Yusef Lateef
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Yusef Lateef was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer, and educator known for pioneering the integration of non-Western instruments and musical traditions into modern jazz.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Yusef Lateef canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6700563 — 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: Yusef Lateef Context triple: [Impulse! Records, notableArtist, Yusef Lateef]
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A.
Arif Mardin
Arif Mardin was a renowned Turkish-American record producer and arranger known for his influential work across pop, rock, and soul with artists such as Aretha Franklin, the Bee Gees, and Norah Jones.
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B.
Ibrahim Maalouf
Ibrahim Maalouf is a French-Lebanese trumpeter and composer renowned for blending jazz with Arabic musical traditions and quarter-tone techniques.
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C.
Aftab Iqbal
Aftab Iqbal was the son of the renowned philosopher-poet Allama Muhammad Iqbal and a Pakistani academic and literary figure in his own right.
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D.
Kayhan Kalhor
Kayhan Kalhor is an acclaimed Iranian kamancheh virtuoso and composer known for his innovative contributions to Persian classical music and cross-cultural collaborations.
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E.
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan was a legendary Pakistani vocalist and composer renowned for popularizing Qawwali music worldwide with his powerful, improvisational singing.
- 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: Yusef Lateef Target entity description: Yusef Lateef was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer, and educator known for pioneering the integration of non-Western instruments and musical traditions into modern jazz.
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A.
Arif Mardin
Arif Mardin was a renowned Turkish-American record producer and arranger known for his influential work across pop, rock, and soul with artists such as Aretha Franklin, the Bee Gees, and Norah Jones.
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B.
Ibrahim Maalouf
Ibrahim Maalouf is a French-Lebanese trumpeter and composer renowned for blending jazz with Arabic musical traditions and quarter-tone techniques.
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C.
Aftab Iqbal
Aftab Iqbal was the son of the renowned philosopher-poet Allama Muhammad Iqbal and a Pakistani academic and literary figure in his own right.
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D.
Kayhan Kalhor
Kayhan Kalhor is an acclaimed Iranian kamancheh virtuoso and composer known for his innovative contributions to Persian classical music and cross-cultural collaborations.
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E.
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan was a legendary Pakistani vocalist and composer renowned for popularizing Qawwali music worldwide with his powerful, improvisational singing.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (66)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
composer
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human ⓘ jazz musician ⓘ multi-instrumentalist ⓘ music educator ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 2013 ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1940 ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Art Blakey
NERFINISHED
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Cannonball Adderley NERFINISHED ⓘ Charles Mingus NERFINISHED ⓘ Donald Byrd NERFINISHED ⓘ Eric Dolphy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Grammy Award for Best New Age Album
NERFINISHED
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National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | William Emanuel Huddleston NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | prostate cancer ⓘ |
| convertedToReligion | Islam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1920-10-09 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2013-12-23 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of Massachusetts Amherst
NERFINISHED
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Wayne State University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | University of Massachusetts Amherst NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicity | African-American ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
ethnomusicology
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music education ⓘ |
| fullName | Yusef Abdul Lateef NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
hard bop
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jazz ⓘ post-bop ⓘ world music ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDegree | Doctorate in Education ⓘ |
| instrument |
bassoon
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flute ⓘ oboe ⓘ shakuhachi NERFINISHED ⓘ shehnai ⓘ tenor saxophone ⓘ various non-Western wind instruments ⓘ |
| movement | world music in jazz ⓘ |
| notableFor |
integration of non-Western instruments into jazz
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pioneering world music influences in modern jazz ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Eastern Sounds
NERFINISHED
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Psychicemotus NERFINISHED ⓘ The Blue Yusef Lateef NERFINISHED ⓘ The Centaur and the Phoenix NERFINISHED ⓘ Yusef Lateef's Detroit NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
composer
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educator ⓘ flautist ⓘ oboist ⓘ saxophonist ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Shutesbury, Massachusetts, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Atlantic Records
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Impulse! Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Prestige Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Savoy Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| residence |
Amherst, Massachusetts, United States
NERFINISHED
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Detroit, Michigan, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wrote |
Several works of fiction and non-fiction on music and spirituality
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The Repository of Scales and Melodic Patterns NERFINISHED ⓘ Yusef Lateef’s Autophysiopsychic Music NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearOfReligiousConversion | 1948 ⓘ |
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: Yusef Lateef Description of subject: Yusef Lateef was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer, and educator known for pioneering the integration of non-Western instruments and musical traditions into modern jazz.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.