Nelson Eddy
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Nelson Eddy was a popular American baritone singer and film actor best known for his musical films of the 1930s and 1940s, particularly his collaborations with Jeanette MacDonald.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nelson Eddy canonical | 16 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3240945 — 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: Nelson Eddy Context triple: [Make Mine Music, featuresPerformer, Nelson Eddy]
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A.
Eddie Foy
Eddie Foy was a prominent American vaudeville and stage comedian best known as the patriarch of the performing family act "The Seven Little Foys."
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B.
Roy Harlow
Roy Harlow was the husband of silent film actress Marie Mosquini, known primarily in relation to her career in early American cinema.
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C.
Elisha Cook Jr.
Elisha Cook Jr. was an American character actor best known for his portrayals of nervous, hapless, or morally compromised men in classic film noir and crime movies.
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D.
Warner Oland
Warner Oland was a Swedish-American actor best known for portraying the detective Charlie Chan in a popular series of 1930s films.
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E.
Joseph W. Young
Joseph W. Young was an American real estate developer and city planner best known for creating and developing the planned community of Hollywood, Florida, in the early 20th century.
- 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: Nelson Eddy Target entity description: Nelson Eddy was a popular American baritone singer and film actor best known for his musical films of the 1930s and 1940s, particularly his collaborations with Jeanette MacDonald.
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A.
Eddie Foy
Eddie Foy was a prominent American vaudeville and stage comedian best known as the patriarch of the performing family act "The Seven Little Foys."
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B.
Roy Harlow
Roy Harlow was the husband of silent film actress Marie Mosquini, known primarily in relation to her career in early American cinema.
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C.
Elisha Cook Jr.
Elisha Cook Jr. was an American character actor best known for his portrayals of nervous, hapless, or morally compromised men in classic film noir and crime movies.
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D.
Warner Oland
Warner Oland was a Swedish-American actor best known for portraying the detective Charlie Chan in a popular series of 1930s films.
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E.
Joseph W. Young
Joseph W. Young was an American real estate developer and city planner best known for creating and developing the planned community of Hollywood, Florida, in the early 20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (61)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
baritone singer
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ opera singer ⓘ recording artist ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Eddy ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
concert performance
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film ⓘ radio ⓘ recorded music ⓘ |
| genre |
classical music
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operetta ⓘ popular music ⓘ |
| givenName | Nelson ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Nelson Eddy ⓘ |
| notableFor |
musical films of the 1930s and 1940s
ⓘ
screen partnership with Jeanette MacDonald ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Balalaika
ⓘ
Bitter Sweet ⓘ Bitter Sweet (radio adaptation) ⓘ
linked to:
Bitter Sweet
Broadway Serenade ⓘ I Married an Angel ⓘ Let Freedom Ring ⓘ Maytime ⓘ Maytime (radio adaptation) ⓘ
linked to:
Maytime
Naughty Marietta ⓘ Naughty Marietta (radio adaptation) ⓘ New Moon ⓘ
linked to:
The New Moon
Northwest Outpost ⓘ Phantom of the Opera (1943 film) ⓘ
linked to:
The Phantom of the Opera
Rosalie ⓘ Rose-Marie ⓘ Rose-Marie (radio adaptation) ⓘ Sweethearts ⓘ Sweethearts (radio adaptation) ⓘ
linked to:
Sweethearts (1938 film)
The Chase and Sanborn Hour ⓘ The Chocolate Soldier ⓘ The Chocolate Soldier (radio adaptation) ⓘ
linked to:
The Chocolate Soldier
The Desert Song (1953 TV film) ⓘ
linked to:
The Desert Song
The Desert Song (radio adaptation) ⓘ
linked to:
The Desert Song
The Electric Hour ⓘ The Firefly (radio adaptation) ⓘ
linked to:
The Firefly
The Girl of the Golden West ⓘ
linked to:
La fanciulla del West
The Kraft Music Hall (radio) ⓘ The Merry Widow (radio adaptation) ⓘ
linked to:
The Merry Widow (operetta)
The Nelson Eddy Show ⓘ The New Moon (radio adaptation) ⓘ The Railroad Hour ⓘ The Red Mill (radio adaptation) ⓘ
linked to:
The Red Mill
The Student Prince (radio adaptation) ⓘ
linked to:
The Student Prince
The Vagabond King (radio adaptation) ⓘ
linked to:
The Vagabond King
|
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
singer ⓘ voice teacher ⓘ |
| partnerInWork | Jeanette MacDonald ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Columbia Records
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RCA Victor ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| vocalRange | 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: Nelson Eddy Description of subject: Nelson Eddy was a popular American baritone singer and film actor best known for his musical films of the 1930s and 1940s, particularly his collaborations with Jeanette MacDonald.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.