Charles Tolliver
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Charles Tolliver is an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and bandleader known for his work in the post-bop and avant-garde jazz scenes, including co-founding the influential Strata-East record label.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Charles Tolliver canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8212349 — 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 Tolliver Context triple: [Members, Don’t Git Weary, featuresMusician, Charles Tolliver]
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A.
Charles McPherson
Charles McPherson is an American jazz alto saxophonist known for his bebop-rooted style and long association with bassist and composer Charles Mingus.
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B.
Joe Henderson
Joe Henderson was an influential American jazz tenor saxophonist and composer known for his work in hard bop and post-bop, including classic Blue Note recordings and collaborations with leading jazz artists of the 1960s and beyond.
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C.
Charles Lloyd
Charles Lloyd is an influential American jazz saxophonist, flutist, and composer known for his genre-blending style and acclaimed work since the 1960s.
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D.
Maceo Parker
Maceo Parker is an American funk and soul saxophonist best known for his work with James Brown and Parliament-Funkadelic, as well as his influential solo career.
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E.
Donald Byrd
Donald Byrd was an influential American jazz trumpeter and bandleader known for his work in hard bop and later pioneering jazz-funk and fusion styles.
- 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 Tolliver Target entity description: Charles Tolliver is an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and bandleader known for his work in the post-bop and avant-garde jazz scenes, including co-founding the influential Strata-East record label.
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A.
Charles McPherson
Charles McPherson is an American jazz alto saxophonist known for his bebop-rooted style and long association with bassist and composer Charles Mingus.
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B.
Joe Henderson
Joe Henderson was an influential American jazz tenor saxophonist and composer known for his work in hard bop and post-bop, including classic Blue Note recordings and collaborations with leading jazz artists of the 1960s and beyond.
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C.
Charles Lloyd
Charles Lloyd is an influential American jazz saxophonist, flutist, and composer known for his genre-blending style and acclaimed work since the 1960s.
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D.
Maceo Parker
Maceo Parker is an American funk and soul saxophonist best known for his work with James Brown and Parliament-Funkadelic, as well as his influential solo career.
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E.
Donald Byrd
Donald Byrd was an influential American jazz trumpeter and bandleader known for his work in hard bop and later pioneering jazz-funk and fusion styles.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bandleader
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composer ⓘ human ⓘ jazz trumpeter ⓘ record producer ⓘ |
| activeIn |
1960s jazz scene
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1970s jazz scene ⓘ New York City jazz scene ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Andrew Hill
NERFINISHED
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Horace Silver NERFINISHED ⓘ Jackie McLean NERFINISHED ⓘ Max Roach NERFINISHED ⓘ McCoy Tyner NERFINISHED ⓘ Stanley Cowell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coFounded | Strata-East Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coFounderWith | Stanley Cowell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1942-03-06 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Black Americans
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surface form:
African American
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| familyName | Tolliver NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
jazz composition
ⓘ
music ⓘ |
| founded | Music Inc. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
avant-garde jazz
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jazz ⓘ post-bop ⓘ |
| givenName | Charles ⓘ |
| instrument | trumpet ⓘ |
| knownFor |
complex compositions
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leadership of large ensembles ⓘ powerful trumpet tone ⓘ |
| movement |
artist-owned record labels
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independent jazz ⓘ |
| name | Charles Tolliver NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Emperor March: Live at the Blue Note
NERFINISHED
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Impact NERFINISHED ⓘ Live at Slugs' NERFINISHED ⓘ Music Inc. NERFINISHED ⓘ Paper Man NERFINISHED ⓘ The Ringer NERFINISHED ⓘ With Love NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
bandleader
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composer ⓘ musician ⓘ trumpeter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Jacksonville, Florida, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Blue Note Records
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Enja Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Strata-East Records 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 Tolliver Description of subject: Charles Tolliver is an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and bandleader known for his work in the post-bop and avant-garde jazz scenes, including co-founding the influential Strata-East record label.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.