Jacob Harold Levison
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Jacob Harold Levison, better known as Jay Livingston, was an American composer and songwriter famed for co-writing classic film and popular songs such as "Que Será, Será" and "Mona Lisa."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jacob Harold Levison canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8953444 — 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: Jacob Harold Levison Context triple: [Jay Livingston, birthName, Jacob Harold Levison]
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A.
Howard Stanton Levey
Howard Stanton Levey, better known as Anton LaVey, was an American occultist, author, and musician who founded the Church of Satan and wrote The Satanic Bible.
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B.
Stephen Levinson
Stephen Levinson is an American television and film producer and talent manager best known for producing hit series like "Entourage" and "Ballers."
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C.
John Lissauer
John Lissauer is an American record producer, composer, and arranger best known for his work on Leonard Cohen’s classic song “Hallelujah.”
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D.
David F. Levi
David F. Levi is an American legal scholar and former federal judge who served as dean of Duke University School of Law.
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E.
David Levy
David Levy was an American television producer and writer best known for developing and producing the original 1964 TV adaptation of "The Addams Family."
- 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: Jacob Harold Levison Target entity description: Jacob Harold Levison, better known as Jay Livingston, was an American composer and songwriter famed for co-writing classic film and popular songs such as "Que Será, Será" and "Mona Lisa."
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A.
Howard Stanton Levey
Howard Stanton Levey, better known as Anton LaVey, was an American occultist, author, and musician who founded the Church of Satan and wrote The Satanic Bible.
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B.
Stephen Levinson
Stephen Levinson is an American television and film producer and talent manager best known for producing hit series like "Entourage" and "Ballers."
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C.
John Lissauer
John Lissauer is an American record producer, composer, and arranger best known for his work on Leonard Cohen’s classic song “Hallelujah.”
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D.
David F. Levi
David F. Levi is an American legal scholar and former federal judge who served as dean of Duke University School of Law.
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E.
David Levy
David Levy was an American television producer and writer best known for developing and producing the original 1964 TV adaptation of "The Addams Family."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
composer
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film composer ⓘ human ⓘ song ⓘ songwriter ⓘ stage name ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Jay Livingston ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Academy Award for Best Original Song ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | Ray Evans ⓘ |
| composer |
Jacob Harold Levison
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Jacob Harold Levison ⓘ Jacob Harold Levison ⓘ Jacob Harold Levison ⓘ Jacob Harold Levison ⓘ Jacob Harold Levison ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film music
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popular songwriting ⓘ |
| genre |
film music
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popular music ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| lyricist |
Ray Evans
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Ray Evans ⓘ Ray Evans ⓘ Ray Evans ⓘ Ray Evans ⓘ Ray Evans ⓘ |
| name | Jacob Harold Levison ⓘ |
| notablePerformer |
Bing Crosby
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Doris Day ⓘ Nat King Cole ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Buttons and Bows
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Mona Lisa ⓘ Que Será, Será ⓘ
linked to:
Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)
Silver Bells ⓘ Tammy ⓘ To Each His Own ⓘ |
| occupation |
composer
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film composer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
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: Jacob Harold Levison Description of subject: Jacob Harold Levison, better known as Jay Livingston, was an American composer and songwriter famed for co-writing classic film and popular songs such as "Que Será, Será" and "Mona Lisa."
Referenced by (9)
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