Robert Hurst
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Robert Hurst is an American jazz bassist and composer known for his work with prominent artists and contributions to contemporary jazz recordings.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Robert Hurst canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6222318 — 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: Robert Hurst Context triple: [Brown Sugar, musicBy, Robert Hurst]
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A.
Ian Hill
Ian Hill is an English bassist best known as a founding member of the heavy metal band Judas Priest.
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B.
John Talman
John Talman was an English antiquary and art collector of the early 18th century, notable for his pioneering role in the study and preservation of historical artifacts and artworks.
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C.
Paul Hill
Paul Hill is an Irish man who became widely known as one of the "Guildford Four," a group whose wrongful convictions for the 1974 Guildford pub bombings became a landmark miscarriage-of-justice case in the UK.
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D.
Jim Hutton
Jim Hutton was an Irish hairdresser best known as the long-term partner of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury during the final years of Mercury’s life.
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E.
Jim Hutton
Jim Hutton was an American actor best known for his lanky, affable screen presence in 1960s comedies and for playing the title role in the TV series "Ellery Queen."
- 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: Robert Hurst Target entity description: Robert Hurst is an American jazz bassist and composer known for his work with prominent artists and contributions to contemporary jazz recordings.
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A.
Ian Hill
Ian Hill is an English bassist best known as a founding member of the heavy metal band Judas Priest.
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B.
John Talman
John Talman was an English antiquary and art collector of the early 18th century, notable for his pioneering role in the study and preservation of historical artifacts and artworks.
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C.
Paul Hill
Paul Hill is an Irish man who became widely known as one of the "Guildford Four," a group whose wrongful convictions for the 1974 Guildford pub bombings became a landmark miscarriage-of-justice case in the UK.
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D.
Jim Hutton
Jim Hutton was an Irish hairdresser best known as the long-term partner of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury during the final years of Mercury’s life.
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E.
Jim Hutton
Jim Hutton was an American actor best known for his lanky, affable screen presence in 1960s comedies and for playing the title role in the TV series "Ellery Queen."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
composer
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jazz bassist ⓘ musician ⓘ person ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1980s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Branford Marsalis
NERFINISHED
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Branford Marsalis Quartet NERFINISHED ⓘ Charles Lloyd NERFINISHED ⓘ Chris Botti NERFINISHED ⓘ Dave Holland NERFINISHED ⓘ Diana Krall NERFINISHED ⓘ Elvin Jones NERFINISHED ⓘ Geri Allen NERFINISHED ⓘ Harry Connick Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ Jeff Watts NERFINISHED ⓘ Kenny Garrett NERFINISHED ⓘ Kenny Kirkland NERFINISHED ⓘ McCoy Tyner NERFINISHED ⓘ Mulgrew Miller NERFINISHED ⓘ Nicholas Payton NERFINISHED ⓘ Pharoah Sanders NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Glasper NERFINISHED ⓘ Roy Hargrove NERFINISHED ⓘ Terence Blanchard NERFINISHED ⓘ Tony Williams NERFINISHED ⓘ Wynton Marsalis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | contemporary jazz ⓘ |
| genre | jazz ⓘ |
| instrument |
bass guitar
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double bass ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Branford Marsalis Quartet
NERFINISHED
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Tonight Show Band NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
original member of Branford Marsalis’s band on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
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performed on numerous Grammy-winning jazz recordings ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Black Current Jam
NERFINISHED
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BoB: A Palindrome NERFINISHED ⓘ Bob Ya Head NERFINISHED ⓘ Unrehurst Volume 1 NERFINISHED ⓘ Unrehurst Volume 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ YEAH!!! NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
bassist
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composer ⓘ educator ⓘ professor of jazz bass ⓘ |
| recordLabel | NPR Music (as recording artist and featured performer) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Michigan, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Robert Hurst Description of subject: Robert Hurst is an American jazz bassist and composer known for his work with prominent artists and contributions to contemporary jazz recordings.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.