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C.
George Neville
George Neville is a character in the 1920 silent film "Way Down East," portrayed as a wealthy but morally dubious man whose actions drive much of the drama.
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D.
Sir John Woodville
Sir John Woodville was an English nobleman of the influential Woodville family during the Wars of the Roses in the 15th century.
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E.
Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York
Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York was a key 15th-century English noble and claimant to the throne whose dynastic struggle with the Lancastrians helped ignite the Wars of the Roses and paved the way for the Yorkist kings.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American jazz musician
ⓘ
human ⓘ musician ⓘ saxophonist ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1950s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Neville Family Band
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Meters NERFINISHED ⓘ The Neville Brothers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Grammy Award ⓘ |
| basedIn | New Orleans, Louisiana, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | pancreatic cancer ⓘ |
| child | Charmaine Neville NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1938-12-28 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2018-04-26 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Black Americans
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surface form:
African American
|
| familyName | Neville NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
funk
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jazz ⓘ rhythm and blues ⓘ soul ⓘ |
| givenName | Charles ⓘ |
| instrument | saxophone ⓘ |
| memberOf | The Neville Brothers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Charles Neville NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | being a founding member of The Neville Brothers ⓘ |
| notableInstrumentStyle |
alto saxophone
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soprano saxophone ⓘ tenor saxophone ⓘ |
| notableWork | performances with The Neville Brothers ⓘ |
| occupation |
musician
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saxophonist ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | New Orleans, Louisiana, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Massachusetts, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
A&M Records
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Capitol Records ⓘ EMI ⓘ MCA Records ⓘ |
| religion | Buddhism ⓘ |
| residence | New Orleans, Louisiana, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sibling |
Aaron Neville
NERFINISHED
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Art Neville NERFINISHED ⓘ Cyril Neville NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Kristen Neville 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: Charles Neville Description of subject: Charles Neville was an American saxophonist best known as a founding member of the New Orleans funk and R&B group The Neville Brothers.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.