Alan Lomax
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Alan Lomax was an American folklorist, ethnomusicologist, and field collector renowned for preserving and promoting traditional folk music from across the United States and around the world.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Alan Lomax canonical | 32 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2966867 — 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: Alan Lomax Context triple: [Grammy Trustees Award, hasNotableRecipient, Alan Lomax]
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A.
Robert Lomax
Robert Lomax is the central protagonist of the novel and film "The World of Suzie Wong," an aspiring artist and expatriate who develops a complex romantic relationship with a Hong Kong sex worker.
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B.
Henry Hornbostel
Henry Hornbostel was a prominent early 20th-century American architect and engineer known for designing major civic structures, university campuses, and landmark bridges.
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C.
William E. McEuen
William E. McEuen was an American film producer best known for his collaborations with comedian Steve Martin on several successful comedy films.
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D.
Cecil Sharp
Cecil Sharp was an influential English folk song and dance collector and musicologist who played a key role in the early 20th-century folk revival in England.
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E.
Pete Seeger
Pete Seeger was a seminal American folk singer, songwriter, and social activist whose music and advocacy were central to the 20th-century folk revival and numerous progressive movements.
- 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: Alan Lomax Target entity description: Alan Lomax was an American folklorist, ethnomusicologist, and field collector renowned for preserving and promoting traditional folk music from across the United States and around the world.
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A.
Robert Lomax
Robert Lomax is the central protagonist of the novel and film "The World of Suzie Wong," an aspiring artist and expatriate who develops a complex romantic relationship with a Hong Kong sex worker.
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B.
Henry Hornbostel
Henry Hornbostel was a prominent early 20th-century American architect and engineer known for designing major civic structures, university campuses, and landmark bridges.
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C.
William E. McEuen
William E. McEuen was an American film producer best known for his collaborations with comedian Steve Martin on several successful comedy films.
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D.
Cecil Sharp
Cecil Sharp was an influential English folk song and dance collector and musicologist who played a key role in the early 20th-century folk revival in England.
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E.
Pete Seeger
Pete Seeger was a seminal American folk singer, songwriter, and social activist whose music and advocacy were central to the 20th-century folk revival and numerous progressive movements.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
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: Alan Lomax Description of subject: Alan Lomax was an American folklorist, ethnomusicologist, and field collector renowned for preserving and promoting traditional folk music from across the United States and around the world.
Referenced by (32)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.