Don Alias
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Don Alias was an American jazz percussionist and drummer renowned for his versatile work in fusion, Latin jazz, and collaborations with artists like Miles Davis and Weather Report.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Don Alias canonical | 7 |
| Don Alias (percussion) | 1 |
| Don Alias as drummer | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2010542 — 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: Don Alias Context triple: [Mingus, featuresMusician, Don Alias]
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A.
Doug Aitken
Doug Aitken is an American contemporary artist known for his innovative multimedia installations, video art, and immersive environments that explore themes of modern life and landscape.
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B.
Will Butler
Will Butler is an American multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter best known for his work with the indie rock band Arcade Fire and his subsequent solo career.
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C.
Mark Fisher
Mark Fisher was a renowned British architect and stage designer best known for creating spectacular, large-scale concert productions for major rock acts such as U2, Pink Floyd, and The Rolling Stones.
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D.
Flying Lotus
Flying Lotus is an experimental electronic music producer and DJ known for his innovative fusion of hip hop, jazz, and abstract beats, and for founding the Brainfeeder label.
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E.
Jeff Bhasker
Jeff Bhasker is a Grammy-winning American record producer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist known for his influential work with artists like Kanye West, Fun., and Bruno Mars.
- 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: Don Alias Target entity description: Don Alias was an American jazz percussionist and drummer renowned for his versatile work in fusion, Latin jazz, and collaborations with artists like Miles Davis and Weather Report.
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A.
Doug Aitken
Doug Aitken is an American contemporary artist known for his innovative multimedia installations, video art, and immersive environments that explore themes of modern life and landscape.
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B.
Will Butler
Will Butler is an American multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter best known for his work with the indie rock band Arcade Fire and his subsequent solo career.
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C.
Mark Fisher
Mark Fisher was a renowned British architect and stage designer best known for creating spectacular, large-scale concert productions for major rock acts such as U2, Pink Floyd, and The Rolling Stones.
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D.
Flying Lotus
Flying Lotus is an experimental electronic music producer and DJ known for his innovative fusion of hip hop, jazz, and abstract beats, and for founding the Brainfeeder label.
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E.
Jeff Bhasker
Jeff Bhasker is a Grammy-winning American record producer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist known for his influential work with artists like Kanye West, Fun., and Bruno Mars.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
drummer
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human ⓘ jazz musician ⓘ percussionist ⓘ |
| artisticStyle | fusion of jazz and Latin rhythms ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Latin jazz groups
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Miles Davis ⓘ Weather Report ⓘ jazz fusion ensembles ⓘ |
| citizenship | American ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Alias ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
jazz performance
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music ⓘ studio recording ⓘ |
| genre |
Latin jazz
ⓘ
jazz ⓘ jazz fusion ⓘ |
| givenName | Don ⓘ |
| instrument |
drums
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percussion ⓘ |
| name | Don Alias self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor |
session work with major jazz artists
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versatile percussion work ⓘ |
| notableWork |
collaborations with Miles Davis
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collaborations with Weather Report ⓘ work in Latin jazz ⓘ work in jazz fusion ⓘ |
| occupation |
drummer
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percussionist ⓘ |
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: Don Alias Description of subject: Don Alias was an American jazz percussionist and drummer renowned for his versatile work in fusion, Latin jazz, and collaborations with artists like Miles Davis and Weather Report.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Don Alias (percussion)
subject surface form:
Shadows and Light
subject surface form:
Shadows and Light
this entity surface form:
Don Alias as drummer