Rex Stewart
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Rex Stewart was an American jazz cornetist and composer best known for his distinctive, expressive playing during his long tenure with Duke Ellington’s orchestra.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Rex Stewart canonical | 11 |
| Rex William Stewart Jr. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6209812 — 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: Rex Stewart Context triple: [Duke Ellington Orchestra, associatedAct, Rex Stewart]
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A.
Roy Stewart
Roy Stewart was an American silent film actor known for his roles in early Westerns and adventure films during the 1910s and 1920s.
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B.
Hal Stewart
Hal Stewart is the cameraman-turned-supervillain known as Tighten in the animated film "Megamind."
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C.
Roy McFarland
Roy McFarland is a former English central defender best known for his key role in Derby County’s successful teams of the late 1960s and 1970s and for earning numerous caps for the England national team.
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D.
Rex Walters
Rex Walters is an American former professional basketball player and college coach best known for his head coaching tenure at the University of San Francisco and his sharpshooting guard play at Kansas.
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E.
Rex Bell
Rex Bell was an American Western film actor who later became a Nevada rancher and politician, serving as the state's lieutenant governor in the 1950s.
- 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: Rex Stewart Target entity description: Rex Stewart was an American jazz cornetist and composer best known for his distinctive, expressive playing during his long tenure with Duke Ellington’s orchestra.
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A.
Roy Stewart
Roy Stewart was an American silent film actor known for his roles in early Westerns and adventure films during the 1910s and 1920s.
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B.
Hal Stewart
Hal Stewart is the cameraman-turned-supervillain known as Tighten in the animated film "Megamind."
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C.
Roy McFarland
Roy McFarland is a former English central defender best known for his key role in Derby County’s successful teams of the late 1960s and 1970s and for earning numerous caps for the England national team.
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D.
Rex Walters
Rex Walters is an American former professional basketball player and college coach best known for his head coaching tenure at the University of San Francisco and his sharpshooting guard play at Kansas.
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E.
Rex Bell
Rex Bell was an American Western film actor who later became a Nevada rancher and politician, serving as the state's lieutenant governor in the 1950s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Rex Stewart Description of subject: Rex Stewart was an American jazz cornetist and composer best known for his distinctive, expressive playing during his long tenure with Duke Ellington’s orchestra.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.