Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson
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Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson is an American drummer, DJ, producer, author, and filmmaker best known as the bandleader of The Roots and musical director for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Questlove | 95 |
| Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson canonical | 12 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T523825 — 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.
Target entity: Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson Context triple: [The Roots, founder, Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson]
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Narada Michael Walden
Narada Michael Walden is an American drummer, songwriter, and Grammy-winning record producer known for crafting major pop and R&B hits for artists such as Whitney Houston and Aretha Franklin.
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Don Maynard
Don Maynard was a Hall of Fame American football wide receiver best known as Joe Namath’s primary deep threat and a key offensive star for the New York Jets during the 1960s.
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Jason Moran
Jason Moran is an acclaimed American jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader known for his innovative approach to contemporary jazz and frequent collaborations across music and film.
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Raphael Saadiq
Raphael Saadiq is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and acclaimed R&B/neo-soul producer known for his work both as a solo artist and as a member of Tony! Toni! Toné!.
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E.
Wynton Marsalis
Wynton Marsalis is an American trumpeter, composer, and bandleader renowned for his virtuosity in both jazz and classical music and for serving as artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson Target entity description: Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson is an American drummer, DJ, producer, author, and filmmaker best known as the bandleader of The Roots and musical director for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
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A.
Narada Michael Walden
Narada Michael Walden is an American drummer, songwriter, and Grammy-winning record producer known for crafting major pop and R&B hits for artists such as Whitney Houston and Aretha Franklin.
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B.
Don Maynard
Don Maynard was a Hall of Fame American football wide receiver best known as Joe Namath’s primary deep threat and a key offensive star for the New York Jets during the 1960s.
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C.
Jason Moran
Jason Moran is an acclaimed American jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader known for his innovative approach to contemporary jazz and frequent collaborations across music and film.
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D.
Raphael Saadiq
Raphael Saadiq is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and acclaimed R&B/neo-soul producer known for his work both as a solo artist and as a member of Tony! Toni! Toné!.
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Wynton Marsalis
Wynton Marsalis is an American trumpeter, composer, and bandleader renowned for his virtuosity in both jazz and classical music and for serving as artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
DJ
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author ⓘ bandleader ⓘ drummer ⓘ filmmaker ⓘ human ⓘ music director ⓘ record producer ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature
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Grammy Award ⓘ Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video ⓘ
surface form:
Grammy Award for Best Music Film
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| basedIn | New York City ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1971-01-20 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Philadelphia
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surface form:
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| coFounderOf | The Roots ⓘ |
| directed | Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Philadelphia High School for the Creative and Performing Arts ⓘ |
| employer |
The Tonight Show
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surface form:
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
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| ethnicGroup | African American ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
hip hop
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neo soul ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | http://questlove.com/ ⓘ |
| instrument |
drums
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percussion ⓘ turntables ⓘ |
| memberOf | The Roots ⓘ |
| name |
Ahmir Thompson
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surface form:
Ahmir Khalib Thompson
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| notableWork |
Creative Quest
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Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove ⓘ Music Is History ⓘ Soul Train ⓘ
surface form:
Soul Train: The Music, Dance, and Style of a Generation
bandleader of The Roots ⓘ co-production of D'Angelo's album Voodoo ⓘ musical director for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon ⓘ work with Common ⓘ work with Erykah Badu ⓘ |
| occupation |
DJ
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author ⓘ drummer ⓘ filmmaker ⓘ music director ⓘ music journalist ⓘ record producer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| positionHeld | bandleader of The Roots ⓘ |
| stageName |
Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Questlove
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| twitterUsername | questlove ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson Description of subject: Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson is an American drummer, DJ, producer, author, and filmmaker best known as the bandleader of The Roots and musical director for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
Referenced by (107)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.