Curtis Amy
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Curtis Amy was an American jazz saxophonist and bandleader known for his soulful hard bop style and notable session work in the 1960s Los Angeles jazz scene.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Curtis Amy canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3651410 — 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: Curtis Amy Context triple: [Tapestry, featuresMusician, Curtis Amy]
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A.
Cress Williams
Cress Williams is an American actor best known for his television roles, including the lead in the superhero series "Black Lightning" and prominent parts in shows like "Hart of Dixie" and "Prison Break."
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B.
Curtis Craig
Curtis Craig was the male college student who served as the named plaintiff challenging Oklahoma's gender-based drinking age law in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Craig v. Boren.
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C.
Amanda Lucas
Amanda Lucas is an American actress and mixed martial artist best known as the adopted daughter of filmmaker George Lucas and for her small roles in the Star Wars prequel films.
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D.
Gil Robbins
Gil Robbins was an American folk musician and actor, best known as a member of the Highwaymen and for his work in the 1960s folk scene.
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E.
Robin Buckley
Robin Buckley is a witty, sharp-tongued Hawkins teen and Steve Harrington’s close friend who works with him at Scoops Ahoy and later helps uncover sinister mysteries in the series Stranger Things.
- 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: Curtis Amy Target entity description: Curtis Amy was an American jazz saxophonist and bandleader known for his soulful hard bop style and notable session work in the 1960s Los Angeles jazz scene.
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A.
Cress Williams
Cress Williams is an American actor best known for his television roles, including the lead in the superhero series "Black Lightning" and prominent parts in shows like "Hart of Dixie" and "Prison Break."
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B.
Curtis Craig
Curtis Craig was the male college student who served as the named plaintiff challenging Oklahoma's gender-based drinking age law in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Craig v. Boren.
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C.
Amanda Lucas
Amanda Lucas is an American actress and mixed martial artist best known as the adopted daughter of filmmaker George Lucas and for her small roles in the Star Wars prequel films.
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D.
Gil Robbins
Gil Robbins was an American folk musician and actor, best known as a member of the Highwaymen and for his work in the 1960s folk scene.
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E.
Robin Buckley
Robin Buckley is a witty, sharp-tongued Hawkins teen and Steve Harrington’s close friend who works with him at Scoops Ahoy and later helps uncover sinister mysteries in the series Stranger Things.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bandleader
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human ⓘ jazz musician ⓘ saxophonist ⓘ |
| activeIn | Los Angeles jazz scene ⓘ |
| activeYearsPeak | 1960s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1950s ⓘ |
| alsoPlayed | soprano saxophone ⓘ |
| basedIn | Los Angeles, California, United States ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
Bobby Hutcherson
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Carole King ⓘ Dupree Bolton ⓘ Gerald Wilson ⓘ Onzy Matthews ⓘ Ray Charles ⓘ Roy Ayers ⓘ The Doors ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1929-10-11 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2002-06-05 ⓘ |
| ethnicity | African-American ⓘ |
| genre |
hard bop
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jazz ⓘ soul jazz ⓘ |
| knownFor |
session work in 1960s Los Angeles
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soulful hard bop style ⓘ |
| mainInstrument |
alto saxophone
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tenor saxophone ⓘ |
| movement | West Coast jazz ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Groovin' Blue
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Katanga! ⓘ
linked to:
Katanga
Meetin' Here ⓘ Tippin' on Through ⓘ Way Down ⓘ |
| occupation |
bandleader
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composer ⓘ jazz saxophonist ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Houston, Texas, United States ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Los Angeles, California, United States ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Fontana Records
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Pacific Jazz Records ⓘ Verve Records ⓘ |
| roleInRecording |
played saxophone on Carole King's album "Tapestry"
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played saxophone on The Doors' song "Touch Me" ⓘ |
| spouse | Vi Redd ⓘ |
| style | blues-influenced improvisation ⓘ |
| taughtAt | public schools in Los Angeles ⓘ |
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: Curtis Amy Description of subject: Curtis Amy was an American jazz saxophonist and bandleader known for his soulful hard bop style and notable session work in the 1960s Los Angeles jazz scene.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.