Andrew Cyrille
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Andrew Cyrille is an American jazz drummer renowned for his innovative work in avant-garde and free jazz, particularly through his long collaboration with pianist Cecil Taylor.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Andrew Cyrille canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10182204 — 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: Andrew Cyrille Context triple: [Cecil Taylor, associatedAct, Andrew Cyrille]
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A.
Charles McPherson
Charles McPherson is an American jazz alto saxophonist known for his bebop-rooted style and long association with bassist and composer Charles Mingus.
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B.
Charles Tolliver
Charles Tolliver is an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and bandleader known for his work in the post-bop and avant-garde jazz scenes, including co-founding the influential Strata-East record label.
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C.
Cecil Taylor
Cecil Taylor was an American pianist and poet renowned as a pioneering figure in avant-garde and free jazz, celebrated for his highly percussive, complex, and improvisational playing style.
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D.
Jimmy Garrison
Jimmy Garrison was an American jazz double bassist best known for his pivotal role in the classic John Coltrane Quartet during the 1960s.
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E.
Greg Osby
Greg Osby is an American alto saxophonist, composer, and bandleader known for his innovative contributions to contemporary jazz and his influential work on the Blue Note label.
- 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: Andrew Cyrille Target entity description: Andrew Cyrille is an American jazz drummer renowned for his innovative work in avant-garde and free jazz, particularly through his long collaboration with pianist Cecil Taylor.
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A.
Charles McPherson
Charles McPherson is an American jazz alto saxophonist known for his bebop-rooted style and long association with bassist and composer Charles Mingus.
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B.
Charles Tolliver
Charles Tolliver is an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and bandleader known for his work in the post-bop and avant-garde jazz scenes, including co-founding the influential Strata-East record label.
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C.
Cecil Taylor
Cecil Taylor was an American pianist and poet renowned as a pioneering figure in avant-garde and free jazz, celebrated for his highly percussive, complex, and improvisational playing style.
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D.
Jimmy Garrison
Jimmy Garrison was an American jazz double bassist best known for his pivotal role in the classic John Coltrane Quartet during the 1960s.
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E.
Greg Osby
Greg Osby is an American alto saxophonist, composer, and bandleader known for his innovative contributions to contemporary jazz and his influential work on the Blue Note label.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American jazz musician
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human ⓘ jazz drummer ⓘ musician ⓘ |
| activity |
performing in small jazz ensembles
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recording leader albums for ECM Records ⓘ teaching and mentoring younger musicians ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Anthony Braxton
NERFINISHED
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Archie Shepp NERFINISHED ⓘ Ben Street NERFINISHED ⓘ Bill Frisell NERFINISHED ⓘ Cecil Taylor NERFINISHED ⓘ David S. Ware NERFINISHED ⓘ Henry Grimes NERFINISHED ⓘ Marion Brown NERFINISHED ⓘ Oliver Lake NERFINISHED ⓘ Peter Brötzmann NERFINISHED ⓘ Reggie Workman NERFINISHED ⓘ Sunny Murray NERFINISHED ⓘ Wadada Leo Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Cyrille NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
avant-garde jazz
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free jazz ⓘ jazz ⓘ |
| givenName | Andrew ⓘ |
| instrument |
drum kit
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percussion ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| movement |
avant-garde jazz
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free jazz ⓘ |
| name | Andrew Cyrille NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
innovative drumming techniques
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long-term collaboration with Cecil Taylor ⓘ |
| notableWork |
album "Lebroba"
NERFINISHED
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album "Nuba" ⓘ album "Special People" NERFINISHED ⓘ album "The Declaration of Musical Independence" NERFINISHED ⓘ album "The Navigator" NERFINISHED ⓘ collaborations with Cecil Taylor ⓘ |
| occupation |
composer
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drummer ⓘ |
| workLocation | New York City ⓘ |
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: Andrew Cyrille Description of subject: Andrew Cyrille is an American jazz drummer renowned for his innovative work in avant-garde and free jazz, particularly through his long collaboration with pianist Cecil Taylor.
Referenced by (3)
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