Miles Davis Second Great Quintet
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The Miles Davis Second Great Quintet was a groundbreaking 1960s jazz ensemble featuring Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, and Tony Williams, renowned for its innovative, post-bop explorations and influential studio and live recordings.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Miles Davis Second Great Quintet canonical | 8 |
| Second Great Miles Davis Quintet | 2 |
| Miles Davis First Great Quintet | 1 |
| Miles Davis Second Great Quintet recordings | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T20866974 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Miles Davis Second Great Quintet Context triple: [First Great Quintet, associatedAct, Miles Davis Second Great Quintet]
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Miles Davis Rhythm Section
Miles Davis Rhythm Section was the renowned backing ensemble of Miles Davis, featuring key jazz musicians like Red Garland, Paul Chambers, and Philly Joe Jones, celebrated for their influential work on classic 1950s recordings.
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Miles Davis All Stars, Volume 1
Miles Davis All Stars, Volume 1 is an early Miles Davis jazz album featuring small-group performances that helped lay the groundwork for his later landmark recordings.
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Miles Davis Nonet
The Miles Davis Nonet was a pioneering small jazz ensemble led by trumpeter Miles Davis in the late 1940s that helped define the cool jazz style through its influential "Birth of the Cool" recordings.
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Miles: The New Miles Davis Quintet
"Miles: The New Miles Davis Quintet" is a landmark 1956 jazz album that introduced Miles Davis’s first great quintet, featuring John Coltrane and Red Garland, and helped define the hard bop era.
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Cookin' with the Miles Davis Quintet
Cookin' with the Miles Davis Quintet is a landmark 1956 hard bop jazz album featuring Miles Davis’s classic first great quintet with John Coltrane, Red Garland, Paul Chambers, and Philly Joe Jones.
- 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: Miles Davis Second Great Quintet Target entity description: The Miles Davis Second Great Quintet was a groundbreaking 1960s jazz ensemble featuring Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, and Tony Williams, renowned for its innovative, post-bop explorations and influential studio and live recordings.
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A.
Miles Davis Rhythm Section
Miles Davis Rhythm Section was the renowned backing ensemble of Miles Davis, featuring key jazz musicians like Red Garland, Paul Chambers, and Philly Joe Jones, celebrated for their influential work on classic 1950s recordings.
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B.
Miles Davis All Stars, Volume 1
Miles Davis All Stars, Volume 1 is an early Miles Davis jazz album featuring small-group performances that helped lay the groundwork for his later landmark recordings.
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C.
Miles Davis Nonet
The Miles Davis Nonet was a pioneering small jazz ensemble led by trumpeter Miles Davis in the late 1940s that helped define the cool jazz style through its influential "Birth of the Cool" recordings.
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D.
Miles: The New Miles Davis Quintet
"Miles: The New Miles Davis Quintet" is a landmark 1956 jazz album that introduced Miles Davis’s first great quintet, featuring John Coltrane and Red Garland, and helped define the hard bop era.
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E.
Cookin' with the Miles Davis Quintet
Cookin' with the Miles Davis Quintet is a landmark 1956 hard bop jazz album featuring Miles Davis’s classic first great quintet with John Coltrane, Red Garland, Paul Chambers, and Philly Joe Jones.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Miles Davis Second Great Quintet
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Ronald Levin Carter
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Wayne Shorter composition "Footprints"
linked to: Miles Davis Second Great Quintet