Josh Groban
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Josh Groban is an American singer, songwriter, and actor known for his powerful baritone voice and crossover classical-pop ballads.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Josh Groban canonical | 26 |
| "Josh Groban" | 1 |
| Groban | 1 |
| Joshua Winslow Groban | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1786099 — 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: Josh Groban Context triple: [Sara Bareilles, associatedAct, Josh Groban]
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A.
Gavin DeGraw
Gavin DeGraw is an American singer-songwriter best known for his soulful pop-rock hits like "I Don't Want to Be" and "Chariot."
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B.
Jason Mraz
Jason Mraz is an American singer-songwriter known for his laid-back acoustic pop style and hit songs like "I'm Yours" and "I Won't Give Up."
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C.
Michael Bublé
Michael Bublé is a Canadian singer and songwriter renowned for his smooth vocals and modern interpretations of traditional pop and jazz standards.
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D.
John Tedder
John Tedder is known primarily as the son of Arthur Tedder, the prominent British air marshal and senior Royal Air Force commander during World War II.
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E.
Kris Allen
Kris Allen is an American singer-songwriter best known as the winner of the eighth season of "American Idol."
- 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: Josh Groban Target entity description: Josh Groban is an American singer, songwriter, and actor known for his powerful baritone voice and crossover classical-pop ballads.
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A.
Gavin DeGraw
Gavin DeGraw is an American singer-songwriter best known for his soulful pop-rock hits like "I Don't Want to Be" and "Chariot."
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B.
Jason Mraz
Jason Mraz is an American singer-songwriter known for his laid-back acoustic pop style and hit songs like "I'm Yours" and "I Won't Give Up."
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C.
Michael Bublé
Michael Bublé is a Canadian singer and songwriter renowned for his smooth vocals and modern interpretations of traditional pop and jazz standards.
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D.
John Tedder
John Tedder is known primarily as the son of Arthur Tedder, the prominent British air marshal and senior Royal Air Force commander during World War II.
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E.
Kris Allen
Kris Allen is an American singer-songwriter best known as the winner of the eighth season of "American Idol."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
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human ⓘ recording artist ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| actedIn |
Broadway production "Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812"
ⓘ
TV series "Ally McBeal" ⓘ
linked to:
Ally McBeal
TV series "Glee" ⓘ
linked to:
Glee
TV series "The Office" ⓘ
linked to:
The Office (U.S. TV series)
film "Crazy, Stupid, Love" ⓘ
linked to:
Crazy, Stupid, Love
|
| activeYearsStart | 1998 ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1981-02-27 ⓘ |
| debutAlbum |
"Josh Groban"
ⓘ
linked to:
Josh Groban
|
| debutAlbumReleaseDate | 2001 ⓘ |
| education |
attended Carnegie Mellon University (did not complete)
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attended Los Angeles County High School for the Arts ⓘ |
| familyName |
Groban
ⓘ
linked to:
Josh Groban
|
| fullName |
Joshua Winslow Groban
ⓘ
linked to:
Josh Groban
|
| genre |
adult contemporary
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classical crossover ⓘ pop ⓘ |
| givenName | Joshua ⓘ |
| hasFanbaseName | Grobanites ⓘ |
| hasMusicalStyle | crossover classical-pop ballads ⓘ |
| instrument |
piano
ⓘ
vocals ⓘ |
| knownFor |
crossover classical-pop ballads
ⓘ
powerful baritone voice ⓘ |
| languageOfPerformance |
English
ⓘ
French ⓘ Italian ⓘ Spanish ⓘ |
| nominatedFor | Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album ⓘ |
| notableWork |
album "All That Echoes"
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album "Awake" ⓘ album "Bridges" ⓘ album "Closer" ⓘ album "Harmony" ⓘ album "Illuminations" ⓘ album "Josh Groban" ⓘ album "Noël" ⓘ album "Stages" ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
record producer ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| officialWebsite | https://www.joshgroban.com ⓘ |
| performedAt |
2002 Winter Olympics closing ceremony
ⓘ
Nobel Peace Prize Concert ⓘ
linked to:
Nobel Prize Concert
|
| placeOfBirth | Los Angeles, California, United States ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Reprise Records
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Warner Bros. Records ⓘ |
| voiceType | baritone ⓘ |
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: Josh Groban Description of subject: Josh Groban is an American singer, songwriter, and actor known for his powerful baritone voice and crossover classical-pop ballads.
Referenced by (29)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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subject linked to:
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linked to: Josh Groban
linked to: Josh Groban
linked to: Josh Groban
subject linked to:
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