Bean
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Bean is the famous jazz saxophonist Coleman Hawkins, a pioneering tenor sax player whose rich tone and improvisational style helped define early jazz.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bean canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2097082 — 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: Bean Context triple: [Coleman Hawkins, nickname, Bean]
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A.
Bean
Bean is a 1997 British-American comedy film based on Rowan Atkinson’s Mr. Bean character, following his chaotic misadventures in the United States.
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B.
The Bean
The Bean is a famous stainless steel public sculpture by artist Anish Kapoor located in Chicago’s Millennium Park, renowned for its highly polished, reflective surface and iconic, bean-like shape.
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C.
BEA
BEA is a U.S. government agency that produces key economic statistics, including measures of national income, output, and growth.
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D.
Jakarta Enterprise Beans
Jakarta Enterprise Beans is a Jakarta EE server-side component architecture that simplifies the development of transactional, secure, and scalable business logic in Java enterprise applications.
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E.
Bun
Bun is a modern, high-performance JavaScript runtime and toolkit designed as an alternative to Node.js and Deno, featuring a built-in bundler, test runner, and package manager.
- 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: Bean Target entity description: Bean is the famous jazz saxophonist Coleman Hawkins, a pioneering tenor sax player whose rich tone and improvisational style helped define early jazz.
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A.
Bean
Bean is a 1997 British-American comedy film based on Rowan Atkinson’s Mr. Bean character, following his chaotic misadventures in the United States.
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B.
The Bean
The Bean is a famous stainless steel public sculpture by artist Anish Kapoor located in Chicago’s Millennium Park, renowned for its highly polished, reflective surface and iconic, bean-like shape.
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C.
BEA
BEA is a U.S. government agency that produces key economic statistics, including measures of national income, output, and growth.
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D.
Jakarta Enterprise Beans
Jakarta Enterprise Beans is a Jakarta EE server-side component architecture that simplifies the development of transactional, secure, and scalable business logic in Java enterprise applications.
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E.
Bun
Bun is a modern, high-performance JavaScript runtime and toolkit designed as an alternative to Node.js and Deno, featuring a built-in bundler, test runner, and package manager.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American jazz saxophonist
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human ⓘ jazz musician ⓘ tenor saxophonist ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1969 ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1920 ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Duke Ellington
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Fletcher Henderson Orchestra ⓘ Max Roach ⓘ Roy Eldridge ⓘ Thelonious Monk ⓘ |
| birthName | Coleman Randolph Hawkins ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1904-11-21 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1969-05-19 ⓘ |
| education | studied music theory and harmony ⓘ |
| genre |
bebop
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jazz ⓘ swing ⓘ |
| influenced |
Ben Webster
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Dexter Gordon ⓘ John Coltrane ⓘ Lester Young ⓘ Sonny Rollins ⓘ |
| instrument |
saxophone
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tenor saxophone ⓘ |
| legacy | helped establish tenor saxophone as a leading jazz instrument ⓘ |
| movement |
bebop era
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swing era ⓘ |
| name | Coleman Hawkins ⓘ |
| nickname |
Bean
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The Hawk ⓘ
surface form:
Hawk
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| notableFor |
pioneering use of tenor saxophone in jazz
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rich tone and advanced improvisational style ⓘ |
| notableRecording |
Body and Soul
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surface form:
Body and Soul (1939 recording)
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| notableWork | Body and Soul ⓘ |
| occupation |
bandleader
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composer ⓘ musician ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
St. Joseph, Missouri
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surface form:
Saint Joseph, Missouri, United States
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| placeOfDeath |
New York City
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surface form:
New York City, New York, United States
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| recordLabel |
Bluebird Records
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Impulse! Records ⓘ RCA Victor ⓘ Verve Records ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| styleCharacteristic |
full-bodied, vibrato-rich tone
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vertical, arpeggio-based improvisation ⓘ |
| tour | Europe in the 1930s ⓘ |
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: Bean Description of subject: Bean is the famous jazz saxophonist Coleman Hawkins, a pioneering tenor sax player whose rich tone and improvisational style helped define early jazz.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Coleman Hawkins