Lenny White
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Lenny White is an American jazz fusion drummer best known for his work with Chick Corea’s band Return to Forever and his influential contributions to 1970s fusion.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lenny White canonical | 16 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3905255 — 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: Lenny White Context triple: [Chick Corea, associatedAct, Lenny White]
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A.
Buddy Miles
Buddy Miles was an American rock and funk drummer, vocalist, and songwriter best known for his work with Jimi Hendrix in Band of Gypsys and his own Buddy Miles Express.
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B.
Jimmy Cobb
Jimmy Cobb was an American jazz drummer best known for his subtle, swinging work on Miles Davis’s landmark album "Kind of Blue."
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C.
Mickey Hart
Mickey Hart is an American percussionist and musicologist best known as one of the drummers for the rock band the Grateful Dead and for his explorations of world music and rhythm.
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D.
Stanley Clarke
Stanley Clarke is an influential American jazz bassist and composer, renowned for his pioneering work in jazz fusion and virtuosic electric and acoustic bass performances.
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E.
Lyle Mays
Lyle Mays was an American jazz pianist, composer, and longtime collaborator of Pat Metheny, renowned for his sophisticated harmonies and influential work in contemporary 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: Lenny White Target entity description: Lenny White is an American jazz fusion drummer best known for his work with Chick Corea’s band Return to Forever and his influential contributions to 1970s fusion.
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A.
Buddy Miles
Buddy Miles was an American rock and funk drummer, vocalist, and songwriter best known for his work with Jimi Hendrix in Band of Gypsys and his own Buddy Miles Express.
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B.
Jimmy Cobb
Jimmy Cobb was an American jazz drummer best known for his subtle, swinging work on Miles Davis’s landmark album "Kind of Blue."
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C.
Mickey Hart
Mickey Hart is an American percussionist and musicologist best known as one of the drummers for the rock band the Grateful Dead and for his explorations of world music and rhythm.
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D.
Stanley Clarke
Stanley Clarke is an influential American jazz bassist and composer, renowned for his pioneering work in jazz fusion and virtuosic electric and acoustic bass performances.
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E.
Lyle Mays
Lyle Mays was an American jazz pianist, composer, and longtime collaborator of Pat Metheny, renowned for his sophisticated harmonies and influential work in contemporary jazz.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Lenny White Description of subject: Lenny White is an American jazz fusion drummer best known for his work with Chick Corea’s band Return to Forever and his influential contributions to 1970s fusion.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy (1973)
subject linked to:
Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy (1973)