Robert Sour
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Robert Sour was an American lyricist best known for co-writing the jazz standard "Body and Soul" and contributing to popular songs and film music in the mid-20th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Robert Sour canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9657053 — 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: Robert Sour Context triple: [Body and Soul, lyricist, Robert Sour]
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A.
Robert Seaman
Robert Seaman was a wealthy American industrialist and manufacturer who became known as the husband of pioneering journalist Nellie Bly.
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B.
Mark Sourian
Mark Sourian is a film producer known for working on major studio projects, including action and genre films for Hollywood.
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C.
Robert Atwood
Robert Atwood is a television producer best known for his executive production work on the series "Emergence."
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D.
Matt Squire
Matt Squire is an American record producer and songwriter known for his work with prominent pop-punk, rock, and pop artists such as Panic! at the Disco, All Time Low, and Ariana Grande.
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E.
Robert Paul Smith
Robert Paul Smith was an American author and playwright best known for his humorous novels and plays, including the work that inspired the romantic comedy "The Tender Trap."
- 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: Robert Sour Target entity description: Robert Sour was an American lyricist best known for co-writing the jazz standard "Body and Soul" and contributing to popular songs and film music in the mid-20th century.
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A.
Robert Seaman
Robert Seaman was a wealthy American industrialist and manufacturer who became known as the husband of pioneering journalist Nellie Bly.
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B.
Mark Sourian
Mark Sourian is a film producer known for working on major studio projects, including action and genre films for Hollywood.
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C.
Robert Atwood
Robert Atwood is a television producer best known for his executive production work on the series "Emergence."
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D.
Matt Squire
Matt Squire is an American record producer and songwriter known for his work with prominent pop-punk, rock, and pop artists such as Panic! at the Disco, All Time Low, and Ariana Grande.
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E.
Robert Paul Smith
Robert Paul Smith was an American author and playwright best known for his humorous novels and plays, including the work that inspired the romantic comedy "The Tender Trap."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (18)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
lyricist ⓘ |
| activePeriod | mid-20th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| coWrote | Body and Soul ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
lyrics
ⓘ
music ⓘ songwriting ⓘ |
| genre |
jazz
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popular music ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notability | best known for co-writing the jazz standard "Body and Soul" ⓘ |
| notableWork | Body and Soul ⓘ |
| occupation |
lyricist
ⓘ
songwriter ⓘ |
| workType |
film music
ⓘ
popular song ⓘ |
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: Robert Sour Description of subject: Robert Sour was an American lyricist best known for co-writing the jazz standard "Body and Soul" and contributing to popular songs and film music in the mid-20th century.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.