Alwin Lopez Jarreau
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Alwin Lopez Jarreau, better known as Al Jarreau, was an American jazz and R&B singer celebrated for his versatile vocal style and multiple Grammy Awards across different musical categories.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Al Jarreau | 2 |
| Alwin Lopez Jarreau canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8484365 — 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: Alwin Lopez Jarreau Context triple: [Al Jarreau, birthName, Alwin Lopez Jarreau]
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A.
Victor Alvarez
Victor Alvarez is a fictional character known primarily as the ex-husband of Penelope Alvarez in the television series "One Day at a Time."
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B.
Valery Ortiz
Valery Ortiz is an American actress and television personality best known for her role on the VH1 drama series "Hit the Floor."
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C.
Tuffy Rhodes
Tuffy Rhodes is an American former professional baseball outfielder best known for his prolific power-hitting career in Nippon Professional Baseball, where he tied the single-season home run record.
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D.
Albert Baez
Albert Baez was a Mexican-American physicist and optics pioneer who made significant contributions to X-ray microscopy and is also known as the father of folk singer Joan Baez.
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E.
Plácido Polanco
Plácido Polanco is a former Major League Baseball infielder known for his exceptional contact hitting, defensive versatility, and multiple Gold Glove Awards.
- 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: Alwin Lopez Jarreau Target entity description: Alwin Lopez Jarreau, better known as Al Jarreau, was an American jazz and R&B singer celebrated for his versatile vocal style and multiple Grammy Awards across different musical categories.
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A.
Victor Alvarez
Victor Alvarez is a fictional character known primarily as the ex-husband of Penelope Alvarez in the television series "One Day at a Time."
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B.
Valery Ortiz
Valery Ortiz is an American actress and television personality best known for her role on the VH1 drama series "Hit the Floor."
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C.
Tuffy Rhodes
Tuffy Rhodes is an American former professional baseball outfielder best known for his prolific power-hitting career in Nippon Professional Baseball, where he tied the single-season home run record.
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D.
Albert Baez
Albert Baez was a Mexican-American physicist and optics pioneer who made significant contributions to X-ray microscopy and is also known as the father of folk singer Joan Baez.
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E.
Plácido Polanco
Plácido Polanco is a former Major League Baseball infielder known for his exceptional contact hitting, defensive versatility, and multiple Gold Glove Awards.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Grammy Award winner
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human ⓘ jazz singer ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 2017 ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1960s ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Performance
NERFINISHED
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Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance NERFINISHED ⓘ Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance NERFINISHED ⓘ Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | respiratory failure ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1940-03-12 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2017-02-12 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Ripon College
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
University of Iowa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Jarreau NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
R&B
ⓘ
contemporary jazz ⓘ jazz ⓘ pop ⓘ soul ⓘ |
| givenName | Alwin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
scat singing
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versatile vocal style ⓘ wide vocal range ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | won Grammy Awards in jazz, pop, and R&B categories ⓘ |
| notableWork |
album "Breakin' Away"
NERFINISHED
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album "Glow" NERFINISHED ⓘ album "We Got By" NERFINISHED ⓘ song "We're in This Love Together" NERFINISHED ⓘ theme song for TV series "Moonlighting" ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 1 ⓘ |
| occupation |
singer
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songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Los Angeles, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Reprise Records
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Warner Bros. Records ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse |
Phyllis Hall
NERFINISHED
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Susan Player NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stageName | Al Jarreau 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: Alwin Lopez Jarreau Description of subject: Alwin Lopez Jarreau, better known as Al Jarreau, was an American jazz and R&B singer celebrated for his versatile vocal style and multiple Grammy Awards across different musical categories.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Al Jarreau
this entity surface form:
Al Jarreau