Cy Coleman
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Cy Coleman was an American composer and songwriter best known for his work on Broadway musicals such as "Sweet Charity," "Barnum," and "City of Angels."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cy Coleman canonical | 27 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3367226 — 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: Cy Coleman Context triple: [Betty Comden, collaboratedWith, Cy Coleman]
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A.
Lenny Cole
Lenny Cole is a ruthless and manipulative London crime boss in the film "RocknRolla," known for orchestrating high-stakes real estate scams and underworld dealings.
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B.
Eddie Jemison
Eddie Jemison is an American actor best known for playing the tech-savvy hacker Livingston Dell in the Ocean's film series.
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C.
Ed Bullins
Ed Bullins was an influential American playwright whose politically charged, experimental works made him a central voice in the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
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D.
Jo Jones
Jo Jones was an influential American jazz drummer best known for his work with the Count Basie Orchestra, where he helped define the swing era’s rhythmic style.
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E.
Keith Crouch
Keith Crouch is an American R&B songwriter and record producer best known for his work on Brandy’s early hits and other 1990s soul and gospel projects.
- 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: Cy Coleman Target entity description: Cy Coleman was an American composer and songwriter best known for his work on Broadway musicals such as "Sweet Charity," "Barnum," and "City of Angels."
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A.
Lenny Cole
Lenny Cole is a ruthless and manipulative London crime boss in the film "RocknRolla," known for orchestrating high-stakes real estate scams and underworld dealings.
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B.
Eddie Jemison
Eddie Jemison is an American actor best known for playing the tech-savvy hacker Livingston Dell in the Ocean's film series.
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C.
Ed Bullins
Ed Bullins was an influential American playwright whose politically charged, experimental works made him a central voice in the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
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D.
Jo Jones
Jo Jones was an influential American jazz drummer best known for his work with the Count Basie Orchestra, where he helped define the swing era’s rhythmic style.
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E.
Keith Crouch
Keith Crouch is an American R&B songwriter and record producer best known for his work on Brandy’s early hits and other 1990s soul and gospel projects.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Broadway composer
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composer ⓘ human ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Grammy Award
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Tony Award ⓘ Tony Award for Best Original Score ⓘ |
| birthName | Seymour Kaufman ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
Adolph Green
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Betty Comden ⓘ Carolyn Leigh ⓘ David Zippel ⓘ Dorothy Fields ⓘ Michael Stewart ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Broadway musical
ⓘ
theatre ⓘ |
| fullName | Cy Coleman ⓘ |
| genre |
jazz
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musical theatre ⓘ popular music ⓘ |
| hasRole |
composer of film scores
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recording artist ⓘ |
| influenced | American musical theatre ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | Broadway musicals ⓘ |
| notableSong |
Big Spender
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The Best Is Yet to Come ⓘ Witchcraft ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Barnum
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City of Angels ⓘ I Love My Wife ⓘ Little Me ⓘ On the Twentieth Century ⓘ Seesaw ⓘ Sweet Charity ⓘ The Life ⓘ The Will Rogers Follies ⓘ Wildcat ⓘ |
| occupation |
composer
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pianist ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| partOf | American popular music tradition ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | New York City ⓘ |
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: Cy Coleman Description of subject: Cy Coleman was an American composer and songwriter best known for his work on Broadway musicals such as "Sweet Charity," "Barnum," and "City of Angels."
Referenced by (27)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Charity Hope Valentine in Sweet Charity
subject linked to:
Basya Cohen
subject linked to:
The Life (Broadway musical)
subject linked to:
The Life (Broadway musical)