Bobby Timmons
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Bobby Timmons was an American jazz pianist and composer known for his soulful, gospel-infused hard bop style and influential tunes like "Moanin'" and "Dat Dere."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bobby Timmons canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10153839 — 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: Bobby Timmons Context triple: [Prestige Records, notableArtist, Bobby Timmons]
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A.
Joe Pass
Joe Pass was an American jazz guitarist renowned for his virtuosic solo guitar work, sophisticated harmonies, and influential recordings in bebop and mainstream jazz.
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B.
Donald Byrd
Donald Byrd was an influential American jazz trumpeter and bandleader known for his work in hard bop and later pioneering jazz-funk and fusion styles.
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C.
Sonny Stitt
Sonny Stitt was an American jazz saxophonist renowned for his virtuosic bebop and hard bop playing, often associated with the stylistic legacy of Charlie Parker.
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D.
Dexter Gordon
Dexter Gordon was a pioneering American jazz tenor saxophonist known for his influential bebop style, towering stage presence, and acclaimed recordings such as "Go!" and "Our Man in Paris."
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E.
Wardell Gray
Wardell Gray was an American jazz tenor saxophonist known for his virtuosic bebop playing and influential work with bands led by Benny Goodman and Count Basie in the 1940s and early 1950s.
- 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: Bobby Timmons Target entity description: Bobby Timmons was an American jazz pianist and composer known for his soulful, gospel-infused hard bop style and influential tunes like "Moanin'" and "Dat Dere."
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A.
Joe Pass
Joe Pass was an American jazz guitarist renowned for his virtuosic solo guitar work, sophisticated harmonies, and influential recordings in bebop and mainstream jazz.
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B.
Donald Byrd
Donald Byrd was an influential American jazz trumpeter and bandleader known for his work in hard bop and later pioneering jazz-funk and fusion styles.
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C.
Sonny Stitt
Sonny Stitt was an American jazz saxophonist renowned for his virtuosic bebop and hard bop playing, often associated with the stylistic legacy of Charlie Parker.
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D.
Dexter Gordon
Dexter Gordon was a pioneering American jazz tenor saxophonist known for his influential bebop style, towering stage presence, and acclaimed recordings such as "Go!" and "Our Man in Paris."
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E.
Wardell Gray
Wardell Gray was an American jazz tenor saxophonist known for his virtuosic bebop playing and influential work with bands led by Benny Goodman and Count Basie in the 1940s and early 1950s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
composer
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human ⓘ jazz pianist ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1950s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cannonball Adderley NERFINISHED ⓘ Cannonball Adderley Quintet NERFINISHED ⓘ The Jazz Messengers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | cirrhosis of the liver ⓘ |
| composed |
Dat Dere
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Moanin' NERFINISHED ⓘ This Here NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1935-12-19 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1974-03-01 ⓘ |
| ethnicity | African American ⓘ |
| fullName | Robert Henry Timmons NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
gospel-influenced jazz
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hard bop ⓘ jazz ⓘ soul jazz ⓘ |
| givenName | Robert ⓘ |
| influencedGenre | soul jazz ⓘ |
| instrument | piano ⓘ |
| knownFor |
gospel-influenced jazz compositions
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soulful piano playing ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cannonball Adderley Quintet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement |
hard bop
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soul jazz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nickname | Bobby Timmons NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAlbum |
Easy Does It
NERFINISHED
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Soul Time NERFINISHED ⓘ This Here Is Bobby Timmons NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableSongStandard |
Dat Dere
GENERATED
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Moanin' GENERATED ⓘ This Here GENERATED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Dat Dere
NERFINISHED
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Moanin' NERFINISHED ⓘ This Here NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
composer
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pianist ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Philadelphia
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surface form:
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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| placeOfDeath |
New York City
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surface form:
New York City, New York, United States
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| recordLabel |
Milestone Records
NERFINISHED
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Prestige Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Riverside Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| style | gospel-infused hard bop ⓘ |
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: Bobby Timmons Description of subject: Bobby Timmons was an American jazz pianist and composer known for his soulful, gospel-infused hard bop style and influential tunes like "Moanin'" and "Dat Dere."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.