Reggie Workman
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Reggie Workman is an American jazz bassist renowned for his work with John Coltrane and other leading figures of the avant-garde and post-bop movements.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Reggie Workman canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10515288 — 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: Reggie Workman Context triple: [Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, notableMember, Reggie Workman]
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A.
Reggie Williams
Reggie Williams is a former American professional basketball player best known for his standout college career at Georgetown University and his lengthy NBA tenure, primarily with the Denver Nuggets.
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B.
Reggie Johnson
Reggie Johnson is an American jazz double bassist known for his work in the hard bop and post-bop scenes from the 1960s onward.
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C.
Warrick Brown
Warrick Brown is a fictional crime scene investigator and forensic analyst on the television series "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation."
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D.
Reggie Perrin
Reggie Perrin is a British television sitcom, adapted from the classic "The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin," about a middle-aged executive undergoing a comic midlife crisis.
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E.
Derrick Trotman
Derrick Trotman is a music producer known for his work on the track "Umi Says."
- 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: Reggie Workman Target entity description: Reggie Workman is an American jazz bassist renowned for his work with John Coltrane and other leading figures of the avant-garde and post-bop movements.
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A.
Reggie Williams
Reggie Williams is a former American professional basketball player best known for his standout college career at Georgetown University and his lengthy NBA tenure, primarily with the Denver Nuggets.
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B.
Reggie Johnson
Reggie Johnson is an American jazz double bassist known for his work in the hard bop and post-bop scenes from the 1960s onward.
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C.
Warrick Brown
Warrick Brown is a fictional crime scene investigator and forensic analyst on the television series "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation."
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D.
Reggie Perrin
Reggie Perrin is a British television sitcom, adapted from the classic "The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin," about a middle-aged executive undergoing a comic midlife crisis.
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E.
Derrick Trotman
Derrick Trotman is a music producer known for his work on the track "Umi Says."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (56)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
composer
ⓘ
double bassist ⓘ human ⓘ jazz musician ⓘ music educator ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Andrew Hill
NERFINISHED
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Art Blakey NERFINISHED ⓘ Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers NERFINISHED ⓘ Chico Hamilton NERFINISHED ⓘ David Murray NERFINISHED ⓘ Elvin Jones NERFINISHED ⓘ Eric Dolphy NERFINISHED ⓘ Freddie Hubbard NERFINISHED ⓘ John Coltrane NERFINISHED ⓘ Lee Morgan NERFINISHED ⓘ Marilyn Crispell NERFINISHED ⓘ McCoy Tyner NERFINISHED ⓘ Oliver Lake NERFINISHED ⓘ Pharoah Sanders NERFINISHED ⓘ Wayne Shorter NERFINISHED ⓘ Yusef Lateef NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived | NEA Jazz Master NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Reginald Workman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1937-06-26 ⓘ |
| employer | The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Workman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | music education ⓘ |
| genre |
avant-garde jazz
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jazz ⓘ post-bop ⓘ |
| givenName | Reggie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| instrument | double bass ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers
NERFINISHED
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John Coltrane Quartet NERFINISHED ⓘ Reggie Workman Ensemble NERFINISHED ⓘ Trio 3 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement |
avant-garde jazz movement
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post-bop movement ⓘ |
| name | Reggie Workman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
album "Cerebral Caverns"
NERFINISHED
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album "Images" NERFINISHED ⓘ album "Summit Conference" NERFINISHED ⓘ album "Synthesis" NERFINISHED ⓘ member of the John Coltrane Quartet ⓘ |
| occupation |
bassist
ⓘ
composer ⓘ educator ⓘ musician ⓘ professor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Philadelphia
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surface form:
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
|
| recordLabel |
Blue Note Records
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ECM Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Impulse! Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Prestige Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | 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: Reggie Workman Description of subject: Reggie Workman is an American jazz bassist renowned for his work with John Coltrane and other leading figures of the avant-garde and post-bop movements.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.