Alphonso Johnson
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Alphonso Johnson is an American jazz and jazz fusion bassist best known for his work with Weather Report and numerous other influential fusion and rock acts.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alphonso Johnson canonical | 12 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5921438 — 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: Alphonso Johnson Context triple: [The Other Ones, notableMember, Alphonso Johnson]
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A.
Alonzo Harris
Alonzo Harris is a corrupt and manipulative LAPD narcotics detective portrayed by Denzel Washington in the film "Training Day."
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B.
Everett LeRoi Jones
Everett LeRoi Jones, better known as Amiri Baraka, was a prominent American poet, playwright, and activist associated with the Beat Generation and a leading figure in the Black Arts Movement.
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C.
Ed Bolden
Ed Bolden was a pioneering African American baseball executive and key architect of early Negro league baseball in the United States.
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D.
Jamaal Wilkes
Jamaal Wilkes is a Hall of Fame American basketball player best known for his smooth scoring and key role on multiple NBA championship teams, particularly with the Los Angeles Lakers.
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E.
Willis Jackson
Willis Jackson is a central character on the sitcom "Diff'rent Strokes," portrayed as the streetwise older brother who, along with his younger sibling Arnold, is adopted by wealthy widower Philip Drummond.
- 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: Alphonso Johnson Target entity description: Alphonso Johnson is an American jazz and jazz fusion bassist best known for his work with Weather Report and numerous other influential fusion and rock acts.
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A.
Alonzo Harris
Alonzo Harris is a corrupt and manipulative LAPD narcotics detective portrayed by Denzel Washington in the film "Training Day."
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B.
Everett LeRoi Jones
Everett LeRoi Jones, better known as Amiri Baraka, was a prominent American poet, playwright, and activist associated with the Beat Generation and a leading figure in the Black Arts Movement.
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C.
Ed Bolden
Ed Bolden was a pioneering African American baseball executive and key architect of early Negro league baseball in the United States.
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D.
Jamaal Wilkes
Jamaal Wilkes is a Hall of Fame American basketball player best known for his smooth scoring and key role on multiple NBA championship teams, particularly with the Los Angeles Lakers.
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E.
Willis Jackson
Willis Jackson is a central character on the sitcom "Diff'rent Strokes," portrayed as the streetwise older brother who, along with his younger sibling Arnold, is adopted by wealthy widower Philip Drummond.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bassist
ⓘ
human ⓘ jazz fusion musician ⓘ musician ⓘ |
| activeIn |
1970s
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1980s ⓘ 1990s ⓘ 2000s ⓘ 2010s ⓘ 2020s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Airto Moreira
ⓘ
Billy Cobham ⓘ Chaka Khan ⓘ Flora Purim ⓘ George Duke ⓘ Jaco Pastorius ⓘ Jazz Is Dead ⓘ Joe Zawinul ⓘ Phil Collins ⓘ Santana ⓘ
linked to:
Santana (band)
The Crusaders ⓘ Wayne Shorter ⓘ Weather Report ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Johnson ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
jazz fusion performance
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jazz performance ⓘ music ⓘ |
| genre |
jazz
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jazz fusion ⓘ rock ⓘ |
| givenName | Alphonso ⓘ |
| instrument |
bass guitar
ⓘ
double bass ⓘ electric bass ⓘ |
| memberOf | Weather Report ⓘ |
| name | Alphonso Johnson ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableAlbum |
Moonshadows
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Spellbound ⓘ Yesterday's Dreams ⓘ |
| notableFor | pioneering work on electric bass in jazz fusion ⓘ |
| notableWork | performances and recordings with Weather Report ⓘ |
| occupation |
bassist
ⓘ
composer ⓘ music educator ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Columbia Records
ⓘ
Epic Records ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Alphonso Johnson Description of subject: Alphonso Johnson is an American jazz and jazz fusion bassist best known for his work with Weather Report and numerous other influential fusion and rock acts.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.