Contours
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Contours is a landmark 1965 avant-garde jazz album by American bassist and composer Sam Rivers, noted for its complex compositions and innovative post-bop style.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Contours canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10066857 — 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: Contours Context triple: [Sam Rivers, notableWork, Contours]
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CONTOUR
CONTOUR (Comet Nucleus Tour) was a NASA Discovery-class mission intended to study the nuclei of multiple comets through close flybys before it was lost shortly after launch in 2002.
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Contour
Contour is an open-source Kubernetes ingress controller that uses Envoy Proxy to provide advanced traffic management, load balancing, and routing for cloud-native applications.
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C.
Page curve
The Page curve is a theoretical prediction in black hole physics that describes how the entanglement entropy of Hawking radiation should rise and then fall over time if black hole evaporation is ultimately unitary.
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Bezier curves
Bézier curves are mathematically defined parametric curves widely used in computer graphics and digital design to model smooth, scalable shapes and paths.
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Line and Form
"Line and Form" is an influential art and design treatise by Walter Crane that explores the principles of decorative line, composition, and visual rhythm in illustration and ornament.
- 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: Contours Target entity description: Contours is a landmark 1965 avant-garde jazz album by American bassist and composer Sam Rivers, noted for its complex compositions and innovative post-bop style.
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A.
CONTOUR
CONTOUR (Comet Nucleus Tour) was a NASA Discovery-class mission intended to study the nuclei of multiple comets through close flybys before it was lost shortly after launch in 2002.
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B.
Contour
Contour is an open-source Kubernetes ingress controller that uses Envoy Proxy to provide advanced traffic management, load balancing, and routing for cloud-native applications.
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C.
Page curve
The Page curve is a theoretical prediction in black hole physics that describes how the entanglement entropy of Hawking radiation should rise and then fall over time if black hole evaporation is ultimately unitary.
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D.
Bezier curves
Bézier curves are mathematically defined parametric curves widely used in computer graphics and digital design to model smooth, scalable shapes and paths.
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E.
Line and Form
"Line and Form" is an influential art and design treatise by Walter Crane that explores the principles of decorative line, composition, and visual rhythm in illustration and ornament.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
album
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studio album ⓘ |
| artist | Sam Rivers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedMovement | 1960s avant-garde jazz ⓘ |
| chronologyOf | Sam Rivers discography NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | Sam Rivers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| coverArtDesigner | Reid Miles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| criticalReception | highly acclaimed by jazz critics ⓘ |
| featuresInstrument |
bass
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drums ⓘ flute ⓘ piano ⓘ soprano saxophone ⓘ tenor saxophone ⓘ trumpet ⓘ |
| featuresMusician |
Freddie Hubbard
NERFINISHED
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Herbie Hancock NERFINISHED ⓘ Joe Chambers NERFINISHED ⓘ Ron Carter NERFINISHED ⓘ Sam Rivers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followedBy | A New Conception NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| follows | Fuchsia Swing Song NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| format | LP record ⓘ |
| genre |
avant-garde jazz
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post-bop ⓘ |
| hasLength | approximately 40 minutes ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Dance of the Tripedal
NERFINISHED
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Euterpe NERFINISHED ⓘ Mellifluous Cacophony NERFINISHED ⓘ Point of Many Returns NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | instrumental ⓘ |
| notableFor |
complex compositions
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innovative post-bop style ⓘ |
| partOf | Blue Note Records catalog ⓘ |
| performer | Sam Rivers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Alfred Lion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publisher | Blue Note Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordedAt | Van Gelder Studio NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordingDate | 1965-03-21 ⓘ |
| recordingEngineer | Rudy Van Gelder NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordingLocation | Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Blue Note Records ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1965 ⓘ |
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: Contours Description of subject: Contours is a landmark 1965 avant-garde jazz album by American bassist and composer Sam Rivers, noted for its complex compositions and innovative post-bop style.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.