Sonny Criss
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Sonny Criss was an American jazz alto saxophonist known for his soulful, blues-inflected hard bop style and influential recordings from the 1940s through the 1970s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sonny Criss canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10153852 — 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: Sonny Criss Context triple: [Prestige Records, notableArtist, Sonny Criss]
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A.
Sonny Burch
Sonny Burch is a black-market tech dealer and secondary antagonist in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, notably appearing in the film "Ant-Man and the Wasp."
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B.
Sonny Turner
Sonny Turner was an American R&B singer best known as the lead vocalist of The Platters during their successful 1960s era, helping to revive and sustain the group’s popularity.
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C.
Sonny Fortune
Sonny Fortune was an American jazz saxophonist and flutist known for his work in post-bop and fusion, including collaborations with Miles Davis and McCoy Tyner.
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D.
Sonny Payne
Sonny Payne was an American jazz drummer best known for his dynamic, high-energy work with the Count Basie Orchestra during the 1950s and 1960s.
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E.
Marvin Scandrick
Marvin Scandrick, better known as Slim, is an American R&B singer and member of the group 112, recognized for his distinctive falsetto vocals and contributions to early-2000s R&B hits.
- 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: Sonny Criss Target entity description: Sonny Criss was an American jazz alto saxophonist known for his soulful, blues-inflected hard bop style and influential recordings from the 1940s through the 1970s.
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A.
Sonny Burch
Sonny Burch is a black-market tech dealer and secondary antagonist in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, notably appearing in the film "Ant-Man and the Wasp."
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B.
Sonny Turner
Sonny Turner was an American R&B singer best known as the lead vocalist of The Platters during their successful 1960s era, helping to revive and sustain the group’s popularity.
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C.
Sonny Fortune
Sonny Fortune was an American jazz saxophonist and flutist known for his work in post-bop and fusion, including collaborations with Miles Davis and McCoy Tyner.
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D.
Sonny Payne
Sonny Payne was an American jazz drummer best known for his dynamic, high-energy work with the Count Basie Orchestra during the 1950s and 1960s.
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E.
Marvin Scandrick
Marvin Scandrick, better known as Slim, is an American R&B singer and member of the group 112, recognized for his distinctive falsetto vocals and contributions to early-2000s R&B hits.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
alto saxophonist
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human ⓘ jazz musician ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1970s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1940s ⓘ |
| associatedWith | West Coast jazz scene ⓘ |
| birthName | William Criss Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Inglewood Park Cemetery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | suicide ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
Charlie Parker
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Howard McGhee NERFINISHED ⓘ Paul Chambers NERFINISHED ⓘ Sonny Clark NERFINISHED ⓘ Tal Farlow NERFINISHED ⓘ Wynton Kelly NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1927-10-23 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1977-11-19 ⓘ |
| ethnicity | African-American ⓘ |
| familyName | Criss NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
bebop
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hard bop ⓘ jazz ⓘ soul jazz ⓘ |
| givenName | William ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Charlie Parker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| instrument | alto saxophone ⓘ |
| movedTo | Los Angeles, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Sonny Criss NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | soulful, blues-inflected alto saxophone style ⓘ |
| notablePeriod | 1940s–1970s ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Go Man!
NERFINISHED
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Jazz U.S.A. NERFINISHED ⓘ Portrait of Sonny Criss NERFINISHED ⓘ Saturday Morning NERFINISHED ⓘ Sonny Criss Plays Cole Porter NERFINISHED ⓘ This Is Criss! NERFINISHED ⓘ Up, Up and Away NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
bandleader
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musician ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Memphis, Tennessee, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Los Angeles, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Imperial Records
NERFINISHED
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Muse Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Prestige Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Xanadu Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| style |
blues-inflected phrasing
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hard bop improvisation ⓘ |
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: Sonny Criss Description of subject: Sonny Criss was an American jazz alto saxophonist known for his soulful, blues-inflected hard bop style and influential recordings from the 1940s through the 1970s.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
"I'm Old Fashioned"