Alan Silva
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Alan Silva is a Portuguese-American free jazz double bassist and bandleader known for his work with avant-garde jazz pioneers and his influential large-ensemble projects.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alan Silva canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11094391 — 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: Alan Silva Context triple: [Ronnie Boykins, associatedAct, Alan Silva]
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A.
Harold Finch
Harold Finch is a reclusive billionaire software genius who secretly built a surveillance AI to prevent violent crimes in the TV series "Person of Interest."
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B.
Michael Westen
Michael Westen is the resourceful former spy and main protagonist of the television series "Burn Notice," known for using his intelligence and tradecraft to help people while investigating why he was blacklisted.
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C.
Court Gentry
Court Gentry is a highly skilled, enigmatic former CIA operative turned freelance assassin who stars as the titular covert agent in Mark Greaney’s Gray Man thriller series.
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D.
Thomas Drake
Thomas Drake is a former National Security Agency executive and whistleblower known for exposing government surveillance abuses and facing Espionage Act charges as a result.
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E.
Benjamin Poindexter
Benjamin Poindexter is a Marvel Comics supervillain better known as Bullseye, an expert marksman and deadly assassin often depicted as an enemy of Daredevil.
- 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: Alan Silva Target entity description: Alan Silva is a Portuguese-American free jazz double bassist and bandleader known for his work with avant-garde jazz pioneers and his influential large-ensemble projects.
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A.
Harold Finch
Harold Finch is a reclusive billionaire software genius who secretly built a surveillance AI to prevent violent crimes in the TV series "Person of Interest."
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B.
Michael Westen
Michael Westen is the resourceful former spy and main protagonist of the television series "Burn Notice," known for using his intelligence and tradecraft to help people while investigating why he was blacklisted.
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C.
Court Gentry
Court Gentry is a highly skilled, enigmatic former CIA operative turned freelance assassin who stars as the titular covert agent in Mark Greaney’s Gray Man thriller series.
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D.
Thomas Drake
Thomas Drake is a former National Security Agency executive and whistleblower known for exposing government surveillance abuses and facing Espionage Act charges as a result.
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E.
Benjamin Poindexter
Benjamin Poindexter is a Marvel Comics supervillain better known as Bullseye, an expert marksman and deadly assassin often depicted as an enemy of Daredevil.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bandleader
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composer ⓘ double bassist ⓘ free jazz musician ⓘ musician ⓘ person ⓘ |
| activity |
recording leader on multiple avant-garde jazz albums
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sideman on numerous free jazz recordings ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
American free jazz scene
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European free jazz scene ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
Albert Ayler
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Andrew Cyrille ⓘ Archie Shepp ⓘ Bill Dixon ⓘ Burton Greene ⓘ Cecil Taylor ⓘ Frank Wright ⓘ Steve Lacy ⓘ Sun Ra ⓘ |
| genre |
avant-garde jazz
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free jazz ⓘ |
| instrument | double bass ⓘ |
| knownFor |
expansive improvisational style on double bass
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use of large ensembles in free jazz ⓘ |
| nationality | Portuguese-American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
large-ensemble projects
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work with avant-garde jazz pioneers ⓘ |
| occupation |
bandleader
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composer ⓘ double bassist ⓘ |
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: Alan Silva Description of subject: Alan Silva is a Portuguese-American free jazz double bassist and bandleader known for his work with avant-garde jazz pioneers and his influential large-ensemble projects.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.