Kid Thomas Valentine
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Kid Thomas Valentine was an American traditional jazz trumpeter and bandleader from New Orleans, celebrated for his fiery, blues-infused style and long association with the city’s classic jazz revival.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kid Thomas Valentine canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5080868 — 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: Kid Thomas Valentine Context triple: [Preservation Hall Jazz Band, notableMember, Kid Thomas Valentine]
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A.
James Valentine
James Valentine is an American musician best known as the lead guitarist of the pop rock band Maroon 5.
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B.
Tobias Vaughn
Tobias Vaughn is a villainous industrialist and secret ally of the Cybermen in the Doctor Who serial "The Invasion."
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C.
Don Valentine
Don Valentine was a pioneering Silicon Valley venture capitalist and founder of Sequoia Capital, known for early investments in companies like Apple and Cisco.
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D.
Aidan Murphy
Aidan Murphy is the Irish actor better known professionally as Aidan Gillen, recognized for roles in series like "The Wire" and "Game of Thrones."
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E.
Jack Napier
Jack Napier is the gangster who becomes the Joker, the primary antagonist in Tim Burton’s 1989 Batman film.
- 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: Kid Thomas Valentine Target entity description: Kid Thomas Valentine was an American traditional jazz trumpeter and bandleader from New Orleans, celebrated for his fiery, blues-infused style and long association with the city’s classic jazz revival.
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A.
James Valentine
James Valentine is an American musician best known as the lead guitarist of the pop rock band Maroon 5.
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B.
Tobias Vaughn
Tobias Vaughn is a villainous industrialist and secret ally of the Cybermen in the Doctor Who serial "The Invasion."
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C.
Don Valentine
Don Valentine was a pioneering Silicon Valley venture capitalist and founder of Sequoia Capital, known for early investments in companies like Apple and Cisco.
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D.
Aidan Murphy
Aidan Murphy is the Irish actor better known professionally as Aidan Gillen, recognized for roles in series like "The Wire" and "Game of Thrones."
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E.
Jack Napier
Jack Napier is the gangster who becomes the Joker, the primary antagonist in Tim Burton’s 1989 Batman film.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bandleader
ⓘ
human ⓘ jazz trumpeter ⓘ |
| activeIn | New Orleans, Louisiana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Preservation Hall
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Preservation Hall Jazz Band NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1896-02-03 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Reserve, Louisiana, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1987-06-18 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | New Orleans, Louisiana, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | 20th-century jazz ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Black Americans
ⓘ
surface form:
African American
|
| fullName | Kid Thomas Valentine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
New Orleans jazz
ⓘ
traditional jazz ⓘ |
| givenName | Thomas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedBy | early New Orleans brass band tradition ⓘ |
| instrument | trumpet ⓘ |
| knownFor | maintaining an older New Orleans trumpet style into the late 20th century ⓘ |
| led | Kid Thomas Valentine’s band NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement | New Orleans jazz revival ⓘ |
| nickname | Kid Thomas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
long association with the New Orleans classic jazz revival scene
ⓘ
preserving classic New Orleans jazz traditions ⓘ |
| notableWork | recordings for the American Music label ⓘ |
| occupation |
bandleader
ⓘ
trumpeter ⓘ |
| performedAt | Preservation Hall in New Orleans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
American Music Records
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
GHB Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Jazz Crusade NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | New Orleans, Louisiana, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| style |
blues-infused trumpet playing
ⓘ
fiery performance style ⓘ |
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: Kid Thomas Valentine Description of subject: Kid Thomas Valentine was an American traditional jazz trumpeter and bandleader from New Orleans, celebrated for his fiery, blues-infused style and long association with the city’s classic jazz revival.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Preservation Hall Jazz Band