Harry Crosby
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Harry Crosby is an American investment banker and philanthropist, best known as one of the sons of legendary singer and actor Bing Crosby.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Harry Crosby canonical | 7 |
| Harry Lillis Crosby III | 2 |
| Harry Crosby (son of Bing Crosby) | 1 |
| Harry Crosby III | 1 |
| Harry Lillis Crosby Jr. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T838563 — 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: Harry Crosby Context triple: [Bing Crosby, child, Harry Crosby]
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A.
George Merrill
George Merrill is an American songwriter best known for co-writing Whitney Houston’s hit songs “How Will I Know” and “I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me).”
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B.
S. R. Hadden
S. R. Hadden is a wealthy, eccentric industrialist and visionary technologist who secretly funds and guides the search for extraterrestrial intelligence in Carl Sagan’s novel and film "Contact."
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C.
Henry Drummond Wolff
Henry Drummond Wolff was a British Conservative politician and diplomat of the late 19th century, noted for his role in party politics and foreign service.
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D.
Douglas Clifton Brown
Douglas Clifton Brown was a British Conservative politician who served as Speaker of the House of Commons during the Second World War and the early postwar period.
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E.
Sidney Blackmer
Sidney Blackmer was an American stage, film, and television actor best known for his character roles in classic Hollywood cinema, including his memorable performance in "Rosemary's Baby."
- 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: Harry Crosby Target entity description: Harry Crosby is an American investment banker and philanthropist, best known as one of the sons of legendary singer and actor Bing Crosby.
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A.
George Merrill
George Merrill is an American songwriter best known for co-writing Whitney Houston’s hit songs “How Will I Know” and “I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me).”
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B.
S. R. Hadden
S. R. Hadden is a wealthy, eccentric industrialist and visionary technologist who secretly funds and guides the search for extraterrestrial intelligence in Carl Sagan’s novel and film "Contact."
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C.
Henry Drummond Wolff
Henry Drummond Wolff was a British Conservative politician and diplomat of the late 19th century, noted for his role in party politics and foreign service.
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D.
Douglas Clifton Brown
Douglas Clifton Brown was a British Conservative politician who served as Speaker of the House of Commons during the Second World War and the early postwar period.
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E.
Sidney Blackmer
Sidney Blackmer was an American stage, film, and television actor best known for his character roles in classic Hollywood cinema, including his memorable performance in "Rosemary's Baby."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
investment banker ⓘ philanthropist ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
English American
ⓘ
Irish American ⓘ |
| familyName | Crosby ⓘ |
| father | Bing Crosby ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
finance
ⓘ
philanthropy ⓘ |
| givenName | Harry ⓘ |
| hasNotableRelative |
Bob Crosby
ⓘ
Dixie Lee ⓘ Larry Crosby ⓘ |
| hasPartInName |
Harry Lillis Crosby III
ⓘ
linked to:
Harry Crosby
|
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFamily | Crosby family ⓘ |
| notableFor | being a son of Bing Crosby ⓘ |
| notableWork | philanthropic activities ⓘ |
| occupation |
investment banker
ⓘ
philanthropist ⓘ |
| relative | Bing Crosby ⓘ |
| saidToBeTheSameAs |
Harry Lillis Crosby III
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linked to:
Harry Crosby
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sibling |
Dennis Crosby
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Gary Crosby ⓘ Lindsay Crosby ⓘ Mary Crosby ⓘ Nathaniel Crosby ⓘ Phillip Crosby ⓘ |
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: Harry Crosby Description of subject: Harry Crosby is an American investment banker and philanthropist, best known as one of the sons of legendary singer and actor Bing Crosby.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Harry Crosby
linked to: Harry Crosby
linked to: Harry Crosby