Bobby Vee
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Bobby Vee was an American pop singer of the early 1960s known for hits like "Take Good Care of My Baby" and "The Night Has a Thousand Eyes."
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bobby Vee canonical | 31 |
| Bobby Vee discography | 1 |
| Bobby Vee version | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4654386 — 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: Bobby Vee Context triple: [Liberty Records, notableArtist, Bobby Vee]
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A.
Bobby Vinton
Bobby Vinton is an American pop singer and songwriter best known for his smooth vocal style and a string of romantic hits in the 1960s and 1970s, including "Blue Velvet."
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B.
David Cassidy
David Cassidy was an American singer, actor, and 1970s teen idol best known for his role as Keith Partridge on the television series "The Partridge Family."
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C.
Lesley Gore
Lesley Gore was an American pop singer and songwriter best known for her 1963 hit single "It's My Party."
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D.
Bobby Darin
Bobby Darin was an American singer, songwriter, and actor known for his versatile pop, jazz, and rock performances, with hits like "Mack the Knife" and "Beyond the Sea."
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E.
Donny Osmond
Donny Osmond is an American singer, actor, and former teen idol best known for his work as a solo artist and as part of the Osmonds, as well as for his long-running entertainment career on television and stage.
- 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: Bobby Vee Target entity description: Bobby Vee was an American pop singer of the early 1960s known for hits like "Take Good Care of My Baby" and "The Night Has a Thousand Eyes."
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A.
Bobby Vinton
Bobby Vinton is an American pop singer and songwriter best known for his smooth vocal style and a string of romantic hits in the 1960s and 1970s, including "Blue Velvet."
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B.
David Cassidy
David Cassidy was an American singer, actor, and 1970s teen idol best known for his role as Keith Partridge on the television series "The Partridge Family."
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C.
Lesley Gore
Lesley Gore was an American pop singer and songwriter best known for her 1963 hit single "It's My Party."
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D.
Bobby Darin
Bobby Darin was an American singer, songwriter, and actor known for his versatile pop, jazz, and rock performances, with hits like "Mack the Knife" and "Beyond the Sea."
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E.
Donny Osmond
Donny Osmond is an American singer, actor, and former teen idol best known for his work as a solo artist and as part of the Osmonds, as well as for his long-running entertainment career on television and stage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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pop singer ⓘ recording artist ⓘ singer ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 2011 ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1959 ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
The Crickets
ⓘ
The Shadows (Bobby Vee's backing band) ⓘ
linked to:
The Shadows
|
| birthName | Robert Thomas Velline ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | complications of Alzheimer's disease ⓘ |
| child |
Jeff Vee
ⓘ
Tommy Vee ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1943-04-30 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2016-10-24 ⓘ |
| diagnosedWith | Alzheimer's disease ⓘ |
| genre |
pop
ⓘ
rock and roll ⓘ teen pop ⓘ |
| hasGenreCharacteristic | teen idol appeal ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Buddy Holly ⓘ |
| instrument |
guitar
ⓘ
vocals ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Bobby Vee ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
Scored multiple Top 10 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 in the early 1960s
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Take Good Care of My Baby reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1961 ⓘ |
| notableEvent | Got early break filling in after the plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. Richardson in 1959 ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Come Back When You Grow Up
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Devil or Angel ⓘ More Than I Can Say ⓘ Rubber Ball ⓘ Run to Him ⓘ Suzie Baby ⓘ Take Good Care of My Baby ⓘ The Night Has a Thousand Eyes ⓘ
linked to:
Night Has a Thousand Eyes
|
| numberOfChildren | 4 ⓘ |
| occupation |
musician
ⓘ
singer ⓘ |
| partOf | early 1960s American pop music scene ⓘ |
| performedSong |
Devil or Angel
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Rubber Ball ⓘ Run to Him ⓘ Take Good Care of My Baby ⓘ The Night Has a Thousand Eyes ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Fargo, North Dakota, United States
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linked to:
Fargo, North Dakota
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| placeOfDeath |
Rogers, Minnesota, United States
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linked to:
Rogers, Minnesota
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| recordLabel | Liberty Records ⓘ |
| residence |
St. Cloud, Minnesota, United States
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linked to:
Saint Cloud, Minnesota
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| spouse | Karen Bergen ⓘ |
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: Bobby Vee Description of subject: Bobby Vee was an American pop singer of the early 1960s known for hits like "Take Good Care of My Baby" and "The Night Has a Thousand Eyes."
Referenced by (33)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Take Good Care of My Baby (Bobby Vee hit)
subject linked to:
Take Good Care of My Baby (Bobby Vee hit)
subject linked to:
Take Good Care of My Baby (Bobby Vee hit)
subject linked to:
Take Good Care of My Baby (Bobby Vee hit)
subject linked to:
“Rubber Ball”
subject linked to:
“Rubber Ball”
subject linked to:
“Sunny”
linked to: Bobby Vee
linked to: Bobby Vee