Les Brown and His Orchestra
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Les Brown and His Orchestra was a popular American big band led by saxophonist and bandleader Les Brown, best known for its swing-era recordings and long association with singer Doris Day.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Les Brown and His Orchestra canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9044067 — 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: Les Brown and His Orchestra Context triple: [Les Brown and His Band of Renown, alsoKnownAs, Les Brown and His Orchestra]
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A.
Cootie Williams and His Orchestra
Cootie Williams and His Orchestra was a swing-era big band led by trumpeter Cootie Williams, known for its energetic jazz performances and recordings in the 1940s.
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B.
The Dorsey Brothers Orchestra
The Dorsey Brothers Orchestra was a prominent American jazz and dance band of the 1920s and 1930s led by trombonist Tommy Dorsey and his brother, saxophonist and clarinetist Jimmy Dorsey.
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C.
Jay McShann Orchestra
The Jay McShann Orchestra was a prominent Kansas City jazz big band led by pianist Jay McShann, noted for its blues-infused swing style and for launching the career of saxophonist Charlie Parker.
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D.
Leo Reisman and His Orchestra
Leo Reisman and His Orchestra was a popular American dance band of the 1920s–1930s known for its sophisticated arrangements and polished performances of contemporary popular music.
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E.
Chick Webb Orchestra
The Chick Webb Orchestra was a prominent American swing-era big band led by drummer Chick Webb, best known for launching the career of jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald.
- 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: Les Brown and His Orchestra Target entity description: Les Brown and His Orchestra was a popular American big band led by saxophonist and bandleader Les Brown, best known for its swing-era recordings and long association with singer Doris Day.
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A.
Cootie Williams and His Orchestra
Cootie Williams and His Orchestra was a swing-era big band led by trumpeter Cootie Williams, known for its energetic jazz performances and recordings in the 1940s.
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B.
The Dorsey Brothers Orchestra
The Dorsey Brothers Orchestra was a prominent American jazz and dance band of the 1920s and 1930s led by trombonist Tommy Dorsey and his brother, saxophonist and clarinetist Jimmy Dorsey.
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C.
Jay McShann Orchestra
The Jay McShann Orchestra was a prominent Kansas City jazz big band led by pianist Jay McShann, noted for its blues-infused swing style and for launching the career of saxophonist Charlie Parker.
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D.
Leo Reisman and His Orchestra
Leo Reisman and His Orchestra was a popular American dance band of the 1920s–1930s known for its sophisticated arrangements and polished performances of contemporary popular music.
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E.
Chick Webb Orchestra
The Chick Webb Orchestra was a prominent American swing-era big band led by drummer Chick Webb, best known for launching the career of jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | big band ⓘ |
| activeDuring | swing era ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Les Brown and His Band of Renown NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedAct | Doris Day NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedIn |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| collaboratedWith | Doris Day NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| genre |
big band jazz
ⓘ
swing ⓘ |
| hasBandleader | Les Brown NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMember | Les Brown NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableMember | Doris Day NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableRecording |
Bizet Has His Day
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Day by Day NERFINISHED ⓘ Day by Day (with Doris Day) NERFINISHED ⓘ I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm NERFINISHED ⓘ I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm (with Doris Day) NERFINISHED ⓘ I've Got the Sun in the Morning NERFINISHED ⓘ I've Got the World on a String NERFINISHED ⓘ Just One of Those Things NERFINISHED ⓘ Leap Frog NERFINISHED ⓘ Mexican Hat Dance NERFINISHED ⓘ My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time NERFINISHED ⓘ My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time (with Doris Day) NERFINISHED ⓘ Sentimental Journey NERFINISHED ⓘ Sentimental Journey (with Doris Day) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Whole World Is Singing My Song NERFINISHED ⓘ The Whole World Is Singing My Song (with Doris Day) NERFINISHED ⓘ Till the End of Time NERFINISHED ⓘ Till the End of Time (with Doris Day) NERFINISHED ⓘ You Won't Be Satisfied (Until You Break My Heart) NERFINISHED ⓘ You Won't Be Satisfied (Until You Break My Heart) (with Doris Day) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableSinger | Doris Day NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| instrumentation |
rhythm section
ⓘ
saxophones ⓘ trombones ⓘ trumpets ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| leader | Les Brown NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
association with Doris Day
ⓘ
swing-era recordings ⓘ touring as a dance band in the United States ⓘ |
| occupation | dance band ⓘ |
| partOf | American swing movement ⓘ |
| performerOf | Sentimental Journey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| style |
dance music
ⓘ
popular music ⓘ |
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: Les Brown and His Orchestra Description of subject: Les Brown and His Orchestra was a popular American big band led by saxophonist and bandleader Les Brown, best known for its swing-era recordings and long association with singer Doris Day.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.