Moran
E210431
Moran is a surname most prominently associated with American jazz pianist and composer Jason Moran.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Moran canonical | 19 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1881228 — 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: Moran Context triple: [Jason Moran, familyName, Moran]
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A.
Callaghan
Callaghan is a surname of Irish origin borne by numerous notable individuals in politics, sports, and the arts.
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B.
Murphy
Murphy is a common Irish-origin surname borne by numerous notable individuals across entertainment, politics, sports, and other fields.
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C.
Gavan
Gavan is a given name, typically a variant spelling of Gavin, used as a masculine first name in English-speaking contexts.
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D.
Durkan
Durkan is a surname most notably associated with Jenny Durkan, the former mayor of Seattle and an American attorney and politician.
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E.
Jeffrey
Jeffrey is a masculine given name of Germanic origin, commonly used in English-speaking countries.
- 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: Moran Target entity description: Moran is a surname most prominently associated with American jazz pianist and composer Jason Moran.
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A.
Callaghan
Callaghan is a surname of Irish origin borne by numerous notable individuals in politics, sports, and the arts.
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B.
Murphy
Murphy is a common Irish-origin surname borne by numerous notable individuals across entertainment, politics, sports, and other fields.
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C.
Gavan
Gavan is a given name, typically a variant spelling of Gavin, used as a masculine first name in English-speaking contexts.
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D.
Durkan
Durkan is a surname most notably associated with Jenny Durkan, the former mayor of Seattle and an American attorney and politician.
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E.
Jeffrey
Jeffrey is a masculine given name of Germanic origin, commonly used in English-speaking countries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
composer
ⓘ
family name ⓘ human ⓘ jazz pianist ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Bill Frisell
ⓘ
Charles Lloyd ⓘ Greg Osby ⓘ Ibrahim Maalouf ⓘ Meshell Ndegeocello ⓘ Sam Rivers ⓘ The Bandwagon ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
MacArthur Fellowship
ⓘ
Pew Fellowship in the Arts ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | New England Conservatory of Music ⓘ |
| familyName | Moran ⓘ |
| genre |
avant-garde jazz
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contemporary jazz ⓘ jazz ⓘ |
| givenName | Jason ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Jason Moran ⓘ |
| instrument | piano ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin |
English
ⓘ
Irish ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Artist in Residence
ⓘ
Black Stars ⓘ Modernistic ⓘ Ten ⓘ |
| occupation |
composer
ⓘ
educator ⓘ pianist ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Houston, Texas, United States ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Artistic Director for Jazz at the Kennedy Center ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Blue Note Records
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Yes Records ⓘ |
| usedBy | Jason Moran ⓘ |
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: Moran Description of subject: Moran is a surname most prominently associated with American jazz pianist and composer Jason Moran.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.