Cornelius Hodges
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Cornelius Hodges is the birth name of Johnny Hodges, the renowned American jazz alto saxophonist best known for his long association with Duke Ellington's orchestra.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Cornelius Hodges canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5552827 — 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: Cornelius Hodges Context triple: [Johnny Hodges, birthName, Cornelius Hodges]
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Harry J. Elam Jr.
Harry J. Elam Jr. is an American theater scholar and academic leader who became the first Black president of Occidental College.
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B.
LeRoy Pope Walker
LeRoy Pope Walker was the first Confederate States Secretary of War, overseeing the Confederate war effort at the outset of the American Civil War.
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C.
Lofton R. Henderson
Lofton R. Henderson was a U.S. Marine Corps aviator and squadron commander killed during the Battle of Midway in World War II, remembered for his leadership and sacrifice in one of the war’s pivotal engagements.
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D.
Wilmer C. Butler
Wilmer C. Butler, better known as Bill Butler, was an American cinematographer renowned for his work on films such as "Jaws," "Rocky II–IV," and "One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest."
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E.
Wilbert Montgomery
Wilbert Montgomery is a former NFL running back best known for his prolific rushing career with the Philadelphia Eagles in the late 1970s and early 1980s, including key performances that helped lead the team to Super Bowl XV.
- 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: Cornelius Hodges Target entity description: Cornelius Hodges is the birth name of Johnny Hodges, the renowned American jazz alto saxophonist best known for his long association with Duke Ellington's orchestra.
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A.
Harry J. Elam Jr.
Harry J. Elam Jr. is an American theater scholar and academic leader who became the first Black president of Occidental College.
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B.
LeRoy Pope Walker
LeRoy Pope Walker was the first Confederate States Secretary of War, overseeing the Confederate war effort at the outset of the American Civil War.
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C.
Lofton R. Henderson
Lofton R. Henderson was a U.S. Marine Corps aviator and squadron commander killed during the Battle of Midway in World War II, remembered for his leadership and sacrifice in one of the war’s pivotal engagements.
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D.
Wilmer C. Butler
Wilmer C. Butler, better known as Bill Butler, was an American cinematographer renowned for his work on films such as "Jaws," "Rocky II–IV," and "One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest."
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E.
Wilbert Montgomery
Wilbert Montgomery is a former NFL running back best known for his prolific rushing career with the Philadelphia Eagles in the late 1970s and early 1980s, including key performances that helped lead the team to Super Bowl XV.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American jazz alto saxophonist
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alto saxophonist ⓘ human ⓘ jazz musician ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Duke Ellington
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Duke Ellington Orchestra ⓘ |
| birthName | Cornelius Hodges ⓘ |
| birthNameOf | Johnny Hodges ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| genre | jazz ⓘ |
| instrument | alto saxophone ⓘ |
| knownFor |
membership in Duke Ellington Orchestra
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work with Duke Ellington ⓘ |
| memberOf | Duke Ellington Orchestra ⓘ |
| name | Cornelius Hodges ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
lyrical alto saxophone style
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role as a leading soloist in Duke Ellington's band ⓘ |
| occupation |
musician
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saxophonist ⓘ |
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: Cornelius Hodges Description of subject: Cornelius Hodges is the birth name of Johnny Hodges, the renowned American jazz alto saxophonist best known for his long association with Duke Ellington's orchestra.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.