Curley Russell
E454364
Curley Russell was an American jazz double bassist known for his work in the bebop era alongside leading figures such as Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Curley Russell canonical | 4 |
| Curly Russell | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4568602 — 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: Curley Russell Context triple: [Ko-Ko, featuresMusician, Curley Russell]
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A.
Curly McLain
Curly McLain is the charming cowboy protagonist of the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "Oklahoma!"
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B.
Butch Coolidge
Butch Coolidge is a tough, aging boxer in the film "Pulp Fiction" who becomes entangled in a violent series of events after double-crossing a crime boss.
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C.
Don Robinson
Don Robinson is a former Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher known for his long career primarily with the Pittsburgh Pirates and his role as both a starter and reliever in the 1970s and 1980s.
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D.
Russell Johnson
Russell Johnson was a renowned American acoustician celebrated for designing the acoustics of major concert halls and performance venues around the world.
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E.
Ray Blanton
Ray Blanton was an American Democratic politician who served as governor of Tennessee in the late 1970s and became notorious for a clemency scandal involving the controversial pardoning of prisoners.
- 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: Curley Russell Target entity description: Curley Russell was an American jazz double bassist known for his work in the bebop era alongside leading figures such as Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie.
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A.
Curly McLain
Curly McLain is the charming cowboy protagonist of the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "Oklahoma!"
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B.
Butch Coolidge
Butch Coolidge is a tough, aging boxer in the film "Pulp Fiction" who becomes entangled in a violent series of events after double-crossing a crime boss.
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C.
Don Robinson
Don Robinson is a former Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher known for his long career primarily with the Pittsburgh Pirates and his role as both a starter and reliever in the 1970s and 1980s.
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D.
Russell Johnson
Russell Johnson was a renowned American acoustician celebrated for designing the acoustics of major concert halls and performance venues around the world.
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E.
Ray Blanton
Ray Blanton was an American Democratic politician who served as governor of Tennessee in the late 1970s and became notorious for a clemency scandal involving the controversial pardoning of prisoners.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
double bassist
ⓘ
human ⓘ jazz musician ⓘ |
| activeIn |
1940s
ⓘ
1950s ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Russell ⓘ |
| genre |
bebop
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jazz ⓘ |
| givenName | Curley ⓘ |
| instrument | double bass ⓘ |
| movement | bebop ⓘ |
| notableFor |
participation in the 1940s bebop scene in New York City
ⓘ
recordings with leading bebop soloists ⓘ |
| notableRole | rhythm section anchor in bebop ensembles ⓘ |
| occupation |
bassist
ⓘ
musician ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | New York City ⓘ |
| playedOn |
recordings with Bud Powell
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recordings with Charlie Parker ⓘ recordings with Dizzy Gillespie ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| style | modern jazz bass playing ⓘ |
| workedWith |
Bud Powell
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Charlie Parker ⓘ Dizzy Gillespie ⓘ Fats Navarro ⓘ Tadd Dameron ⓘ Thelonious Monk ⓘ |
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: Curley Russell Description of subject: Curley Russell was an American jazz double bassist known for his work in the bebop era alongside leading figures such as Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Curley Russell