Johnny Dodds
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Johnny Dodds was an influential early jazz clarinetist and bandleader associated with the New Orleans and Chicago jazz scenes of the 1920s.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Johnny Dodds canonical | 16 |
| Jimmie Noone | 1 |
| Johnny Dodds (piano) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1010494 — 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: Johnny Dodds Context triple: [Heebie Jeebies, hasPerformer, Johnny Dodds]
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A.
Dooley Wilson
Dooley Wilson was an American actor and singer best known for his iconic performance as Sam, the piano player who sings "As Time Goes By," in the classic film Casablanca.
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B.
Hoagy Carmichael
Hoagy Carmichael was an American composer, pianist, singer, and actor best known for writing enduring jazz and pop standards such as "Stardust," "Georgia on My Mind," and "Heart and Soul."
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C.
Tommy Dorsey
Tommy Dorsey was a prominent American jazz trombonist and big band leader, famed for his smooth tone and influential swing-era recordings.
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D.
Bennie Moten
Bennie Moten was an influential American jazz pianist and bandleader whose Kansas City–based orchestra helped shape the swing era and launched the careers of several future Count Basie band stars.
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E.
Oscar Charleston
Oscar Charleston was an American baseball center fielder widely regarded as one of the greatest players in Negro league history, known for his combination of power, speed, and defensive brilliance.
- 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: Johnny Dodds Target entity description: Johnny Dodds was an influential early jazz clarinetist and bandleader associated with the New Orleans and Chicago jazz scenes of the 1920s.
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A.
Dooley Wilson
Dooley Wilson was an American actor and singer best known for his iconic performance as Sam, the piano player who sings "As Time Goes By," in the classic film Casablanca.
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B.
Hoagy Carmichael
Hoagy Carmichael was an American composer, pianist, singer, and actor best known for writing enduring jazz and pop standards such as "Stardust," "Georgia on My Mind," and "Heart and Soul."
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C.
Tommy Dorsey
Tommy Dorsey was a prominent American jazz trombonist and big band leader, famed for his smooth tone and influential swing-era recordings.
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D.
Bennie Moten
Bennie Moten was an influential American jazz pianist and bandleader whose Kansas City–based orchestra helped shape the swing era and launched the careers of several future Count Basie band stars.
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E.
Oscar Charleston
Oscar Charleston was an American baseball center fielder widely regarded as one of the greatest players in Negro league history, known for his combination of power, speed, and defensive brilliance.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bandleader
ⓘ
clarinetist ⓘ human ⓘ jazz musician ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1940 ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1910 ⓘ |
| associatedBand |
Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers
ⓘ
surface form:
Jelly Roll Morton’s Red Hot Peppers
King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band ⓘ
surface form:
King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band
Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five ⓘ Louis Armstrong and His Hot Seven ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Chicago jazz
ⓘ
surface form:
Chicago jazz scene
New Orleans jazz scene ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1892-04-12 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | New Orleans, Louisiana, United States ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Lincoln Cemetery, Blue Island, Illinois, United States ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | heart attack ⓘ |
| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1940-08-08 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Chicago, Illinois, United States ⓘ |
| familyName | Dodds ⓘ |
| genre |
Dixieland
ⓘ
New Orleans jazz ⓘ jazz ⓘ |
| givenName | Johnny ⓘ |
| influenced |
Benny Goodman
ⓘ
Pee Wee Russell ⓘ Sidney Bechet ⓘ later traditional jazz clarinetists ⓘ |
| instrument | clarinet ⓘ |
| name | Johnny Dodds self-link ⓘ |
| notableBandLed |
Johnny Dodds' Black Bottom Stompers
ⓘ
Clarence Williams' Jazz Kings ⓘ
surface form:
Johnny Dodds' Washboard Band
|
| notableFor |
being a leading early jazz clarinetist of the 1920s
ⓘ
contributions to classic New Orleans and Chicago jazz recordings ⓘ |
| notableRecording |
Melancholy
ⓘ
Perdido Street Blues ⓘ Wild Man Blues ⓘ |
| notableWork |
recordings with Jelly Roll Morton’s Red Hot Peppers
ⓘ
recordings with Louis Armstrong's Hot Five ⓘ recordings with Louis Armstrong's Hot Seven ⓘ |
| occupation |
bandleader
ⓘ
clarinetist ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Columbia Records
ⓘ
Okeh Records ⓘ
surface form:
OKeh Records
Victor Records ⓘ |
| sibling | Baby Dodds ⓘ |
| style |
blues-influenced clarinet playing
ⓘ
expressive tone ⓘ |
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: Johnny Dodds Description of subject: Johnny Dodds was an influential early jazz clarinetist and bandleader associated with the New Orleans and Chicago jazz scenes of the 1920s.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Johnny Dodds (piano)
subject surface form:
Earl Hines
this entity surface form:
Jimmie Noone