Duke Pearson
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Duke Pearson was an influential American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger known for his work as a producer and bandleader, particularly associated with the Blue Note label in the 1960s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Duke Pearson canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5350070 — 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: Duke Pearson Context triple: [Speak Like a Child, producer, Duke Pearson]
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A.
Jack Bicknell
Jack Bicknell is an American football coach best known for leading Boston College to national prominence in the 1980s, including the famed Doug Flutie era and the 1984 Cotton Bowl victory.
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B.
Roger Edens
Roger Edens was an American composer, arranger, and producer best known for his influential work on classic MGM musicals in Hollywood’s Golden Age.
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C.
Kenneth Wayne Dryden
Kenneth Wayne Dryden is a Canadian former NHL goaltender for the Montreal Canadiens, a Hall of Famer, author, and former politician.
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D.
Harvey Dunn
Harvey Dunn was an American painter and illustrator renowned for his powerful depictions of frontier life and war, and as a prominent teacher who helped shape early 20th-century American illustration.
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E.
Leon Barmore
Leon Barmore is a legendary women's college basketball coach best known for leading the Louisiana Tech Lady Techsters to national prominence and multiple NCAA championships.
- 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: Duke Pearson Target entity description: Duke Pearson was an influential American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger known for his work as a producer and bandleader, particularly associated with the Blue Note label in the 1960s.
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A.
Jack Bicknell
Jack Bicknell is an American football coach best known for leading Boston College to national prominence in the 1980s, including the famed Doug Flutie era and the 1984 Cotton Bowl victory.
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B.
Roger Edens
Roger Edens was an American composer, arranger, and producer best known for his influential work on classic MGM musicals in Hollywood’s Golden Age.
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C.
Kenneth Wayne Dryden
Kenneth Wayne Dryden is a Canadian former NHL goaltender for the Montreal Canadiens, a Hall of Famer, author, and former politician.
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D.
Harvey Dunn
Harvey Dunn was an American painter and illustrator renowned for his powerful depictions of frontier life and war, and as a prominent teacher who helped shape early 20th-century American illustration.
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E.
Leon Barmore
Leon Barmore is a legendary women's college basketball coach best known for leading the Louisiana Tech Lady Techsters to national prominence and multiple NCAA championships.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
arranger
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bandleader ⓘ composer ⓘ human ⓘ jazz musician ⓘ jazz pianist ⓘ record producer ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1970s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1950s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Art Farmer
NERFINISHED
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Blue Note Records big band ⓘ Bobby Hutcherson NERFINISHED ⓘ Carmen McRae NERFINISHED ⓘ Donald Byrd NERFINISHED ⓘ Grant Green NERFINISHED ⓘ Johnny Coles NERFINISHED ⓘ Lee Morgan NERFINISHED ⓘ Stanley Turrentine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Columbus Calvin Pearson Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | multiple sclerosis ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1932-08-17 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1980-08-04 ⓘ |
| employer | Blue Note Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Pearson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
hard bop
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jazz ⓘ post-bop ⓘ |
| givenName | Columbus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedGenre | 1960s Blue Note sound ⓘ |
| instrument | piano ⓘ |
| name | Duke Pearson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nickname | Duke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAlbum |
Hush!
NERFINISHED
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Profile ⓘ Sweet Honey Bee NERFINISHED ⓘ The Right Touch NERFINISHED ⓘ Wahoo! NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Cristo Redentor
NERFINISHED
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Jeannine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
arranger
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bandleader ⓘ composer ⓘ pianist ⓘ record producer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Atlanta, Georgia, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Atlanta, Georgia, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | A&R director at Blue Note Records ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Blue Note Records ⓘ |
| style | melodic approach to hard bop and post-bop piano ⓘ |
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: Duke Pearson Description of subject: Duke Pearson was an influential American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger known for his work as a producer and bandleader, particularly associated with the Blue Note label in the 1960s.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.