Reconstruction
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Reconstruction was a late-1970s jazz-funk band led by Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia that explored improvisational, groove-oriented music in a small-club setting.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Reconstruction canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6057586 — 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: Reconstruction Context triple: [Jerry Garcia, associatedAct, Reconstruction]
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A.
Reconstruction era
The Reconstruction era was the period following the American Civil War when the United States attempted to reintegrate the seceded Southern states and redefine the legal and social status of formerly enslaved people.
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B.
Civil War and Reconstruction South
The Civil War and Reconstruction South refers to the American Southern states during and immediately after the Civil War, marked by slavery’s violent collapse, military defeat, and the turbulent, often resisted efforts to rebuild society and redefine race relations.
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C.
Trilogy of Reconstruction
Trilogy of Reconstruction is a series of early 20th-century historical novels by Thomas Dixon Jr. that fictionalize and controversially glorify the Ku Klux Klan and the Reconstruction-era American South.
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D.
Reconstruction Amendments
The Reconstruction Amendments are a group of post–Civil War U.S. constitutional amendments that abolished slavery, defined citizenship and equal protection, and expanded civil and voting rights, particularly for formerly enslaved people.
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E.
Civil War
"Civil War" is a 2024 dystopian action-drama film written and directed by Alex Garland that follows a team of journalists documenting a near-future American conflict.
- 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: Reconstruction Target entity description: Reconstruction was a late-1970s jazz-funk band led by Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia that explored improvisational, groove-oriented music in a small-club setting.
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A.
Reconstruction era
The Reconstruction era was the period following the American Civil War when the United States attempted to reintegrate the seceded Southern states and redefine the legal and social status of formerly enslaved people.
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B.
Civil War and Reconstruction South
The Civil War and Reconstruction South refers to the American Southern states during and immediately after the Civil War, marked by slavery’s violent collapse, military defeat, and the turbulent, often resisted efforts to rebuild society and redefine race relations.
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C.
Trilogy of Reconstruction
Trilogy of Reconstruction is a series of early 20th-century historical novels by Thomas Dixon Jr. that fictionalize and controversially glorify the Ku Klux Klan and the Reconstruction-era American South.
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D.
Reconstruction Amendments
The Reconstruction Amendments are a group of post–Civil War U.S. constitutional amendments that abolished slavery, defined citizenship and equal protection, and expanded civil and voting rights, particularly for formerly enslaved people.
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E.
Civil War
"Civil War" is a 2024 dystopian action-drama film written and directed by Alex Garland that follows a team of journalists documenting a near-future American conflict.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American band
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jazz-funk band ⓘ |
| activePeriod | late 1970s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Grateful Dead
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Jerry Garcia Band ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| genre |
funk
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jazz ⓘ jazz-funk ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Ed Neumeister
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Gaylord Birch ⓘ Jerry Garcia ⓘ John Kahn ⓘ Merl Saunders ⓘ Ron Stallings ⓘ |
| leader | Jerry Garcia ⓘ |
| musicalStyle |
groove-oriented
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improvisational ⓘ |
| notableFor |
extended improvisations
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groove-based live performances ⓘ jazz-funk interpretations of songs ⓘ |
| notableInstrumentalist |
Ed Neumeister
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Gaylord Birch ⓘ Jerry Garcia ⓘ John Kahn ⓘ Merl Saunders ⓘ Ron Stallings ⓘ |
| performanceSetting | small clubs ⓘ |
| primaryBassist | John Kahn ⓘ |
| primaryDrummer | Gaylord Birch ⓘ |
| primaryGuitarist | Jerry Garcia ⓘ |
| primaryKeyboardist | Merl Saunders ⓘ |
| primarySaxophonist | Ron Stallings ⓘ |
| primaryTrombonist | Ed Neumeister ⓘ |
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: Reconstruction Description of subject: Reconstruction was a late-1970s jazz-funk band led by Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia that explored improvisational, groove-oriented music in a small-club setting.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.