Jackie McLean
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Jackie McLean was an influential American alto saxophonist and composer, a key figure in hard bop and post-bop jazz known for his distinctive biting tone and adventurous, modernist approach.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jackie McLean canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6763310 — 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: Jackie McLean Context triple: [Tony Williams, collaboratedWith, Jackie McLean]
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A.
Wardell Gray
Wardell Gray was an American jazz tenor saxophonist known for his virtuosic bebop playing and influential work with bands led by Benny Goodman and Count Basie in the 1940s and early 1950s.
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B.
Sonny Stitt
Sonny Stitt was an American jazz saxophonist renowned for his virtuosic bebop and hard bop playing, often associated with the stylistic legacy of Charlie Parker.
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C.
Hank Mobley
Hank Mobley was an influential American hard bop tenor saxophonist known for his warm tone, lyrical improvisation, and work with the Jazz Messengers and Blue Note Records.
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D.
Roy Eldridge
Roy Eldridge was an influential American jazz trumpeter known for his fiery style and as a key link between swing and bebop.
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E.
Bud Powell
Bud Powell was a pioneering American jazz pianist and key figure in the bebop movement, renowned for his virtuosic technique and influential improvisational style.
- 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: Jackie McLean Target entity description: Jackie McLean was an influential American alto saxophonist and composer, a key figure in hard bop and post-bop jazz known for his distinctive biting tone and adventurous, modernist approach.
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A.
Wardell Gray
Wardell Gray was an American jazz tenor saxophonist known for his virtuosic bebop playing and influential work with bands led by Benny Goodman and Count Basie in the 1940s and early 1950s.
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B.
Sonny Stitt
Sonny Stitt was an American jazz saxophonist renowned for his virtuosic bebop and hard bop playing, often associated with the stylistic legacy of Charlie Parker.
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C.
Hank Mobley
Hank Mobley was an influential American hard bop tenor saxophonist known for his warm tone, lyrical improvisation, and work with the Jazz Messengers and Blue Note Records.
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D.
Roy Eldridge
Roy Eldridge was an influential American jazz trumpeter known for his fiery style and as a key link between swing and bebop.
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E.
Bud Powell
Bud Powell was a pioneering American jazz pianist and key figure in the bebop movement, renowned for his virtuosic technique and influential improvisational style.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
alto saxophonist
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bandleader ⓘ composer ⓘ human ⓘ jazz musician ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 2000s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1940s ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Art Blakey
NERFINISHED
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Blue Note Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Charles Mingus NERFINISHED ⓘ Miles Davis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1931-05-17 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2006-03-31 ⓘ |
| era | 20th-century music ⓘ |
| ethnicity | African American ⓘ |
| familyName | McLean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| founded | African American Music Program at the Hartt School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | John Lenwood McLean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
hard bop
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jazz ⓘ post-bop ⓘ |
| givenName | John NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced | modern jazz saxophonists ⓘ |
| instrument | alto saxophone ⓘ |
| movement |
hard bop
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post-bop ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
adventurous modernist approach
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distinctive biting tone ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Capuchin Swing
NERFINISHED
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Destination... Out! NERFINISHED ⓘ Let Freedom Ring NERFINISHED ⓘ New Soil NERFINISHED ⓘ One Step Beyond NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
composer
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music educator ⓘ musician ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
New York
NERFINISHED
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New York City ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Hartford, Connecticut NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Blue Note Records
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Prestige Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stageName | Jackie McLean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| styleCharacteristic |
advanced harmonic language
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sharp intonation ⓘ |
| taughtAt |
Hartt School of Music
NERFINISHED
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University of Hartford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Jackie McLean Description of subject: Jackie McLean was an influential American alto saxophonist and composer, a key figure in hard bop and post-bop jazz known for his distinctive biting tone and adventurous, modernist approach.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.