Buddy Bolden
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Buddy Bolden was an early New Orleans cornetist and bandleader widely regarded as a pioneering figure in the development of jazz.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Buddy Bolden canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10391631 — 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: Buddy Bolden Context triple: [Coming Through Slaughter, mainCharacter, Buddy Bolden]
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A.
Joe "King" Oliver
Joe "King" Oliver was an influential early jazz cornetist and bandleader, best known for mentoring Louis Armstrong and pioneering the New Orleans jazz style.
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B.
Warren "Baby" Dodds
Warren "Baby" Dodds was an influential early jazz drummer, best known for his pioneering work in New Orleans jazz and collaborations with Louis Armstrong and other major figures of the genre.
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C.
Sidney Bechet
Sidney Bechet was a pioneering American jazz clarinetist and soprano saxophonist known for his powerful tone, virtuosic improvisation, and major influence on early New Orleans and swing-era jazz.
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D.
Jelly Roll Morton
Jelly Roll Morton was an influential early jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader who helped shape and popularize the New Orleans jazz style in the early 20th century.
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E.
Alton Toussaint Lemon
Alton Toussaint Lemon was a prominent American civil rights activist best known as the lead plaintiff in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Lemon v. Kurtzman, which established the "Lemon test" for church-state separation.
- 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: Buddy Bolden Target entity description: Buddy Bolden was an early New Orleans cornetist and bandleader widely regarded as a pioneering figure in the development of jazz.
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A.
Joe "King" Oliver
Joe "King" Oliver was an influential early jazz cornetist and bandleader, best known for mentoring Louis Armstrong and pioneering the New Orleans jazz style.
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B.
Warren "Baby" Dodds
Warren "Baby" Dodds was an influential early jazz drummer, best known for his pioneering work in New Orleans jazz and collaborations with Louis Armstrong and other major figures of the genre.
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C.
Sidney Bechet
Sidney Bechet was a pioneering American jazz clarinetist and soprano saxophonist known for his powerful tone, virtuosic improvisation, and major influence on early New Orleans and swing-era jazz.
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D.
Jelly Roll Morton
Jelly Roll Morton was an influential early jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader who helped shape and popularize the New Orleans jazz style in the early 20th century.
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E.
Alton Toussaint Lemon
Alton Toussaint Lemon was a prominent American civil rights activist best known as the lead plaintiff in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Lemon v. Kurtzman, which established the "Lemon test" for church-state separation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bandleader
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cornetist ⓘ human ⓘ musician ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1907 ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1890s ⓘ |
| admittedToInstitution | 1907 ⓘ |
| birthName | Charles Joseph Bolden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace |
Holt Cemetery
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New Orleans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | cerebral arteriosclerosis ⓘ |
| citizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| dateOfBirth | 1877-09-06 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1931-11-04 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Black Americans
ⓘ
surface form:
African American
|
| familyName | Bolden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
jazz
ⓘ
ragtime ⓘ |
| givenName | Charles ⓘ |
| hasNoSurvivingRecordings | true GENERATED ⓘ |
| influenced |
King Oliver
NERFINISHED
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Louis Armstrong NERFINISHED ⓘ early New Orleans jazz musicians ⓘ |
| instrument | cornet ⓘ |
| knownFor |
improvisational style
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loud volume and strong rhythm ⓘ powerful cornet playing ⓘ |
| medicalCondition | mental illness ⓘ |
| middleName | Joseph NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement | early New Orleans jazz ⓘ |
| name | Buddy Bolden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
leading one of the first important New Orleans dance bands
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pioneering role in the development of jazz ⓘ |
| occupation |
bandleader
ⓘ
cornetist ⓘ musician ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Louisiana
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New Orleans NERFINISHED ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| placeOfDeath |
Jackson
NERFINISHED
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Mississippi NERFINISHED ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| placeOfDetention | Louisiana State Insane Asylum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedIn | film "Bolden" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | New Orleans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| subjectOf | legend and oral history in jazz culture ⓘ |
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: Buddy Bolden Description of subject: Buddy Bolden was an early New Orleans cornetist and bandleader widely regarded as a pioneering figure in the development of jazz.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.