Miroslav Vitouš
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Miroslav Vitouš is a Czech jazz bassist and composer best known as a founding member of the pioneering jazz fusion band Weather Report.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Miroslav Vitouš canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10515331 — 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: Miroslav Vitouš Context triple: [Weather Report, member, Miroslav Vitouš]
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A.
Miloš Štědroň
Miloš Štědroň is a Czech composer, musicologist, and educator known for his contributions to contemporary classical music and scholarship on Leoš Janáček.
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B.
Vladimír Novotný
Vladimír Novotný is a cinematographer known for his work on the Czech film "Atentát."
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C.
Viktor Pospíšil
Viktor Pospíšil is a conductor and music director known for his leadership at the Staatsoper Stuttgart.
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D.
Vladimír Růžička
Vladimír Růžička is a former Czech ice hockey star and coach, best known for captaining Czechoslovakia to Olympic gold in 1998 and for his long, successful career in European leagues and the NHL.
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E.
Vladimír Dzurilla
Vladimír Dzurilla was a legendary Czechoslovak ice hockey goaltender, widely regarded as one of the best European goalies of his era and a key figure in international competitions during the 1960s and 1970s.
- 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: Miroslav Vitouš Target entity description: Miroslav Vitouš is a Czech jazz bassist and composer best known as a founding member of the pioneering jazz fusion band Weather Report.
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A.
Miloš Štědroň
Miloš Štědroň is a Czech composer, musicologist, and educator known for his contributions to contemporary classical music and scholarship on Leoš Janáček.
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B.
Vladimír Novotný
Vladimír Novotný is a cinematographer known for his work on the Czech film "Atentát."
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C.
Viktor Pospíšil
Viktor Pospíšil is a conductor and music director known for his leadership at the Staatsoper Stuttgart.
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D.
Vladimír Růžička
Vladimír Růžička is a former Czech ice hockey star and coach, best known for captaining Czechoslovakia to Olympic gold in 1998 and for his long, successful career in European leagues and the NHL.
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E.
Vladimír Dzurilla
Vladimír Dzurilla was a legendary Czechoslovak ice hockey goaltender, widely regarded as one of the best European goalies of his era and a key figure in international competitions during the 1960s and 1970s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
composer
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double bassist ⓘ human ⓘ jazz musician ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1960s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Chick Corea Trio
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jan Garbarek Group NERFINISHED ⓘ Weather Report NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived | DownBeat Critics Poll NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coFounded | Weather Report NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
Chick Corea
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jan Garbarek NERFINISHED ⓘ Joe Zawinul NERFINISHED ⓘ John McLaughlin NERFINISHED ⓘ Wayne Shorter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Czech Republic
ⓘ
Czechoslovakia ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1947-12-06 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Berklee College of Music
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Prague Conservatory NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Vitouš NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
jazz
ⓘ
jazz fusion ⓘ |
| givenName | Miroslav NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| instrument |
bass guitar
ⓘ
double bass ⓘ |
| memberOf | Weather Report NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement | jazz fusion ⓘ |
| name | Miroslav Vitouš NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | Czech ⓘ |
| notableAlbum |
Universal Syncopations
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Universal Syncopations II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableInstrument | upright bass ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Infinite Search
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Magical Shepherd NERFINISHED ⓘ Mountain in the Clouds NERFINISHED ⓘ Purple NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
bandleader
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composer ⓘ musician ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Prague NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionInBand | bassist of Weather Report ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Atlantic Records
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ECM Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Embryo Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Warner Bros. Records ⓘ |
| residence |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| website | http://www.miroslavvitous.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: Miroslav Vitouš Description of subject: Miroslav Vitouš is a Czech jazz bassist and composer best known as a founding member of the pioneering jazz fusion band Weather Report.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.