A. Quincy Jones
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A. Quincy Jones was a prominent mid-20th-century American architect known for his innovative modernist residential and civic designs, particularly in Southern California.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| A. Quincy Jones canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11693210 — 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: A. Quincy Jones Context triple: [Sunnylands, architect, A. Quincy Jones]
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A.
Quincy Jones
Quincy Jones is an American record producer, composer, and arranger renowned for his influential work across jazz, pop, and soul, including landmark collaborations with artists like Michael Jackson and Frank Sinatra.
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B.
Quincy Jones III
Quincy Jones III is a Swedish-American music producer and documentary filmmaker known for his influential work in hip-hop and his lineage as the son of legendary producer Quincy Jones.
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C.
Bob Johnston
Bob Johnston was an American record producer best known for his work with Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, and other major artists in the 1960s and 1970s.
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D.
Marc Davis
Marc Davis was a legendary Disney animator and one of Walt Disney’s original “Nine Old Men,” renowned for designing iconic characters and attractions for Disneyland.
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E.
Terry Leonard
Terry Leonard is a film producer known for his work on the documentary "Love, Antosha," which explores the life and legacy of actor Anton Yelchin.
- 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: A. Quincy Jones Target entity description: A. Quincy Jones was a prominent mid-20th-century American architect known for his innovative modernist residential and civic designs, particularly in Southern California.
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A.
Quincy Jones
Quincy Jones is an American record producer, composer, and arranger renowned for his influential work across jazz, pop, and soul, including landmark collaborations with artists like Michael Jackson and Frank Sinatra.
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B.
Quincy Jones III
Quincy Jones III is a Swedish-American music producer and documentary filmmaker known for his influential work in hip-hop and his lineage as the son of legendary producer Quincy Jones.
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C.
Bob Johnston
Bob Johnston was an American record producer best known for his work with Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, and other major artists in the 1960s and 1970s.
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D.
Marc Davis
Marc Davis was a legendary Disney animator and one of Walt Disney’s original “Nine Old Men,” renowned for designing iconic characters and attractions for Disneyland.
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E.
Terry Leonard
Terry Leonard is a film producer known for his work on the documentary "Love, Antosha," which explores the life and legacy of actor Anton Yelchin.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
architect
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human ⓘ modernist architect ⓘ university teacher ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle |
Mid-century modern
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Modernism ⓘ |
| awardReceived | AIA Fellowship NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1913-04-29 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1979-08-03 ⓘ |
| designed |
churches and religious buildings
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custom single-family houses ⓘ tract housing developments in California ⓘ university buildings ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Washington ⓘ |
| employer | University of Southern California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Jones ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
architecture
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civic architecture ⓘ modern architecture ⓘ residential architecture ⓘ |
| founded | A. Quincy Jones, FAIA & Associates NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | postwar modernism in California ⓘ |
| givenName |
Archibald
NERFINISHED
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Quincy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
innovative residential design
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modernist civic buildings ⓘ work in Southern California ⓘ |
| memberOf | American Institute of Architects NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryService | United States Navy ⓘ |
| name | A. Quincy Jones NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Annenberg School of Communications, USC
NERFINISHED
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Case Study House No. 24 (unbuilt) NERFINISHED ⓘ Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA NERFINISHED ⓘ Cooperative housing for Mutual Housing Association, Crestwood Hills, Los Angeles ⓘ IBM Aerospace Building, Los Angeles NERFINISHED ⓘ St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church, Studio City, California NERFINISHED ⓘ Sunnylands, Rancho Mirage, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
architect
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professor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Kansas City, Missouri, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Los Angeles, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Dean of the School of Architecture, University of Southern California ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Elaine Sewell Jones NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Los Angeles, California, United States
NERFINISHED
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Southern California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: A. Quincy Jones Description of subject: A. Quincy Jones was a prominent mid-20th-century American architect known for his innovative modernist residential and civic designs, particularly in Southern California.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.