Stan Getz
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Stan Getz was an American jazz saxophonist renowned for his warm, lyrical tone and for popularizing bossa nova in the United States through landmark recordings like "The Girl from Ipanema."
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Stan Getz canonical | 171 |
| Stan Getz & João Gilberto | 1 |
| Stan Getz Plays | 1 |
| Stan Getz discography | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1181810 — 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: Stan Getz Context triple: [Verve Records, notableArtist, Stan Getz]
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A.
Lester Young
Lester Young was an influential American tenor saxophonist whose cool, lyrical style helped define the sound of Kansas City jazz and profoundly shaped modern jazz improvisation.
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B.
Dizzy Gillespie
Dizzy Gillespie was an influential American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, and key architect of bebop known for his virtuosic playing and bent trumpet.
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C.
Tommy Flanagan
Tommy Flanagan is a Scottish actor best known for his rugged character roles in films and television series such as "Braveheart" and "Sons of Anarchy."
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D.
George Wein
George Wein was an influential American jazz impresario, pianist, and producer best known for pioneering modern music festivals and shaping the global jazz festival landscape.
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E.
Ahmad Jamal
Ahmad Jamal was an influential American jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader known for his innovative use of space, dynamics, and subtlety in small-group jazz.
- 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: Stan Getz Target entity description: Stan Getz was an American jazz saxophonist renowned for his warm, lyrical tone and for popularizing bossa nova in the United States through landmark recordings like "The Girl from Ipanema."
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A.
Lester Young
Lester Young was an influential American tenor saxophonist whose cool, lyrical style helped define the sound of Kansas City jazz and profoundly shaped modern jazz improvisation.
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B.
Dizzy Gillespie
Dizzy Gillespie was an influential American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, and key architect of bebop known for his virtuosic playing and bent trumpet.
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C.
Tommy Flanagan
Tommy Flanagan is a Scottish actor best known for his rugged character roles in films and television series such as "Braveheart" and "Sons of Anarchy."
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D.
George Wein
George Wein was an influential American jazz impresario, pianist, and producer best known for pioneering modern music festivals and shaping the global jazz festival landscape.
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E.
Ahmad Jamal
Ahmad Jamal was an influential American jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader known for his innovative use of space, dynamics, and subtlety in small-group jazz.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
jazz musician ⓘ recording artist ⓘ saxophonist ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1991 ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1940s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Astrud Gilberto
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Bill Evans ⓘ Charlie Byrd ⓘ Dizzy Gillespie ⓘ João Gilberto ⓘ Woody Herman ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance
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Grammy Award for Record of the Year ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | liver cancer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1927-02-02 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1991-06-06 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jewish American ⓘ |
| familyName | Getz ⓘ |
| fullName | Stanley Getz ⓘ |
| genre |
bebop
ⓘ
bossa nova ⓘ cool jazz ⓘ jazz ⓘ swing music ⓘ |
| givenName | Stanley ⓘ |
| instrument | tenor saxophone ⓘ |
| knownFor | popularizing bossa nova in the United States ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Woody Herman Orchestra
ⓘ
linked to:
Woody Herman
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| notableWork |
Focus
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Getz/Gilberto ⓘ Jazz Samba ⓘ Stan Getz & Bill Evans ⓘ
linked to:
Bill Evans
Stan Getz Plays ⓘ
linked to:
Stan Getz
The Girl from Ipanema ⓘ
linked to:
Ipanema
|
| occupation |
bandleader
ⓘ
composer ⓘ musician ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Philadelphia
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| placeOfDeath |
Malibu, California, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Malibu, California
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| recordLabel |
Columbia Records
ⓘ
Prestige Records ⓘ Roost Records ⓘ Verve Records ⓘ |
| residence |
California, United States
ⓘ
New York City, New York, United States ⓘ
linked to:
New York City
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| style |
lyrical improvisation
ⓘ
warm tone ⓘ |
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: Stan Getz Description of subject: Stan Getz was an American jazz saxophonist renowned for his warm, lyrical tone and for popularizing bossa nova in the United States through landmark recordings like "The Girl from Ipanema."
Referenced by (174)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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