Charles McPherson
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Charles McPherson is an American jazz alto saxophonist known for his bebop-rooted style and long association with bassist and composer Charles Mingus.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Charles McPherson canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5572221 — 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: Charles McPherson Context triple: [Charles Mingus, influenced, Charles McPherson]
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A.
Art Blakey
Art Blakey was an influential American jazz drummer and bandleader, best known for leading the Jazz Messengers and helping to shape the hard bop style while mentoring many future jazz greats.
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B.
Horace Maynard
Horace Maynard was a 19th-century American politician and diplomat from Tennessee who served in the U.S. House of Representatives and as U.S. Postmaster General.
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C.
Archie Shepp
Archie Shepp is an American jazz saxophonist, composer, and educator known for his avant-garde style and politically charged works in the 1960s and beyond.
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D.
Joe Henderson
Joe Henderson was an influential American jazz tenor saxophonist and composer known for his work in hard bop and post-bop, including classic Blue Note recordings and collaborations with leading jazz artists of the 1960s and beyond.
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E.
Thad Jones
Thad Jones was an influential American jazz trumpeter, composer, and bandleader known for his sophisticated arrangements and co-leading the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra.
- 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: Charles McPherson Target entity description: Charles McPherson is an American jazz alto saxophonist known for his bebop-rooted style and long association with bassist and composer Charles Mingus.
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A.
Art Blakey
Art Blakey was an influential American jazz drummer and bandleader, best known for leading the Jazz Messengers and helping to shape the hard bop style while mentoring many future jazz greats.
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B.
Horace Maynard
Horace Maynard was a 19th-century American politician and diplomat from Tennessee who served in the U.S. House of Representatives and as U.S. Postmaster General.
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C.
Archie Shepp
Archie Shepp is an American jazz saxophonist, composer, and educator known for his avant-garde style and politically charged works in the 1960s and beyond.
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D.
Joe Henderson
Joe Henderson was an influential American jazz tenor saxophonist and composer known for his work in hard bop and post-bop, including classic Blue Note recordings and collaborations with leading jazz artists of the 1960s and beyond.
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E.
Thad Jones
Thad Jones was an influential American jazz trumpeter, composer, and bandleader known for his sophisticated arrangements and co-leading the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
alto saxophonist
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bebop musician ⓘ human ⓘ jazz musician ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1950s ⓘ |
| associatedAct | Charles Mingus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1939-07-24 ⓘ |
| familyName | McPherson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
jazz improvisation
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music composition ⓘ music performance ⓘ |
| genre |
bebop
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jazz ⓘ |
| givenName | Charles ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Charles Mingus
NERFINISHED
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Charlie Parker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| instrument | alto saxophone ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Charles Mingus Jazz Workshop
NERFINISHED
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Charles Mingus Quintet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Charles McPherson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableEvent | Performed on soundtrack for film "Bird" directed by Clint Eastwood ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Album "Beautiful!"
NERFINISHED
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Album "Bebop Revisited!" NERFINISHED ⓘ Album "Charles McPherson" NERFINISHED ⓘ Album "Live at the Five Spot" NERFINISHED ⓘ Album "Siku Ya Bibi (Day of the Lady)" NERFINISHED ⓘ Album "The Quintet/Live!" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
composer
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musician ⓘ saxophonist ⓘ |
| performedWith |
Art Farmer
NERFINISHED
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Barry Harris NERFINISHED ⓘ Charles Mingus NERFINISHED ⓘ Phil Woods NERFINISHED ⓘ Wynton Marsalis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Joplin, Missouri, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Arabesque Records
NERFINISHED
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Capri Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Discovery Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Mainstream Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Prestige Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Xanadu Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | San Diego, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| style | bebop-rooted alto saxophone playing ⓘ |
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: Charles McPherson Description of subject: Charles McPherson is an American jazz alto saxophonist known for his bebop-rooted style and long association with bassist and composer Charles Mingus.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.