Jimmy Scott
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Jimmy Scott was an American jazz vocalist renowned for his hauntingly high contralto voice and emotionally intense ballad performances.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jimmy Scott canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11261247 — 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: Jimmy Scott Context triple: [Tangerine Records, associatedAct, Jimmy Scott]
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A.
Lowell Fulson
Lowell Fulson was an influential American blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter known for shaping West Coast blues and inspiring later electric blues and R&B artists.
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B.
Champion Jack Dupree
Champion Jack Dupree was an American blues and boogie-woogie pianist and singer known for his rollicking New Orleans–style piano playing and humorous, often autobiographical lyrics.
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C.
Clyde McPhatter
Clyde McPhatter was an influential American rhythm and blues and soul singer, best known as the original lead tenor of The Drifters and for helping shape the sound of 1950s R&B and early rock and roll.
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D.
Albert Ammons
Albert Ammons was an influential American boogie-woogie and jazz pianist renowned for his powerful, driving style and key role in popularizing boogie-woogie in the 1930s and 1940s.
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E.
Earl Thomas Conley
Earl Thomas Conley was an American country music singer-songwriter known for his string of 1980s hits and his influential role in the neotraditional country movement.
- 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: Jimmy Scott Target entity description: Jimmy Scott was an American jazz vocalist renowned for his hauntingly high contralto voice and emotionally intense ballad performances.
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A.
Lowell Fulson
Lowell Fulson was an influential American blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter known for shaping West Coast blues and inspiring later electric blues and R&B artists.
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B.
Champion Jack Dupree
Champion Jack Dupree was an American blues and boogie-woogie pianist and singer known for his rollicking New Orleans–style piano playing and humorous, often autobiographical lyrics.
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C.
Clyde McPhatter
Clyde McPhatter was an influential American rhythm and blues and soul singer, best known as the original lead tenor of The Drifters and for helping shape the sound of 1950s R&B and early rock and roll.
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D.
Albert Ammons
Albert Ammons was an influential American boogie-woogie and jazz pianist renowned for his powerful, driving style and key role in popularizing boogie-woogie in the 1930s and 1940s.
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E.
Earl Thomas Conley
Earl Thomas Conley was an American country music singer-songwriter known for his string of 1980s hits and his influential role in the neotraditional country movement.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American jazz musician
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human ⓘ jazz singer ⓘ vocalist ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 2010s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1940s ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Jimmy Scott
NERFINISHED
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Little Jimmy Scott NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Atlantic Records
NERFINISHED
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Lionel Hampton NERFINISHED ⓘ Ray Charles NERFINISHED ⓘ Savoy Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived | NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | James Victor Scott NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | cardiac arrest ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1925-07-17 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2014-06-12 ⓘ |
| effectOfMedicalCondition |
high voice
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stunted growth ⓘ |
| ethnicity | African American ⓘ |
| genre |
jazz
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vocal jazz ⓘ |
| influenced |
Billie Holiday
NERFINISHED
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Lou Reed NERFINISHED ⓘ Madonna NERFINISHED ⓘ Marvin Gaye NERFINISHED ⓘ Nancy Wilson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medicalCondition | Kallmann syndrome NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicalStyle |
slow ballads
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torch songs ⓘ |
| name | Jimmy Scott NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
emotionally intense ballad performances
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hauntingly high contralto voice ⓘ |
| notableWork |
album "All the Way"
NERFINISHED
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album "Dream" ⓘ album "Falling in Love is Wonderful" NERFINISHED ⓘ album "Mood Indigo" NERFINISHED ⓘ album "The Source" ⓘ |
| occupation |
jazz vocalist
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singer ⓘ |
| performedIn |
film "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me"
NERFINISHED
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television series "Twin Peaks" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performedSong | "Sycamore Trees" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Cleveland, Ohio, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Las Vegas, Nevada, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Jeanne Scott NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| vocalType | contralto ⓘ |
| voiceDescribedAs |
androgynous
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haunting ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Jimmy Scott Description of subject: Jimmy Scott was an American jazz vocalist renowned for his hauntingly high contralto voice and emotionally intense ballad performances.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.