Tina Brooks
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Tina Brooks was an American hard bop tenor saxophonist and composer known for his soulful tone and influential Blue Note recordings in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tina Brooks canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9232909 — 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: Tina Brooks Context triple: [Brooks, hasNotableBearer, Tina Brooks]
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A.
Mary Lou Williams
Mary Lou Williams was an influential American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger whose career spanned swing, bebop, and beyond, making her one of the most important women in jazz history.
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B.
Carmen McRae
Carmen McRae was an influential American jazz singer and pianist renowned for her sophisticated phrasing, emotional depth, and nuanced interpretations of the Great American Songbook.
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C.
Keely Smith
Keely Smith was an American jazz and pop singer best known for her work with Louis Prima in the 1950s and her cool, understated vocal style.
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D.
Dolores Hope
Dolores Hope was an American singer, philanthropist, and the longtime wife of entertainer Bob Hope, known for her charitable work and support of U.S. troops.
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E.
Mildred Bailey
Mildred Bailey was an influential American jazz singer of the 1930s and 1940s, known for her warm, nuanced vocal style and pioneering role as one of the first female big band vocalists.
- 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: Tina Brooks Target entity description: Tina Brooks was an American hard bop tenor saxophonist and composer known for his soulful tone and influential Blue Note recordings in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
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A.
Mary Lou Williams
Mary Lou Williams was an influential American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger whose career spanned swing, bebop, and beyond, making her one of the most important women in jazz history.
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B.
Carmen McRae
Carmen McRae was an influential American jazz singer and pianist renowned for her sophisticated phrasing, emotional depth, and nuanced interpretations of the Great American Songbook.
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C.
Keely Smith
Keely Smith was an American jazz and pop singer best known for her work with Louis Prima in the 1950s and her cool, understated vocal style.
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D.
Dolores Hope
Dolores Hope was an American singer, philanthropist, and the longtime wife of entertainer Bob Hope, known for her charitable work and support of U.S. troops.
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E.
Mildred Bailey
Mildred Bailey was an influential American jazz singer of the 1930s and 1940s, known for her warm, nuanced vocal style and pioneering role as one of the first female big band vocalists.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
composer
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human ⓘ jazz musician ⓘ tenor saxophonist ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1960s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1950s ⓘ |
| associatedAct | Blue Note Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | New York City, New York, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
Art Blakey
NERFINISHED
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Freddie Hubbard NERFINISHED ⓘ Jackie McLean NERFINISHED ⓘ Kenny Burrell NERFINISHED ⓘ Sonny Clark NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1932-06-07 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1974-08-13 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Black Americans
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surface form:
African American
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| fullName | Harold Floyd Brooks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
hard bop
ⓘ
jazz ⓘ |
| givenName | Harold ⓘ |
| influencedGenre | hard bop tenor saxophone playing ⓘ |
| instrument | tenor saxophone ⓘ |
| movement | hard bop NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nickname | Tina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableRecordingPeriod |
early 1960s
GENERATED
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late 1950s GENERATED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Back to the Tracks
NERFINISHED
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Good Old Soul NERFINISHED ⓘ Minor Move NERFINISHED ⓘ Open Sesame NERFINISHED ⓘ Street Singer NERFINISHED ⓘ The Waiting Game NERFINISHED ⓘ Theme for Doris NERFINISHED ⓘ True Blue NERFINISHED ⓘ Up Tight's Creek NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
composer
ⓘ
musician ⓘ saxophonist ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Fayetteville, North Carolina, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
New York City
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surface form:
New York City, New York, United States
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| recordLabel | Blue Note Records ⓘ |
| residence |
New York City
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surface form:
New York City, New York, United States
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| style | soulful tone ⓘ |
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: Tina Brooks Description of subject: Tina Brooks was an American hard bop tenor saxophonist and composer known for his soulful tone and influential Blue Note recordings in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.