Cedar Walton
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Cedar Walton was an American jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader known for his work in hard bop and his collaborations with many leading jazz artists.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Cedar Walton canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10458951 — 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: Cedar Walton Context triple: [Nica's Dream, associatedPerformer, Cedar Walton]
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A.
Thad Jones
Thad Jones was an influential American jazz trumpeter, composer, and bandleader known for his sophisticated arrangements and co-leading the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra.
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B.
William Henderson
William Henderson was an early settler and landowner after whom the town of Henderson in Jefferson County, New York, was named.
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C.
Charles Lloyd
Charles Lloyd is an influential American jazz saxophonist, flutist, and composer known for his genre-blending style and acclaimed work since the 1960s.
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D.
Charles Waldron
Charles Waldron was an American character actor of stage and screen, active in the early 20th century and known for his supporting roles in classic Hollywood films.
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E.
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.
- 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: Cedar Walton Target entity description: Cedar Walton was an American jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader known for his work in hard bop and his collaborations with many leading jazz artists.
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A.
Thad Jones
Thad Jones was an influential American jazz trumpeter, composer, and bandleader known for his sophisticated arrangements and co-leading the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra.
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B.
William Henderson
William Henderson was an early settler and landowner after whom the town of Henderson in Jefferson County, New York, was named.
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C.
Charles Lloyd
Charles Lloyd is an influential American jazz saxophonist, flutist, and composer known for his genre-blending style and acclaimed work since the 1960s.
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D.
Charles Waldron
Charles Waldron was an American character actor of stage and screen, active in the early 20th century and known for his supporting roles in classic Hollywood films.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bandleader
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composer ⓘ human ⓘ jazz pianist ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 2010s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1950s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Art Blakey
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Art Farmer NERFINISHED ⓘ Benny Golson NERFINISHED ⓘ Billy Higgins NERFINISHED ⓘ Clifford Jordan NERFINISHED ⓘ Freddie Hubbard NERFINISHED ⓘ J. J. Johnson NERFINISHED ⓘ John Coltrane NERFINISHED ⓘ Kenny Dorham NERFINISHED ⓘ Lee Morgan NERFINISHED ⓘ Milt Jackson NERFINISHED ⓘ Sam Jones NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Jazz Album
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1934-01-17 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2013-08-19 ⓘ |
| ethnicity | African-American ⓘ |
| fullName | Cedar Anthony Walton Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
hard bop
ⓘ
jazz ⓘ |
| instrument | piano ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Eastern Rebellion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement | hard bop ⓘ |
| notableAlbum |
Blues for Myself (1986)
NERFINISHED
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Cedar! (1967) NERFINISHED ⓘ Eastern Rebellion (1976) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Maestro (1980) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableRole | pianist for Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Bolivia
NERFINISHED
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Firm Roots NERFINISHED ⓘ Mosaic NERFINISHED ⓘ Ugetsu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
bandleader
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composer ⓘ pianist ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Dallas, Texas
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surface form:
Dallas, Texas, United States
|
| placeOfDeath | Brooklyn, New York, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
HighNote Records
NERFINISHED
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Muse Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Prestige Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Riverside Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Timeless Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Cedar Walton Description of subject: Cedar Walton was an American jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader known for his work in hard bop and his collaborations with many leading jazz artists.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.