Hines
E120757
Hines is a surname most famously associated with Earl Hines, the influential American jazz pianist and bandleader.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hines canonical | 16 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1010515 — 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: Hines Context triple: [Earl Hines, familyName, Hines]
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A.
Hayes
Hayes is a suburban district in southeast London, England, known for its residential character and green spaces within the London Borough of Bromley.
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B.
Harbison
Harbison is a surname most notably associated with American composer John Harbison, known for his contributions to contemporary classical music.
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C.
Willis
Willis is a masculine given name and surname of English origin, often considered a variant or cognate of the name Wilson.
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D.
Harrison
Harrison is a city in New Jersey’s Hudson County, known as a residential and industrial community within the New York metropolitan area.
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E.
Harrison
Harrison is a common English surname borne by numerous notable figures across politics, the arts, and sciences.
- 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: Hines Target entity description: Hines is a surname most famously associated with Earl Hines, the influential American jazz pianist and bandleader.
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A.
Hayes
Hayes is a suburban district in southeast London, England, known for its residential character and green spaces within the London Borough of Bromley.
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B.
Harbison
Harbison is a surname most notably associated with American composer John Harbison, known for his contributions to contemporary classical music.
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C.
Willis
Willis is a masculine given name and surname of English origin, often considered a variant or cognate of the name Wilson.
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D.
Harrison
Harrison is a common English surname borne by numerous notable figures across politics, the arts, and sciences.
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E.
Harrison
Harrison is a city in New Jersey’s Hudson County, known as a residential and industrial community within the New York metropolitan area.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
ⓘ
actor ⓘ bandleader ⓘ dancer ⓘ family name ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ jazz musician ⓘ pianist ⓘ singer ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1920s ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Louis Armstrong
ⓘ
big band jazz ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth |
1903-12-28
ⓘ
1946-02-14 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath |
1983-04-22
ⓘ
2003-08-09 ⓘ |
| fullName |
Earl Kenneth Hines
ⓘ
linked to:
Earl Hines
|
| genre | jazz ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin |
English
ⓘ
Irish ⓘ Scottish ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Cheryl Hines
ⓘ
Earl Hines ⓘ Gregory Hines ⓘ |
| influenced | modern jazz piano ⓘ |
| isUsedAs | family name ⓘ |
| isVariantOf |
Hinds
ⓘ
Hynes ⓘ |
| knownFor |
influential big band leadership
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innovative jazz piano style ⓘ tap dancing ⓘ television comedy roles ⓘ |
| nationality |
American
ⓘ
American ⓘ American ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
ⓘ
bandleader ⓘ composer ⓘ pianist ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Duquesne, Pennsylvania, United States
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linked to:
Duquesne, Pennsylvania
|
| placeOfDeath |
Oakland, California, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Oakland
|
| primaryInstrument | piano ⓘ |
| usedInCountry |
Ireland
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
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: Hines Description of subject: Hines is a surname most famously associated with Earl Hines, the influential American jazz pianist and bandleader.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.