Teddy Smith
E865829
Teddy Smith is a jazz bassist known for his work with Horace Silver, including his appearance on the classic album "Song for My Father."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Teddy Smith canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10458863 — 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: Teddy Smith Context triple: [Song for My Father (album), featuresMusician, Teddy Smith]
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A.
Frank Fowler
Frank Fowler is a central fictional character in the film "In the Bedroom," whose personal tragedy drives the story’s exploration of grief, revenge, and family breakdown.
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B.
George Moran
George Moran is an American physician best known as the husband of journalist and author Tatiana Schlossberg, the granddaughter of President John F. Kennedy.
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C.
Ernest Tidyman
Ernest Tidyman was an American author and screenwriter best known for creating the character Shaft and writing the Oscar-winning screenplay for the film adaptation of "The French Connection."
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D.
Arthur Lappin
Arthur Lappin is an Irish film producer best known for his long-time collaboration with director Jim Sheridan on acclaimed films such as "My Left Foot" and "In the Name of the Father."
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E.
Thomas Meredith
Thomas Meredith was a 19th-century Baptist minister and educator best known for his role in promoting women's education in North Carolina.
- 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: Teddy Smith Target entity description: Teddy Smith is a jazz bassist known for his work with Horace Silver, including his appearance on the classic album "Song for My Father."
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A.
Frank Fowler
Frank Fowler is a central fictional character in the film "In the Bedroom," whose personal tragedy drives the story’s exploration of grief, revenge, and family breakdown.
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B.
George Moran
George Moran is an American physician best known as the husband of journalist and author Tatiana Schlossberg, the granddaughter of President John F. Kennedy.
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C.
Ernest Tidyman
Ernest Tidyman was an American author and screenwriter best known for creating the character Shaft and writing the Oscar-winning screenplay for the film adaptation of "The French Connection."
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D.
Arthur Lappin
Arthur Lappin is an Irish film producer best known for his long-time collaboration with director Jim Sheridan on acclaimed films such as "My Left Foot" and "In the Name of the Father."
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E.
Thomas Meredith
Thomas Meredith was a 19th-century Baptist minister and educator best known for his role in promoting women's education in North Carolina.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (18)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
jazz album
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jazz bassist ⓘ jazz pianist ⓘ |
| activeIn | 20th-century jazz scene ⓘ |
| artist | Horace Silver ⓘ |
| associatedAct | Horace Silver ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
Horace Silver
ⓘ
Teddy Smith ⓘ |
| featuresMusician | Teddy Smith ⓘ |
| genre | jazz ⓘ |
| instrument | double bass ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor | work with Horace Silver ⓘ |
| notableWork | Song for My Father ⓘ |
| occupation |
bassist
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musician ⓘ |
| performedOn | Song for My Father ⓘ |
| roleOnRecording | bassist on Song for My Father ⓘ |
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: Teddy Smith Description of subject: Teddy Smith is a jazz bassist known for his work with Horace Silver, including his appearance on the classic album "Song for My Father."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.