Fred Robinson
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Fred Robinson was an American jazz trombonist active in the 1920s and 1930s, known for his work with Louis Armstrong and other leading early jazz ensembles.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Fred Robinson canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T996600 — 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: Fred Robinson Context triple: [West End Blues, featuresPerformer, Fred Robinson]
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A.
Randolph Fields
Randolph Fields was a British-American lawyer and entrepreneur best known for co-founding the airline that became Virgin Atlantic Airways.
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B.
Joe Caldwell
Joe Caldwell is a former American professional basketball player best known for his scoring and athleticism in both the NBA and ABA during the 1960s and 1970s.
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C.
Larry Blanford
Larry Blanford is a professional cinematographer known for his work on feature films such as the romantic comedy "Think Like a Man."
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D.
Ralph Riggs
Ralph Riggs was an American stage actor best known for his work in mid-20th-century Broadway musicals, including originating a role in the landmark Rodgers and Hammerstein show "Oklahoma!".
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E.
Holton D. Robinson
Holton D. Robinson was an American civil engineer noted for his work on major suspension bridges in the early 20th century.
- 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: Fred Robinson Target entity description: Fred Robinson was an American jazz trombonist active in the 1920s and 1930s, known for his work with Louis Armstrong and other leading early jazz ensembles.
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A.
Randolph Fields
Randolph Fields was a British-American lawyer and entrepreneur best known for co-founding the airline that became Virgin Atlantic Airways.
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B.
Joe Caldwell
Joe Caldwell is a former American professional basketball player best known for his scoring and athleticism in both the NBA and ABA during the 1960s and 1970s.
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C.
Roy McGivern
Roy McGivern is a Northern Irish football administrator best known for serving as chairman of Linfield FC, one of the country’s most successful and historic clubs.
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D.
Larry Blanford
Larry Blanford is a professional cinematographer known for his work on feature films such as the romantic comedy "Think Like a Man."
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E.
Ralph Riggs
Ralph Riggs was an American stage actor best known for his work in mid-20th-century Broadway musicals, including originating a role in the landmark Rodgers and Hammerstein show "Oklahoma!".
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American jazz trombonist
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human ⓘ jazz musician ⓘ trombonist ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1930s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1920s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Louis Armstrong
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Louis Armstrong and His All Stars ⓘ
surface form:
Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra
Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five ⓘ
surface form:
Louis Armstrong and His Stompers
early jazz ensembles ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
jazz performance
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music ⓘ |
| genre |
early jazz
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jazz ⓘ |
| instrument | trombone ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | early jazz ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
participation in leading early jazz ensembles
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work with Louis Armstrong in the 1920s and 1930s ⓘ |
| notableWorkWith | Louis Armstrong ⓘ |
| occupation |
musician
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trombonist ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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: Fred Robinson Description of subject: Fred Robinson was an American jazz trombonist active in the 1920s and 1930s, known for his work with Louis Armstrong and other leading early jazz ensembles.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.