Tommy Dorsey
E113919
Tommy Dorsey was a prominent American jazz trombonist and big band leader, famed for his smooth tone and influential swing-era recordings.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tommy Dorsey canonical | 69 |
| Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra | 3 |
| Tommy Dorsey Orchestra | 1 |
| trombonist Tommy Dorsey | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T948207 — 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: Tommy Dorsey Context triple: [Kensico Cemetery, hasNotableBurial, Tommy Dorsey]
-
A.
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.
-
B.
Count Basie
Count Basie was a pioneering American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer whose swing-era orchestra became one of the most influential big bands in jazz history.
-
C.
Fletcher Henderson
Fletcher Henderson was a pioneering American jazz pianist, bandleader, and arranger whose influential big band helped shape the sound of early swing music.
-
D.
Erroll Garner
Erroll Garner was an influential American jazz pianist and composer, best known for his distinctive, swinging style and his widely recorded standard "Misty."
-
E.
Horace Silver
Horace Silver was an influential American jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader known for helping define the hard bop style with blues- and gospel-infused compositions.
- 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: Tommy Dorsey Target entity description: Tommy Dorsey was a prominent American jazz trombonist and big band leader, famed for his smooth tone and influential swing-era recordings.
-
A.
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.
-
B.
Count Basie
Count Basie was a pioneering American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer whose swing-era orchestra became one of the most influential big bands in jazz history.
-
C.
Fletcher Henderson
Fletcher Henderson was a pioneering American jazz pianist, bandleader, and arranger whose influential big band helped shape the sound of early swing music.
-
D.
Erroll Garner
Erroll Garner was an influential American jazz pianist and composer, best known for his distinctive, swinging style and his widely recorded standard "Misty."
-
E.
Horace Silver
Horace Silver was an influential American jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader known for helping define the hard bop style with blues- and gospel-infused compositions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Tommy Dorsey Description of subject: Tommy Dorsey was a prominent American jazz trombonist and big band leader, famed for his smooth tone and influential swing-era recordings.
Referenced by (74)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Tommy Dorsey
linked to: Tommy Dorsey
linked to: Tommy Dorsey
subject linked to:
Girl Crazy
linked to: Tommy Dorsey
subject linked to:
Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, New York, United States
subject linked to:
Mahanoy Plane, Pennsylvania, United States
linked to: Tommy Dorsey
subject linked to:
I’m Getting Sentimental Over You
subject linked to:
I’m Getting Sentimental Over You
subject linked to:
I’m Getting Sentimental Over You
subject linked to:
I’ll Never Smile Again
subject linked to:
I’ll Never Smile Again