Maceo Parker
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Maceo Parker is an American funk and soul saxophonist best known for his work with James Brown and Parliament-Funkadelic, as well as his influential solo career.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Maceo Parker canonical | 23 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5628511 — 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: Maceo Parker Context triple: [Talk Is Cheap, featuresMusician, Maceo Parker]
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A.
Charles McPherson
Charles McPherson is an American jazz alto saxophonist known for his bebop-rooted style and long association with bassist and composer Charles Mingus.
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B.
Archie Shepp
Archie Shepp is an American jazz saxophonist, composer, and educator known for his avant-garde style and politically charged works in the 1960s and beyond.
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C.
Art Blakey
Art Blakey was an influential American jazz drummer and bandleader, best known for leading the Jazz Messengers and helping to shape the hard bop style while mentoring many future jazz greats.
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D.
Bootsy Collins
Bootsy Collins is an American funk bassist, singer, and songwriter known for his flamboyant style and influential work with James Brown and Parliament-Funkadelic.
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E.
Freddie Hubbard
Freddie Hubbard was an influential American jazz trumpeter known for his powerful tone, virtuosic technique, and key contributions to hard bop and post-bop recordings from the 1960s onward.
- 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: Maceo Parker Target entity description: Maceo Parker is an American funk and soul saxophonist best known for his work with James Brown and Parliament-Funkadelic, as well as his influential solo career.
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A.
Charles McPherson
Charles McPherson is an American jazz alto saxophonist known for his bebop-rooted style and long association with bassist and composer Charles Mingus.
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B.
Archie Shepp
Archie Shepp is an American jazz saxophonist, composer, and educator known for his avant-garde style and politically charged works in the 1960s and beyond.
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C.
Art Blakey
Art Blakey was an influential American jazz drummer and bandleader, best known for leading the Jazz Messengers and helping to shape the hard bop style while mentoring many future jazz greats.
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D.
Bootsy Collins
Bootsy Collins is an American funk bassist, singer, and songwriter known for his flamboyant style and influential work with James Brown and Parliament-Funkadelic.
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E.
Freddie Hubbard
Freddie Hubbard was an influential American jazz trumpeter known for his powerful tone, virtuosic technique, and key contributions to hard bop and post-bop recordings from the 1960s onward.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
funk musician
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human ⓘ musician ⓘ saxophonist ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1960s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Bootsy Collins
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Fred Wesley ⓘ George Clinton ⓘ James Brown ⓘ Parliament-Funkadelic ⓘ Prince ⓘ Ray Charles ⓘ The J.B.'s ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
De La Soul
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Red Hot Chili Peppers ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1943-02-14 ⓘ |
| familyName | Parker ⓘ |
| genre |
funk
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rhythm and blues ⓘ soul ⓘ |
| givenName | Maceo ⓘ |
| hasSibling | Melvin Parker ⓘ |
| influencedGenre |
acid jazz
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funk ⓘ neo-soul ⓘ |
| instrument |
alto saxophone
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tenor saxophone ⓘ |
| name | Maceo Parker ⓘ |
| notableFor |
influential funk saxophone solos
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work with James Brown ⓘ work with Parliament-Funkadelic ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Dial: M-A-C-E-O
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Funk Overload ⓘ Life on Planet Groove ⓘ Made by Maceo ⓘ Mo' Roots ⓘ Roots Revisited ⓘ Soul Classics ⓘ |
| occupation |
bandleader
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composer ⓘ saxophonist ⓘ singer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Kinston, North Carolina, United States ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Minor Music
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Verve Records ⓘ What Are Records? ⓘ |
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: Maceo Parker Description of subject: Maceo Parker is an American funk and soul saxophonist best known for his work with James Brown and Parliament-Funkadelic, as well as his influential solo career.
Referenced by (23)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.