Peyroux
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Peyroux is the surname of Madeleine Peyroux, an American jazz singer and songwriter known for her Billie Holiday–influenced vocal style.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Peyroux canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9368267 — 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: Peyroux Context triple: [Madeleine Peyroux, familyName, Peyroux]
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A.
Mehldau
Mehldau is the surname of Brad Mehldau, an influential American jazz pianist and composer known for his lyrical improvisation and genre-blending style.
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B.
Bobby Hackett
Bobby Hackett was an American jazz trumpeter and cornetist renowned for his lyrical playing style and collaborations with big band leaders like Glenn Miller and Benny Goodman.
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C.
Illinois Jacquet
Illinois Jacquet was an American jazz tenor saxophonist renowned for his powerful, blues-infused solos and pioneering role in the development of rhythm and blues and early rock and roll saxophone styles.
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D.
Paul Gonsalves
Paul Gonsalves was an American jazz tenor saxophonist best known for his long, electrifying solo with Duke Ellington at the 1956 Newport Jazz Festival, which helped revitalize Ellington’s career.
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E.
Charlie Byrd
Charlie Byrd was an American jazz guitarist best known for popularizing bossa nova in the United States, particularly through his work on the landmark album "Jazz Samba" with Stan Getz.
- 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: Peyroux Target entity description: Peyroux is the surname of Madeleine Peyroux, an American jazz singer and songwriter known for her Billie Holiday–influenced vocal style.
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A.
Mehldau
Mehldau is the surname of Brad Mehldau, an influential American jazz pianist and composer known for his lyrical improvisation and genre-blending style.
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B.
Bobby Hackett
Bobby Hackett was an American jazz trumpeter and cornetist renowned for his lyrical playing style and collaborations with big band leaders like Glenn Miller and Benny Goodman.
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C.
Illinois Jacquet
Illinois Jacquet was an American jazz tenor saxophonist renowned for his powerful, blues-infused solos and pioneering role in the development of rhythm and blues and early rock and roll saxophone styles.
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D.
Paul Gonsalves
Paul Gonsalves was an American jazz tenor saxophonist best known for his long, electrifying solo with Duke Ellington at the 1956 Newport Jazz Festival, which helped revitalize Ellington’s career.
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E.
Charlie Byrd
Charlie Byrd was an American jazz guitarist best known for popularizing bossa nova in the United States, particularly through his work on the landmark album "Jazz Samba" with Stan Getz.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (9)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | surname ⓘ |
| category | French-language surnames ⓘ |
| hasGenderForm | unisex surname ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Madeleine Peyroux ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | French ⓘ |
| usedBy | Madeleine Peyroux ⓘ |
| usedInCountry |
France
ⓘ
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| writtenForm | Peyroux ⓘ |
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: Peyroux Description of subject: Peyroux is the surname of Madeleine Peyroux, an American jazz singer and songwriter known for her Billie Holiday–influenced vocal style.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.