John Francis Pastorius III
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John Francis Pastorius III, better known as Jaco Pastorius, was a groundbreaking American jazz bassist renowned for revolutionizing the electric bass with his virtuosic fretless playing and work with Weather Report.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Francis Pastorius III canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9377816 — 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: John Francis Pastorius III Context triple: [Jaco Pastorius, birthName, John Francis Pastorius III]
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A.
Thomas Buberl
Thomas Buberl is a German business executive known for leading the global insurance company AXA and driving its strategic transformation.
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B.
Joseph Weishaar
Joseph Weishaar is an American architect and designer best known for winning the competition to create the National World War I Memorial in Washington, D.C.
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C.
Alfred Gunzenhauser
Alfred Gunzenhauser was a German art collector whose extensive collection of modern art became the foundation of the Museum Gunzenhauser in Chemnitz.
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D.
Joseph Eybler
Joseph Eybler was an Austrian composer and contemporary of Mozart, known for his sacred music and for assisting in the completion of Mozart’s unfinished works.
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E.
Frederick Sigrist
Frederick Sigrist was a British aviation engineer and industrialist best known for co-founding and helping develop Hawker Aircraft into a major military aircraft manufacturer.
- 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: John Francis Pastorius III Target entity description: John Francis Pastorius III, better known as Jaco Pastorius, was a groundbreaking American jazz bassist renowned for revolutionizing the electric bass with his virtuosic fretless playing and work with Weather Report.
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A.
Thomas Buberl
Thomas Buberl is a German business executive known for leading the global insurance company AXA and driving its strategic transformation.
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B.
Joseph Weishaar
Joseph Weishaar is an American architect and designer best known for winning the competition to create the National World War I Memorial in Washington, D.C.
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C.
Alfred Gunzenhauser
Alfred Gunzenhauser was a German art collector whose extensive collection of modern art became the foundation of the Museum Gunzenhauser in Chemnitz.
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D.
Joseph Eybler
Joseph Eybler was an Austrian composer and contemporary of Mozart, known for his sacred music and for assisting in the completion of Mozart’s unfinished works.
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E.
Frederick Sigrist
Frederick Sigrist was a British aviation engineer and industrialist best known for co-founding and helping develop Hawker Aircraft into a major military aircraft manufacturer.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (74)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American
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bandleader ⓘ composer ⓘ human ⓘ jazz bassist ⓘ musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1987 ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1960s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Al Di Meola
NERFINISHED
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Blood, Sweat & Tears NERFINISHED ⓘ Herbie Hancock NERFINISHED ⓘ Ian Hunter NERFINISHED ⓘ Joni Mitchell NERFINISHED ⓘ Mike Stern NERFINISHED ⓘ Pat Metheny NERFINISHED ⓘ Weather Report NERFINISHED ⓘ Weather Report rhythm section with Peter Erskine ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1951-12-01 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Norristown, Pennsylvania, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | injuries from an assault ⓘ |
| child |
Felix Pastorius
NERFINISHED
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John Pastorius IV NERFINISHED ⓘ Mary Pastorius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1987-09-21 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| education | Deerfield Beach High School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin |
Finnish-American
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German-American ⓘ |
| familyName | Pastorius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Jack Pastorius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
funk
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jazz ⓘ jazz fusion ⓘ |
| givenName | John NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hallOfFameInduction | DownBeat Jazz Hall of Fame NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced |
John Patitucci
NERFINISHED
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Marcus Miller NERFINISHED ⓘ Tal Wilkenfeld NERFINISHED ⓘ Victor Wooten NERFINISHED ⓘ many modern electric bassists ⓘ |
| instrument |
double bass
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drums ⓘ electric bass guitar ⓘ fretless bass guitar ⓘ |
| knownFor |
harmonic and chordal bass playing
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revolutionizing the electric bass guitar ⓘ virtuosic fretless bass technique ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Weather Report
NERFINISHED
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Word of Mouth (band) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mother | Stephanie Pastorius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | John Francis Pastorius III NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Continuum
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Donna Lee (bass arrangement) NERFINISHED ⓘ Heavy Weather (album with Weather Report) NERFINISHED ⓘ Invitation (1983 album) NERFINISHED ⓘ Jaco Pastorius (1976 album) NERFINISHED ⓘ Portrait of Tracy NERFINISHED ⓘ Teen Town NERFINISHED ⓘ Word of Mouth (1981 album) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
arranger
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bassist ⓘ composer ⓘ record producer ⓘ |
| placeOfBurial | Our Lady Queen of Heaven Cemetery, North Lauderdale, Florida, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedWith | Weather Report from 1976 to 1981 ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| residence | Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sibling | Gregory Pastorius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| signatureInstrument | Fender Jazz Bass (fretless, modified) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse |
Ingrid Pastorius (second wife)
NERFINISHED
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Tracy Lee (first wife) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stageName | Jaco Pastorius 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: John Francis Pastorius III Description of subject: John Francis Pastorius III, better known as Jaco Pastorius, was a groundbreaking American jazz bassist renowned for revolutionizing the electric bass with his virtuosic fretless playing and work with Weather Report.
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