Frank Foster
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Frank Foster was an American jazz saxophonist, composer, and arranger best known for his influential work with the Count Basie Orchestra.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Frank Foster canonical | 1 |
| Hank Crawford | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5270192 — 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: Frank Foster Context triple: [Count Basie Orchestra, notableMember, Frank Foster]
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A.
Leon Henderson
Leon Henderson was an American economist and government official who played a key role in managing wartime price controls and rationing during World War II.
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B.
Ed Bullins
Ed Bullins was an influential American playwright whose politically charged, experimental works made him a central voice in the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
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C.
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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D.
Freddie Green
Freddie Green was an American jazz guitarist renowned for his long tenure with the Count Basie Orchestra and his subtle, propulsive rhythm guitar style that defined big band swing.
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E.
Teddy Dunn
Teddy Dunn is an American actor best known for playing Duncan Kane on the television series "Veronica 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: Frank Foster Target entity description: Frank Foster was an American jazz saxophonist, composer, and arranger best known for his influential work with the Count Basie Orchestra.
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A.
Leon Henderson
Leon Henderson was an American economist and government official who played a key role in managing wartime price controls and rationing during World War II.
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B.
Ed Bullins
Ed Bullins was an influential American playwright whose politically charged, experimental works made him a central voice in the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
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C.
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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D.
Freddie Green
Freddie Green was an American jazz guitarist renowned for his long tenure with the Count Basie Orchestra and his subtle, propulsive rhythm guitar style that defined big band swing.
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E.
Teddy Dunn
Teddy Dunn is an American actor best known for playing Duncan Kane on the television series "Veronica Mars."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
arranger
ⓘ
composer ⓘ human ⓘ jazz musician ⓘ saxophonist ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 2011 ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1950 ⓘ |
| awardReceived | NEA Jazz Masters Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | kidney failure ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1928-09-23 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2011-07-26 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Wilberforce University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Black Americans
ⓘ
surface form:
African American
|
| familyName | Foster NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
big band arranging
ⓘ
jazz composition ⓘ |
| genre |
big band jazz
ⓘ
jazz ⓘ |
| givenName | Frank NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| instrument |
alto saxophone
ⓘ
tenor saxophone ⓘ |
| memberOf | Count Basie Orchestra NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| name | Frank Foster NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableRole | principal arranger for the Count Basie Orchestra ⓘ |
| notableWork |
arrangements for the Count Basie Orchestra
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“Blues in Hoss’ Flat” NERFINISHED ⓘ “Down for the Count” NERFINISHED ⓘ “Shiny Stockings” NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
arranger
ⓘ
composer ⓘ jazz saxophonist ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Cincinnati, Ohio, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Chesapeake, Virginia, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | leader of the Count Basie Orchestra ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Blue Note Records
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Pablo Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Prestige Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Savoy Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
New York City
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surface form:
New York City, New York, United States
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Cecelia Foster NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedWith |
Count Basie
NERFINISHED
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Elvin Jones NERFINISHED ⓘ Frank Wess NERFINISHED ⓘ Lester Young NERFINISHED ⓘ Thad Jones NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Frank Foster Description of subject: Frank Foster was an American jazz saxophonist, composer, and arranger best known for his influential work with the Count Basie Orchestra.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Hank Crawford