Uriel Jones
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Uriel Jones was an American drummer best known for his work on numerous classic Motown recordings as a key studio musician.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Uriel Jones canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7287975 — 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: Uriel Jones Context triple: [The Funk Brothers, notableMember, Uriel Jones]
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A.
Julian Breece
Julian Breece is an American screenwriter and producer known for his work on socially conscious film and television projects, including co-writing the biographical drama "Rustin" (2023).
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B.
Joel Cairo
Joel Cairo is a sly, effeminate, and duplicitous criminal figure in Dashiell Hammett’s novel "The Maltese Falcon," known for his involvement in the hunt for the jewel-encrusted statuette.
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C.
Jason Hudson
Jason Hudson was the brother of singer and actress Jennifer Hudson, tragically murdered in a widely publicized 2008 family shooting in Chicago.
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D.
Julian Dennison
Julian Dennison is a New Zealand actor best known for his breakout role in "Hunt for the Wilderpeople" and his performance in "Deadpool 2."
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E.
Uriel Frisch
Uriel Frisch is a French physicist and mathematician renowned for his contributions to fluid dynamics and turbulence theory.
- 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: Uriel Jones Target entity description: Uriel Jones was an American drummer best known for his work on numerous classic Motown recordings as a key studio musician.
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A.
Julian Breece
Julian Breece is an American screenwriter and producer known for his work on socially conscious film and television projects, including co-writing the biographical drama "Rustin" (2023).
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B.
Joel Cairo
Joel Cairo is a sly, effeminate, and duplicitous criminal figure in Dashiell Hammett’s novel "The Maltese Falcon," known for his involvement in the hunt for the jewel-encrusted statuette.
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C.
Jason Hudson
Jason Hudson was the brother of singer and actress Jennifer Hudson, tragically murdered in a widely publicized 2008 family shooting in Chicago.
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D.
Julian Dennison
Julian Dennison is a New Zealand actor best known for his breakout role in "Hunt for the Wilderpeople" and his performance in "Deadpool 2."
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E.
Uriel Frisch
Uriel Frisch is a French physicist and mathematician renowned for his contributions to fluid dynamics and turbulence theory.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
drummer
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human ⓘ musician ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 2000s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1950s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Diana Ross & The Supremes
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Gladys Knight & the Pips NERFINISHED ⓘ Jr. Walker & the All Stars NERFINISHED ⓘ Marvin Gaye NERFINISHED ⓘ Motown Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Smokey Robinson & The Miracles NERFINISHED ⓘ Stevie Wonder NERFINISHED ⓘ The Funk Brothers NERFINISHED ⓘ The Temptations NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedIn | Detroit, Michigan, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | heart attack ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1934-06-13 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2009-03-24 ⓘ |
| employer | Motown Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicity | African-American ⓘ |
| featuredIn | documentary film “Standing in the Shadows of Motown” NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
R&B
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funk ⓘ pop music ⓘ soul music ⓘ |
| instrument |
drum kit
ⓘ
percussion ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being a key Motown studio drummer
ⓘ
contributions to the Motown sound ⓘ |
| memberOf | The Funk Brothers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableAward | Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (with The Funk Brothers) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Motown recordings
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
“Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” NERFINISHED ⓘ “Cloud Nine” NERFINISHED ⓘ “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” NERFINISHED ⓘ “I Second That Emotion” NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
drummer
ⓘ
musician ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Detroit, Michigan, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Dearborn, Michigan, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Motown ⓘ |
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: Uriel Jones Description of subject: Uriel Jones was an American drummer best known for his work on numerous classic Motown recordings as a key studio musician.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.