Elmo Hope
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Elmo Hope was an influential American jazz pianist and composer associated with the bebop and hard bop movements, known for his complex harmonies and collaborations with leading jazz musicians of the 1950s and 1960s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Elmo Hope canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11094386 — 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: Elmo Hope Context triple: [Ronnie Boykins, associatedAct, Elmo Hope]
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A.
Frank Wess
Frank Wess was an American jazz saxophonist and flutist renowned for his pioneering flute work and long tenure with the Count Basie Orchestra.
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B.
Teddy Wilson
Teddy Wilson was an influential American jazz pianist renowned for his elegant, swing-era style and his work with Benny Goodman and Billie Holiday.
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C.
Roy Eldridge
Roy Eldridge was an influential American jazz trumpeter known for his fiery style and as a key link between swing and bebop.
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D.
Milt Hinton
Milt Hinton was a renowned American jazz double bassist and photographer, celebrated for his long career, distinctive slap bass style, and extensive documentation of jazz history.
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E.
Wardell Gray
Wardell Gray was an American jazz tenor saxophonist known for his virtuosic bebop playing and influential work with bands led by Benny Goodman and Count Basie in the 1940s and early 1950s.
- 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: Elmo Hope Target entity description: Elmo Hope was an influential American jazz pianist and composer associated with the bebop and hard bop movements, known for his complex harmonies and collaborations with leading jazz musicians of the 1950s and 1960s.
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A.
Frank Wess
Frank Wess was an American jazz saxophonist and flutist renowned for his pioneering flute work and long tenure with the Count Basie Orchestra.
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B.
Teddy Wilson
Teddy Wilson was an influential American jazz pianist renowned for his elegant, swing-era style and his work with Benny Goodman and Billie Holiday.
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C.
Roy Eldridge
Roy Eldridge was an influential American jazz trumpeter known for his fiery style and as a key link between swing and bebop.
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D.
Milt Hinton
Milt Hinton was a renowned American jazz double bassist and photographer, celebrated for his long career, distinctive slap bass style, and extensive documentation of jazz history.
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E.
Wardell Gray
Wardell Gray was an American jazz tenor saxophonist known for his virtuosic bebop playing and influential work with bands led by Benny Goodman and Count Basie in the 1940s and early 1950s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bebop musician
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composer ⓘ hard bop musician ⓘ human ⓘ jazz pianist ⓘ |
| activePeriod |
1940s
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1950s ⓘ 1960s ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Bud Powell
NERFINISHED
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Clifford Brown NERFINISHED ⓘ Frank Foster NERFINISHED ⓘ Harold Land NERFINISHED ⓘ Jackie McLean NERFINISHED ⓘ John Coltrane NERFINISHED ⓘ Lou Donaldson NERFINISHED ⓘ Sonny Rollins NERFINISHED ⓘ Thelonious Monk NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | St. Elmo Sylvester Hope NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Calvary Cemetery, Queens NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| dateOfBirth | 1923-06-27 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1967-05-19 ⓘ |
| familyName | Hope NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
bebop
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hard bop ⓘ jazz ⓘ |
| givenName | Elmo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| instrument | piano ⓘ |
| movement |
bebop
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hard bop ⓘ |
| name | Elmo Hope NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Elmo Hope Trio
NERFINISHED
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Homecoming! NERFINISHED ⓘ Informal Jazz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
composer
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pianist ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
New York
NERFINISHED
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New York City ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| placeOfDeath |
New York
NERFINISHED
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New York City ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| recordLabel |
Blue Note Records
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Prestige Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Riverside Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Bertha Hope NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| styleCharacteristic |
advanced bebop vocabulary
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complex harmonies ⓘ |
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: Elmo Hope Description of subject: Elmo Hope was an influential American jazz pianist and composer associated with the bebop and hard bop movements, known for his complex harmonies and collaborations with leading jazz musicians of the 1950s and 1960s.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.