Ulysses Owens Jr.
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Ulysses Owens Jr. is an acclaimed American jazz drummer, composer, and bandleader known for his dynamic performances and collaborations with leading contemporary jazz artists.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ulysses Owens Jr. canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8484424 — 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: Ulysses Owens Jr. Context triple: [Christian McBride Trio, notableMember, Ulysses Owens Jr.]
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A.
Omar Cummings
Omar Cummings is a Jamaican professional footballer and forward known for his goal-scoring stints in Major League Soccer and the North American Soccer League.
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B.
Carvin Haggins
Carvin Haggins is an American songwriter and record producer best known for his work in R&B and neo-soul, including collaborations with artists like Musiq Soulchild and Jill Scott.
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C.
Clifton Powell
Clifton Powell is an American character actor known for his prolific work in film and television, often portraying intense, streetwise, or authoritative supporting roles.
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D.
Malick Bowens
Malick Bowens was a Kenyan-born actor best known for his supporting role in the Academy Award–winning film "Out of Africa."
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E.
Antonio Dixon
Antonio Dixon is an American record producer and songwriter known for his work in contemporary R&B and pop music with prominent artists.
- 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: Ulysses Owens Jr. Target entity description: Ulysses Owens Jr. is an acclaimed American jazz drummer, composer, and bandleader known for his dynamic performances and collaborations with leading contemporary jazz artists.
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A.
Omar Cummings
Omar Cummings is a Jamaican professional footballer and forward known for his goal-scoring stints in Major League Soccer and the North American Soccer League.
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B.
Carvin Haggins
Carvin Haggins is an American songwriter and record producer best known for his work in R&B and neo-soul, including collaborations with artists like Musiq Soulchild and Jill Scott.
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C.
Clifton Powell
Clifton Powell is an American character actor known for his prolific work in film and television, often portraying intense, streetwise, or authoritative supporting roles.
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D.
Malick Bowens
Malick Bowens was a Kenyan-born actor best known for his supporting role in the Academy Award–winning film "Out of Africa."
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E.
Antonio Dixon
Antonio Dixon is an American record producer and songwriter known for his work in contemporary R&B and pop music with prominent artists.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bandleader
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composer ⓘ educator ⓘ human ⓘ jazz drummer ⓘ recording artist ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 2000s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Benny Golson
NERFINISHED
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Christian McBride NERFINISHED ⓘ Christian McBride Big Band NERFINISHED ⓘ Christian McBride Trio NERFINISHED ⓘ Claudia Acuña NERFINISHED ⓘ Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra NERFINISHED ⓘ Joey Alexander NERFINISHED ⓘ Kurt Elling NERFINISHED ⓘ Mulgrew Miller NERFINISHED ⓘ Mulgrew Miller Trio NERFINISHED ⓘ Nicholas Payton NERFINISHED ⓘ René Marie NERFINISHED ⓘ Russell Malone NERFINISHED ⓘ Steve Wilson NERFINISHED ⓘ Ted Nash NERFINISHED ⓘ Wynton Marsalis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| award |
Grammy Award (as a sideman with Christian McBride)
NERFINISHED
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Grammy Award (as a sideman with Kurt Elling) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| education | Juilliard School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
community arts outreach
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music education ⓘ |
| founded | Don’t Miss A Beat, Inc. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | jazz ⓘ |
| instrument | drums ⓘ |
| knownFor |
dynamic drumming style
ⓘ
work with leading contemporary jazz artists ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| name | Ulysses Owens Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Love Notes
NERFINISHED
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Onward and Upward NERFINISHED ⓘ Songs of Freedom NERFINISHED ⓘ Soul Conversations NERFINISHED ⓘ Unanimous ⓘ |
| occupation |
bandleader
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composer ⓘ drummer ⓘ educator ⓘ faculty member at Juilliard School ⓘ |
| roleInBand |
leader of UOJ (Ulysses Owens Jr.) Project
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leader of Ulysses Owens Jr. and Generation Y ⓘ |
| teaches |
ensemble performance
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jazz drums ⓘ |
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: Ulysses Owens Jr. Description of subject: Ulysses Owens Jr. is an acclaimed American jazz drummer, composer, and bandleader known for his dynamic performances and collaborations with leading contemporary jazz artists.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.