Frank Lowe
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Frank Lowe was an American free jazz saxophonist known for his intense, avant-garde style and collaborations with leading figures of the 1960s and 1970s jazz avant-garde.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Frank Lowe canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11094392 — 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: Frank Lowe Context triple: [Ronnie Boykins, associatedAct, Frank Lowe]
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A.
Leonard Lowe
Leonard Lowe is a patient with encephalitis lethargica whose temporary revival through experimental treatment forms the emotional core of Oliver Sacks’ memoir and its film adaptation "Awakenings."
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B.
Bill Lowry
Bill Lowry is a person notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Lowry.
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C.
John Lowin
John Lowin was a prominent early 17th-century English actor associated with Shakespeare’s company, known for performing major roles in Jacobean and Caroline drama.
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D.
Robert Hepler Lowe
Robert Hepler Lowe is an American actor, producer, and director known for his roles in films like "St. Elmo's Fire" and TV series such as "The West Wing" and "Parks and Recreation."
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E.
John Lowe
John Lowe is a British pianist best known for playing with the Quarrymen, the skiffle group that evolved into the Beatles, including on one of their earliest recordings.
- 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: Frank Lowe Target entity description: Frank Lowe was an American free jazz saxophonist known for his intense, avant-garde style and collaborations with leading figures of the 1960s and 1970s jazz avant-garde.
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A.
Leonard Lowe
Leonard Lowe is a patient with encephalitis lethargica whose temporary revival through experimental treatment forms the emotional core of Oliver Sacks’ memoir and its film adaptation "Awakenings."
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B.
Bill Lowry
Bill Lowry is a person notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Lowry.
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C.
John Lowin
John Lowin was a prominent early 17th-century English actor associated with Shakespeare’s company, known for performing major roles in Jacobean and Caroline drama.
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D.
Robert Hepler Lowe
Robert Hepler Lowe is an American actor, producer, and director known for his roles in films like "St. Elmo's Fire" and TV series such as "The West Wing" and "Parks and Recreation."
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E.
John Lowe
John Lowe is a British pianist best known for playing with the Quarrymen, the skiffle group that evolved into the Beatles, including on one of their earliest recordings.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
free jazz musician
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jazz saxophonist ⓘ musician ⓘ person ⓘ |
| activeIn |
1960s
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1970s ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Alice Coltrane
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Billy Bang ⓘ Don Cherry ⓘ Joseph Jarman ⓘ Lester Bowie ⓘ Rashied Ali ⓘ Sun Ra ⓘ William Parker ⓘ |
| basedIn | New York City jazz scene ⓘ |
| collaboration |
performed with leading figures of 1960s jazz avant-garde
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performed with leading figures of 1970s jazz avant-garde ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| creativeRole |
bandleader
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sideman ⓘ |
| familyName | Lowe ⓘ |
| field |
improvised music
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music ⓘ |
| genre |
avant-garde jazz
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free jazz ⓘ |
| givenName | Frank ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
John Coltrane
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Ornette Coleman ⓘ |
| instrument | tenor saxophone ⓘ |
| knownFor |
avant-garde improvisation
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intense playing style ⓘ |
| movement | jazz avant-garde ⓘ |
| name | Frank Lowe ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Black Beings
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Exotic Heartbreak ⓘ Fresh ⓘ The Flam ⓘ |
| occupation |
composer
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saxophonist ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Black Saint
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ESP-Disk ⓘ Soul Note ⓘ |
| style |
extended saxophone techniques
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high-energy free improvisation ⓘ |
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: Frank Lowe Description of subject: Frank Lowe was an American free jazz saxophonist known for his intense, avant-garde style and collaborations with leading figures of the 1960s and 1970s jazz avant-garde.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.