Clifford Jordan
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Clifford Jordan was an American jazz tenor saxophonist known for his robust tone, hard bop style, and work as both a bandleader and sideman from the 1950s onward.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Clifford Jordan canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10283768 — 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: Clifford Jordan Context triple: [Alan Dawson, associatedWith, Clifford Jordan]
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A.
Clifton Brown
Clifton Brown is a notable individual distinguished by the given name Clifton, recognized among prominent bearers of that name.
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B.
Stevland Hardaway Judkins
Stevland Hardaway Judkins is the birth name of Stevie Wonder, the legendary American singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer.
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C.
Elvin Jones
Elvin Jones was a pioneering American jazz drummer best known for his polyrhythmic, explosive work with the John Coltrane Quartet, which reshaped modern jazz drumming.
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D.
Lamman Rucker
Lamman Rucker is an American actor best known for his prominent roles in television dramas, including his starring role on the series "Greenleaf."
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E.
Melvin Edmonds
Melvin Edmonds was an American R&B singer best known as a founding member of the group After 7.
- 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: Clifford Jordan Target entity description: Clifford Jordan was an American jazz tenor saxophonist known for his robust tone, hard bop style, and work as both a bandleader and sideman from the 1950s onward.
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A.
Clifton Brown
Clifton Brown is a notable individual distinguished by the given name Clifton, recognized among prominent bearers of that name.
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B.
Stevland Hardaway Judkins
Stevland Hardaway Judkins is the birth name of Stevie Wonder, the legendary American singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer.
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C.
Elvin Jones
Elvin Jones was a pioneering American jazz drummer best known for his polyrhythmic, explosive work with the John Coltrane Quartet, which reshaped modern jazz drumming.
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D.
Lamman Rucker
Lamman Rucker is an American actor best known for his prominent roles in television dramas, including his starring role on the series "Greenleaf."
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E.
Melvin Edmonds
Melvin Edmonds was an American R&B singer best known as a founding member of the group After 7.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
jazz musician ⓘ tenor saxophonist ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1950s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Art Farmer
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cedar Walton NERFINISHED ⓘ Charles Mingus NERFINISHED ⓘ Horace Silver NERFINISHED ⓘ J. J. Johnson NERFINISHED ⓘ John Gilmore NERFINISHED ⓘ Kenny Dorham NERFINISHED ⓘ Lee Morgan NERFINISHED ⓘ Max Roach NERFINISHED ⓘ Von Freeman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedIn | New York City ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1931-09-02 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1993-03-27 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Black Americans
ⓘ
surface form:
African American
|
| familyName | Jordan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
hard bop
ⓘ
jazz ⓘ |
| givenName | Clifford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| instrument | tenor saxophone ⓘ |
| movement | hard bop ⓘ |
| name | Clifford Jordan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFeature | robust tenor saxophone tone ⓘ |
| notableRole |
bandleader
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sideman ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Bearcat
NERFINISHED
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Blowing in from Chicago NERFINISHED ⓘ Cliff Craft NERFINISHED ⓘ Glass Bead Games NERFINISHED ⓘ In the World NERFINISHED ⓘ Spellbound NERFINISHED ⓘ These Are My Roots: Clifford Jordan Plays Leadbelly NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
bandleader
ⓘ
composer ⓘ musician ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Chicago, Illinois, United States ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
New York City
ⓘ
surface form:
New York City, New York, United States
|
| recordLabel |
Blue Note Records
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Muse Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Riverside Records NERFINISHED ⓘ SteepleChase Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Strata-East Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Sandy Jordan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Clifford Jordan Description of subject: Clifford Jordan was an American jazz tenor saxophonist known for his robust tone, hard bop style, and work as both a bandleader and sideman from the 1950s onward.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.