Richard Davis
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Richard Davis is an acclaimed American jazz double bassist known for his virtuosic technique, versatility across genres, and collaborations with many leading jazz artists.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Richard Davis canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8843048 — 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: Richard Davis Context triple: [Andrew Hill, associatedAct, Richard Davis]
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A.
Charles Watts
Charles Watts was an American character actor known for his supporting roles in mid-20th-century film and television.
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B.
Ian Reed
Ian Reed is a colleague of the fictional London detective John Luther in the British crime drama series "Luther."
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C.
Roy Wood Sellars
Roy Wood Sellars was an American philosopher known for his work in critical realism and naturalism and for helping shape early 20th-century secular humanist thought.
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Rick Davies
Rick Davies is an English musician, singer, and songwriter best known as the co-founder, keyboardist, and one of the primary songwriters of the rock band Supertramp.
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E.
J. C. Squire
J. C. Squire was a British poet, critic, and editor best known for leading the Georgian poetry movement and shaping early 20th-century English literary taste.
- 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: Richard Davis Target entity description: Richard Davis is an acclaimed American jazz double bassist known for his virtuosic technique, versatility across genres, and collaborations with many leading jazz artists.
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A.
Charles Watts
Charles Watts was an American character actor known for his supporting roles in mid-20th-century film and television.
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B.
Ian Reed
Ian Reed is a colleague of the fictional London detective John Luther in the British crime drama series "Luther."
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C.
Roy Wood Sellars
Roy Wood Sellars was an American philosopher known for his work in critical realism and naturalism and for helping shape early 20th-century secular humanist thought.
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D.
Rick Davies
Rick Davies is an English musician, singer, and songwriter best known as the co-founder, keyboardist, and one of the primary songwriters of the rock band Supertramp.
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E.
J. C. Squire
J. C. Squire was a British poet, critic, and editor best known for leading the Georgian poetry movement and shaping early 20th-century English literary taste.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American jazz double bassist
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double bassist ⓘ human ⓘ jazz musician ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Andrew Hill
NERFINISHED
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Booker Ervin NERFINISHED ⓘ Bruce Springsteen NERFINISHED ⓘ Elvin Jones NERFINISHED ⓘ Eric Dolphy NERFINISHED ⓘ Mel Lewis NERFINISHED ⓘ Sarah Vaughan NERFINISHED ⓘ Thad Jones NERFINISHED ⓘ Van Morrison NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived | DownBeat Critics Poll winner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1930-04-15 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Chicago, Illinois, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | University of Wisconsin–Madison NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Black Americans
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surface form:
African American
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| familyName | Davis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
music education
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music performance ⓘ |
| genre |
classical music
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jazz ⓘ third stream ⓘ |
| givenName | Richard ⓘ |
| instrument | double bass ⓘ |
| movement |
avant-garde jazz
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post-bop ⓘ |
| name | Richard Davis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
collaborations with leading jazz artists
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versatility across musical genres ⓘ virtuosic double bass technique ⓘ |
| notableWork |
album "As One"
NERFINISHED
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album "Dealin'" NERFINISHED ⓘ album "Epistrophy & Now's the Time" NERFINISHED ⓘ album "Harvest" NERFINISHED ⓘ album "Heavy Sounds" ⓘ album "Muses for Richard Davis" NERFINISHED ⓘ album "The Philosophy of the Spiritual" NERFINISHED ⓘ album "Total Package" NERFINISHED ⓘ album "Way Out West" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
double bassist
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music educator ⓘ musician ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Blue Note Records
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Muse Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Palmetto Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Madison, Wisconsin, United States 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: Richard Davis Description of subject: Richard Davis is an acclaimed American jazz double bassist known for his virtuosic technique, versatility across genres, and collaborations with many leading jazz artists.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.