Robert B. Sherman
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Robert B. Sherman was an American songwriter best known as one half of the Sherman Brothers duo, who wrote many iconic songs for Disney films such as "Mary Poppins" and "The Jungle Book."
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Robert B. Sherman canonical | 56 |
| Richard M. Sherman | 3 |
| Robert Bernard Sherman | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T173318 — 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: Robert B. Sherman Context triple: [Tom Sawyer (1973 film), hasComposer, Robert B. Sherman]
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A.
Robert Russell Bennett
Robert Russell Bennett was an American composer and orchestrator renowned for shaping the sound of Broadway through his work on classic musicals such as Oklahoma!.
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B.
James L. Flanagan
James L. Flanagan was a pioneering American electrical engineer and speech scientist known for his influential contributions to digital signal processing and speech communication.
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C.
Albert Hackett
Albert Hackett was an American playwright and screenwriter best known for co-writing classic films such as "The Thin Man" and "It's a Wonderful Life," often in collaboration with his wife Frances Goodrich.
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D.
Harold T. Shapiro
Harold T. Shapiro is an economist and academic leader best known for serving as president of both Princeton University and the University of Michigan and for his influential work at the intersection of higher education and public policy.
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E.
Joseph E. Sheffield
Joseph E. Sheffield was a 19th-century American railroad executive and philanthropist whose major donations to Yale University led to the establishment of the Sheffield Scientific School.
- 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: Robert B. Sherman Target entity description: Robert B. Sherman was an American songwriter best known as one half of the Sherman Brothers duo, who wrote many iconic songs for Disney films such as "Mary Poppins" and "The Jungle Book."
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A.
Robert Russell Bennett
Robert Russell Bennett was an American composer and orchestrator renowned for shaping the sound of Broadway through his work on classic musicals such as Oklahoma!.
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B.
James L. Flanagan
James L. Flanagan was a pioneering American electrical engineer and speech scientist known for his influential contributions to digital signal processing and speech communication.
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C.
Albert Hackett
Albert Hackett was an American playwright and screenwriter best known for co-writing classic films such as "The Thin Man" and "It's a Wonderful Life," often in collaboration with his wife Frances Goodrich.
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D.
Harold T. Shapiro
Harold T. Shapiro is an economist and academic leader best known for serving as president of both Princeton University and the University of Michigan and for his influential work at the intersection of higher education and public policy.
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E.
Joseph E. Sheffield
Joseph E. Sheffield was a 19th-century American railroad executive and philanthropist whose major donations to Yale University led to the establishment of the Sheffield Scientific School.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Sherman Brothers
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author ⓘ human ⓘ lyricist ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Academy Award for Best Original Song (with Sherman Brothers, for Mary Poppins)
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linked to:
Academy Award for Best Original Song
Grammy Award for Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Show (Mary Poppins) ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1925-12-19 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
New York
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New York City ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| deathDate | 2012-03-05 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
England
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London ⓘ
linked to:
London, England
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| employer |
Walt Disney Productions
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linked to:
The Walt Disney Company
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| familyName | Sherman ⓘ |
| fullName |
Robert Bernard Sherman
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linked to:
Robert B. Sherman
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| genre |
film music
ⓘ
musical theatre ⓘ |
| givenName | Robert ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Sherman Brothers songwriting duo
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linked to:
Sherman Brothers
writing songs for Walt Disney Productions ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Sherman Brothers ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Bedknobs and Broomsticks songs
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Charlotte's Web (1973 film) songs ⓘ Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968 film) songs ⓘ
linked to:
Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang
Mary Poppins (1964 film) songs ⓘ
linked to:
Mary Poppins
Snoopy, Come Home songs ⓘ
linked to:
Snoopy, Come Home (1972 film songs)
The Happiest Millionaire songs ⓘ
linked to:
The Happiest Millionaire (1967 film songs)
The Jungle Book (1967 film) songs ⓘ
linked to:
The Jungle Book (1967 film songs)
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh songs ⓘ Winnie the Pooh songs for Disney ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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lyricist ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| partnerInDuoWith | Richard M. Sherman ⓘ |
| residence |
Beverly Hills
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London ⓘ
linked to:
London, England
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| sibling | Richard M. Sherman ⓘ |
| wrote |
"A Spoonful of Sugar"
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linked to:
A Spoonful of Sugar
"Chim Chim Cher-ee" ⓘ
linked to:
Chim Chim Cher-ee (album)
"It's a Small World (After All)" ⓘ
linked to:
It's a Small World (After All)
"Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" ⓘ
linked to:
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
"The Wonderful Thing About Tiggers" ⓘ
linked to:
The Wonderful Thing About Tiggers
"Winnie the Pooh" (theme song) ⓘ
linked to:
Winnie the Pooh (Disney songs)
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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: Robert B. Sherman Description of subject: Robert B. Sherman was an American songwriter best known as one half of the Sherman Brothers duo, who wrote many iconic songs for Disney films such as "Mary Poppins" and "The Jungle Book."
Referenced by (60)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Robert B. Sherman
linked to: Robert B. Sherman
linked to: Robert B. Sherman
linked to: Robert B. Sherman
subject linked to:
It's a Small World (After All)
subject linked to:
It's a Small World (After All)
subject linked to:
You're Sixteen
subject linked to:
You're Sixteen