Richard Bona
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Richard Bona is a Cameroonian-born jazz bassist, vocalist, and composer renowned for his virtuosic playing, rich vocal style, and fusion of African rhythms with contemporary jazz.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Richard Bona canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10010370 — 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 Bona Context triple: [Heads Up International, notableArtist, Richard Bona]
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A.
Ballaké Sissoko
Ballaké Sissoko is a renowned Malian musician celebrated as one of the world’s leading kora virtuosos and a prominent figure in contemporary West African traditional music.
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B.
Lionel Loueke
Lionel Loueke is a Beninese-born jazz guitarist and vocalist known for blending West African rhythms with contemporary jazz improvisation.
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C.
Manu Dibango
Manu Dibango was a pioneering Cameroonian saxophonist and songwriter best known for blending jazz, funk, and traditional African music, particularly in his influential hit "Soul Makossa."
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D.
Brian Fantana
Brian Fantana is a charismatic but comically sleazy field reporter and member of the Channel 4 news team in the comedy film "Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy."
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E.
André Cymone
André Cymone is an American bassist, songwriter, and producer best known for his early work with Prince and for helping shape the distinctive Minneapolis sound of the late 1970s and 1980s.
- 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 Bona Target entity description: Richard Bona is a Cameroonian-born jazz bassist, vocalist, and composer renowned for his virtuosic playing, rich vocal style, and fusion of African rhythms with contemporary jazz.
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A.
Ballaké Sissoko
Ballaké Sissoko is a renowned Malian musician celebrated as one of the world’s leading kora virtuosos and a prominent figure in contemporary West African traditional music.
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B.
Lionel Loueke
Lionel Loueke is a Beninese-born jazz guitarist and vocalist known for blending West African rhythms with contemporary jazz improvisation.
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C.
Manu Dibango
Manu Dibango was a pioneering Cameroonian saxophonist and songwriter best known for blending jazz, funk, and traditional African music, particularly in his influential hit "Soul Makossa."
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D.
Brian Fantana
Brian Fantana is a charismatic but comically sleazy field reporter and member of the Channel 4 news team in the comedy film "Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy."
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E.
André Cymone
André Cymone is an American bassist, songwriter, and producer best known for his early work with Prince and for helping shape the distinctive Minneapolis sound of the late 1970s and 1980s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
composer
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human ⓘ jazz bassist ⓘ musician ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Bobby McFerrin
NERFINISHED
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Chick Corea Elektric Band NERFINISHED ⓘ George Benson NERFINISHED ⓘ Jaco Pastorius Big Band NERFINISHED ⓘ Joe Zawinul NERFINISHED ⓘ John Legend NERFINISHED ⓘ Mandy Patinkin NERFINISHED ⓘ Mike Stern NERFINISHED ⓘ Pat Metheny Group NERFINISHED ⓘ Santana NERFINISHED ⓘ Steps Ahead NERFINISHED ⓘ Zawinul Syndicate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Victoire du Jazz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedIn | New York City ⓘ |
| birthName | Richard Bona Penda NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Cameroon
NERFINISHED
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United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1967-10-28 ⓘ |
| debutAlbum | Scenes from My Life NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
Afro-jazz
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fusion ⓘ jazz ⓘ world music ⓘ |
| instrument |
bass guitar
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double bass ⓘ electric bass ⓘ guitar ⓘ piano ⓘ vocals ⓘ |
| languageOfPerformance |
Duala
NERFINISHED
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English ⓘ French ⓘ |
| name | Richard Bona NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Bonafied
NERFINISHED
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Heritage NERFINISHED ⓘ Munia: The Tale NERFINISHED ⓘ Reverence NERFINISHED ⓘ Scenes from My Life NERFINISHED ⓘ The Ten Shades of Blues NERFINISHED ⓘ Tiki NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
bassist
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record producer ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Minta, Cameroon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| style | fusion of African rhythms with contemporary jazz ⓘ |
| vocalStyle | rich, melodic, and lyrical ⓘ |
| website | https://www.richard-bona.com/ ⓘ |
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 Bona Description of subject: Richard Bona is a Cameroonian-born jazz bassist, vocalist, and composer renowned for his virtuosic playing, rich vocal style, and fusion of African rhythms with contemporary jazz.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.