Wynton Marsalis
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Wynton Marsalis is an American trumpeter, composer, and bandleader renowned for his virtuosity in both jazz and classical music and for serving as artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Wynton Marsalis canonical | 206 |
| Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center | 1 |
| Marsalis | 1 |
| Wynton | 1 |
| trumpet – Wynton Marsalis | 1 |
| trumpeter Wynton Marsalis | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T391829 — 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: Wynton Marsalis Context triple: [Super Bowl XX, anthemPerformer, Wynton Marsalis]
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A.
Jason Moran
Jason Moran is an acclaimed American jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader known for his innovative approach to contemporary jazz and frequent collaborations across music and film.
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B.
Herbie Hancock
Herbie Hancock is an influential American jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader known for his work with Miles Davis and for pioneering jazz fusion and electronic music.
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C.
Miles Davis
Miles Davis was a pioneering American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer who profoundly shaped the development of modern jazz through landmark albums like "Kind of Blue."
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D.
Lionel Hampton
Lionel Hampton was an influential American jazz vibraphonist, bandleader, composer, and percussionist, renowned for his work with Benny Goodman and for helping popularize the vibraphone in jazz.
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E.
Tony Williams
Tony Williams is an American singer, songwriter, and producer best known for his frequent collaborations with Kanye West and contributions to the G.O.O.D. Music collective.
- 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: Wynton Marsalis Target entity description: Wynton Marsalis is an American trumpeter, composer, and bandleader renowned for his virtuosity in both jazz and classical music and for serving as artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center.
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A.
Jason Moran
Jason Moran is an acclaimed American jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader known for his innovative approach to contemporary jazz and frequent collaborations across music and film.
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B.
Herbie Hancock
Herbie Hancock is an influential American jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader known for his work with Miles Davis and for pioneering jazz fusion and electronic music.
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C.
Miles Davis
Miles Davis was a pioneering American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer who profoundly shaped the development of modern jazz through landmark albums like "Kind of Blue."
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D.
Lionel Hampton
Lionel Hampton was an influential American jazz vibraphonist, bandleader, composer, and percussionist, renowned for his work with Benny Goodman and for helping popularize the vibraphone in jazz.
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E.
Tony Williams
Tony Williams is an American singer, songwriter, and producer best known for his frequent collaborations with Kanye West and contributions to the G.O.O.D. Music collective.
- 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: Wynton Marsalis Description of subject: Wynton Marsalis is an American trumpeter, composer, and bandleader renowned for his virtuosity in both jazz and classical music and for serving as artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center.
Referenced by (211)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Wynton Marsalis
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Where or When (song)
subject linked to:
Ken Burns documentary series "Jazz"