Kenny Young
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Kenny Young is an American songwriter and producer best known for co-writing the classic 1964 hit "Under the Boardwalk" for The Drifters.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Kenny Young canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13542609 — 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: Kenny Young Context triple: [Under the Boardwalk, writer, Kenny Young]
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A.
Kenneth Young
Kenneth Young is a Scottish video game composer and sound designer best known for his work on the LittleBigPlanet series and other acclaimed titles.
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B.
Darryl Glover
Darryl Glover is a character in Cory Doctorow’s novel "Little Brother," known as one of Marcus Yallow’s close friends and fellow teenage rebels against an oppressive surveillance state.
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C.
Horace Maynard
Horace Maynard was a 19th-century American politician and diplomat from Tennessee who served in the U.S. House of Representatives and as U.S. Postmaster General.
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D.
Nasheet Waits
Nasheet Waits is an American jazz drummer known for his inventive, dynamic playing and collaborations with leading contemporary jazz artists.
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E.
Kenny Sheard
Kenny Sheard is a stunt performer and actor known for his work in high-octane action films.
- 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: Kenny Young Target entity description: Kenny Young is an American songwriter and producer best known for co-writing the classic 1964 hit "Under the Boardwalk" for The Drifters.
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A.
Kenneth Young
Kenneth Young is a Scottish video game composer and sound designer best known for his work on the LittleBigPlanet series and other acclaimed titles.
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B.
Darryl Glover
Darryl Glover is a character in Cory Doctorow’s novel "Little Brother," known as one of Marcus Yallow’s close friends and fellow teenage rebels against an oppressive surveillance state.
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C.
Horace Maynard
Horace Maynard was a 19th-century American politician and diplomat from Tennessee who served in the U.S. House of Representatives and as U.S. Postmaster General.
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D.
Nasheet Waits
Nasheet Waits is an American jazz drummer known for his inventive, dynamic playing and collaborations with leading contemporary jazz artists.
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E.
Kenny Sheard
Kenny Sheard is a stunt performer and actor known for his work in high-octane action films.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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record producer ⓘ song ⓘ songwriter ⓘ vocal group ⓘ |
| activeIn | 1960s ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| coWriterWith | Arthur Resnick ⓘ |
| coWrote | Under the Boardwalk ⓘ |
| genre |
R&B
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R&B ⓘ pop music ⓘ rock music ⓘ soul music ⓘ soul music ⓘ |
| hasWorkRecordedBy | The Drifters ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
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English ⓘ |
| notableFor | co-writing the 1964 hit Under the Boardwalk for The Drifters ⓘ |
| notableWork | Under the Boardwalk ⓘ |
| occupation |
record producer
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songwriter ⓘ |
| performer | The Drifters ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1964 ⓘ |
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: Kenny Young Description of subject: Kenny Young is an American songwriter and producer best known for co-writing the classic 1964 hit "Under the Boardwalk" for The Drifters.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.