Marc Shaiman
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Marc Shaiman is an American composer, lyricist, and arranger best known for his work on film scores and Broadway musicals, including the music for "Mary Poppins Returns."
All labels observed (1)
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| Marc Shaiman canonical | 72 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1107914 — 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: Marc Shaiman Context triple: [Mary Poppins Returns, musicBy, Marc Shaiman]
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A.
Alan Menken
Alan Menken is an American composer and songwriter best known for creating the music to numerous Disney animated films, including "The Little Mermaid," "Beauty and the Beast," and "Aladdin."
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B.
Howard Ashman
Howard Ashman was an American lyricist, playwright, and producer best known for his acclaimed work on Disney animated musicals such as "The Little Mermaid," "Beauty and the Beast," and "Aladdin."
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C.
Stephen Schwartz
Stephen Schwartz is an American composer and lyricist renowned for his work in musical theatre and film, including the scores and songs for productions such as "Wicked," "Godspell," and Disney's "Pocahontas" and "The Hunchback of Notre Dame."
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D.
Jerry Herman
Jerry Herman was an American composer and lyricist best known for his hit Broadway musicals, including Hello, Dolly! and Mame.
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E.
Robert Lopez
Robert Lopez is an American songwriter and composer best known for co-creating the musicals "Avenue Q" and "The Book of Mormon" and for writing hit songs for Disney films such as "Frozen."
- 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: Marc Shaiman Target entity description: Marc Shaiman is an American composer, lyricist, and arranger best known for his work on film scores and Broadway musicals, including the music for "Mary Poppins Returns."
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A.
Alan Menken
Alan Menken is an American composer and songwriter best known for creating the music to numerous Disney animated films, including "The Little Mermaid," "Beauty and the Beast," and "Aladdin."
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B.
Howard Ashman
Howard Ashman was an American lyricist, playwright, and producer best known for his acclaimed work on Disney animated musicals such as "The Little Mermaid," "Beauty and the Beast," and "Aladdin."
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C.
Stephen Schwartz
Stephen Schwartz is an American composer and lyricist renowned for his work in musical theatre and film, including the scores and songs for productions such as "Wicked," "Godspell," and Disney's "Pocahontas" and "The Hunchback of Notre Dame."
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D.
Jerry Herman
Jerry Herman was an American composer and lyricist best known for his hit Broadway musicals, including Hello, Dolly! and Mame.
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E.
Robert Lopez
Robert Lopez is an American songwriter and composer best known for co-creating the musicals "Avenue Q" and "The Book of Mormon" and for writing hit songs for Disney films such as "Frozen."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Marc Shaiman Description of subject: Marc Shaiman is an American composer, lyricist, and arranger best known for his work on film scores and Broadway musicals, including the music for "Mary Poppins Returns."
Referenced by (72)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.