Henry Creamer
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Henry Creamer was an early 20th-century American lyricist and vaudeville performer known for co-writing popular jazz and blues standards.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Henry Creamer canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5974706 — 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: Henry Creamer Context triple: [After You've Gone, lyricist, Henry Creamer]
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A.
George Davenport
George Davenport was a 19th-century American fur trader and early settler whose influence on the region led to the city of Davenport, Iowa being named in his honor.
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B.
Edwin Blashfield
Edwin Blashfield was an American muralist and painter best known for his large-scale allegorical works in prominent public buildings across the United States.
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C.
George Shively
George Shively was an early 20th-century Negro league outfielder known for his speed, strong defense, and key role on several prominent Black baseball teams.
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D.
George Bowers
George Bowers was an American film editor known for his work on numerous Hollywood movies, including the baseball comedy-drama "A League of Their Own."
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E.
Ralph Meeker
Ralph Meeker was an American actor best known for his tough-guy roles in film noir and drama during the 1950s and 1960s.
- 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: Henry Creamer Target entity description: Henry Creamer was an early 20th-century American lyricist and vaudeville performer known for co-writing popular jazz and blues standards.
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A.
George Davenport
George Davenport was a 19th-century American fur trader and early settler whose influence on the region led to the city of Davenport, Iowa being named in his honor.
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B.
Edwin Blashfield
Edwin Blashfield was an American muralist and painter best known for his large-scale allegorical works in prominent public buildings across the United States.
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C.
George Shively
George Shively was an early 20th-century Negro league outfielder known for his speed, strong defense, and key role on several prominent Black baseball teams.
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D.
George Bowers
George Bowers was an American film editor known for his work on numerous Hollywood movies, including the baseball comedy-drama "A League of Their Own."
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E.
Ralph Meeker
Ralph Meeker was an American actor best known for his tough-guy roles in film noir and drama during the 1950s and 1960s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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lyricist ⓘ vaudeville performer ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
James P. Johnson
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Louis Armstrong ⓘ Turner Layton ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
lyric writing
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musical theatre ⓘ songwriting ⓘ |
| genre |
blues
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jazz ⓘ popular music ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement |
Tin Pan Alley
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vaudeville ⓘ |
| notableFor |
co-writing popular blues standards
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co-writing popular jazz standards ⓘ |
| notableWork |
After You've Gone
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Alabama Stomp ⓘ Dear Old Southland ⓘ If I Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight) ⓘ Way Down Yonder in New Orleans ⓘ You Were Meant for Me ⓘ |
| occupation |
lyricist
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songwriter ⓘ vaudeville performer ⓘ |
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: Henry Creamer Description of subject: Henry Creamer was an early 20th-century American lyricist and vaudeville performer known for co-writing popular jazz and blues standards.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.