Dodds
E599718
Dodds is a surname most notably associated with Johnny Dodds, an influential early jazz clarinetist and bandleader from New Orleans.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dodds canonical | 10 |
| DS Dodds in McDonald & Dodds | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6606522 — 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: Dodds Context triple: [Johnny Dodds, familyName, Dodds]
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A.
Dodson
Dodson is a surname of English origin borne by various notable individuals across fields such as politics, sports, and the arts.
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B.
Dunn
Dunn is a surname of English and Irish origin borne by numerous notable individuals across fields such as politics, sports, and the arts.
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C.
Duggan
Duggan is a surname of Irish origin borne by various notable individuals across fields such as entertainment, sports, and politics.
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D.
Dinneen
Dinneen is a surname of Irish origin borne by various notable individuals in sports, politics, and the arts.
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E.
Daboll
Daboll is a surname most prominently associated with Brian Daboll, a professional American football coach in the National Football League.
- 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: Dodds Target entity description: Dodds is a surname most notably associated with Johnny Dodds, an influential early jazz clarinetist and bandleader from New Orleans.
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A.
Dodson
Dodson is a surname of English origin borne by various notable individuals across fields such as politics, sports, and the arts.
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B.
Dunn
Dunn is a surname of English and Irish origin borne by numerous notable individuals across fields such as politics, sports, and the arts.
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C.
Duggan
Duggan is a surname of Irish origin borne by various notable individuals across fields such as entertainment, sports, and politics.
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D.
Dinneen
Dinneen is a surname of Irish origin borne by various notable individuals in sports, politics, and the arts.
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E.
Daboll
Daboll is a surname most prominently associated with Brian Daboll, a professional American football coach in the National Football League.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bandleader
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human ⓘ jazz clarinetist ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| associatedWithGenre |
New Orleans jazz
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jazz ⓘ |
| birthPlace | New Orleans ⓘ |
| familyName |
Dodds
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Dodds ⓘ Dodds ⓘ |
| givenName | Johnny ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin |
English
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Scottish English ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Anita Dodds
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E. R. Dodds ⓘ Harold W. Dodds ⓘ Johnny Dodds ⓘ |
| hasVariant | Dodd ⓘ |
| instrument | clarinet ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
New Orleans jazz
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early jazz clarinet performance ⓘ |
| occupation |
bandleader
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classical scholar ⓘ musician ⓘ university president ⓘ |
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: Dodds Description of subject: Dodds is a surname most notably associated with Johnny Dodds, an influential early jazz clarinetist and bandleader from New Orleans.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Nigel Dodds (acting)
subject linked to:
Dodds
subject linked to:
Dodds
subject linked to:
Dodds
subject linked to:
Warren
linked to: Dodds