James Genus
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James Genus is an American jazz bassist and session musician known for his work with prominent artists and as a longtime member of the Saturday Night Live Band.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James Genus canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8842805 — 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: James Genus Context triple: [Saturday Night Live Band, hasMember, James Genus]
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A.
Geno
Geno is the widely used nickname of Hall of Fame University of Connecticut women's basketball coach Geno Auriemma.
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B.
Alexander Gann
Alexander Gann is a molecular biologist and science editor known for his work on genetics and for co-authoring influential textbooks in molecular biology.
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C.
Jonathan Apphus
Jonathan Apphus was a leader of the Hasmonean dynasty who served as high priest and ruler of Judea during the 2nd century BCE, continuing the Maccabean struggle for Jewish autonomy against Seleucid rule.
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D.
Jeffrey
Jeffrey is a masculine given name of Germanic origin, commonly used in English-speaking countries.
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E.
David Rocksavage
David Rocksavage, also known as the 7th Marquess of Cholmondeley, is a British aristocrat and filmmaker who directed the screen adaptation of Truman Capote’s novel "Other Voices, Other Rooms."
- 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: James Genus Target entity description: James Genus is an American jazz bassist and session musician known for his work with prominent artists and as a longtime member of the Saturday Night Live Band.
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A.
Geno
Geno is the widely used nickname of Hall of Fame University of Connecticut women's basketball coach Geno Auriemma.
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B.
Alexander Gann
Alexander Gann is a molecular biologist and science editor known for his work on genetics and for co-authoring influential textbooks in molecular biology.
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C.
Jonathan Apphus
Jonathan Apphus was a leader of the Hasmonean dynasty who served as high priest and ruler of Judea during the 2nd century BCE, continuing the Maccabean struggle for Jewish autonomy against Seleucid rule.
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D.
Jeffrey
Jeffrey is a masculine given name of Germanic origin, commonly used in English-speaking countries.
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E.
David Rocksavage
David Rocksavage, also known as the 7th Marquess of Cholmondeley, is a British aristocrat and filmmaker who directed the screen adaptation of Truman Capote’s novel "Other Voices, Other Rooms."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bassist
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human ⓘ jazz musician ⓘ session musician ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1980s ⓘ |
| basedIn | New York City ⓘ |
| birthName | James Genus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1966-01-20 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Virginia Commonwealth University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
fusion
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jazz ⓘ |
| hasWorkedWith |
Bill Evans
NERFINISHED
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Bob James NERFINISHED ⓘ Branford Marsalis NERFINISHED ⓘ Chick Corea NERFINISHED ⓘ Dave Douglas NERFINISHED ⓘ Herbie Hancock NERFINISHED ⓘ Horace Silver NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Brecker NERFINISHED ⓘ Out of the Blue NERFINISHED ⓘ Saturday Night Live Band NERFINISHED ⓘ Steps Ahead NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| instrument |
bass guitar
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double bass ⓘ |
| memberOf | Saturday Night Live Band NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
membership in the Saturday Night Live Band
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work as a session musician ⓘ |
| notableInstrument |
acoustic bass
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electric bass ⓘ |
| notableWork | Saturday Night Live Band NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
bassist
ⓘ
jazz musician ⓘ music educator ⓘ session musician ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Hampton, Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordedWith |
Branford Marsalis
NERFINISHED
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Chick Corea NERFINISHED ⓘ Dave Douglas NERFINISHED ⓘ Herbie Hancock NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Brecker NERFINISHED ⓘ Out of the Blue NERFINISHED ⓘ Steps Ahead NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
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: James Genus Description of subject: James Genus is an American jazz bassist and session musician known for his work with prominent artists and as a longtime member of the Saturday Night Live Band.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.