Jo Sullivan Loesser
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Jo Sullivan Loesser was an American soprano and Broadway actress best known for her work in mid-20th-century musical theatre and for championing the legacy of composer Frank Loesser.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jo Sullivan Loesser canonical | 2 |
| Loesser | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10568373 — 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: Jo Sullivan Loesser Context triple: [Frank Loesser, spouse, Jo Sullivan Loesser]
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A.
Frank Loesser
Frank Loesser was an American songwriter and composer best known for his work on Broadway musicals such as "Guys and Dolls" and "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying," as well as numerous popular standards.
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B.
Jule Styne
Jule Styne was a prolific American composer best known for his Broadway and film musical scores, including classics like "Gypsy" and "Funny Girl."
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C.
Meredith Willson
Meredith Willson was an American composer, songwriter, conductor, and playwright best known for creating the hit Broadway musical "The Music Man."
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D.
Jimmy Van Heusen
Jimmy Van Heusen was an American composer and songwriter renowned for his prolific work in film and popular music, including numerous standards written for Frank Sinatra and multiple Academy Award–winning songs.
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E.
Alan Jay Lerner
Alan Jay Lerner was an American lyricist and librettist best known for his collaborations with composer Frederick Loewe on classic Broadway and film musicals such as "My Fair Lady" and "Camelot."
- 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: Jo Sullivan Loesser Target entity description: Jo Sullivan Loesser was an American soprano and Broadway actress best known for her work in mid-20th-century musical theatre and for championing the legacy of composer Frank Loesser.
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A.
Frank Loesser
Frank Loesser was an American songwriter and composer best known for his work on Broadway musicals such as "Guys and Dolls" and "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying," as well as numerous popular standards.
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B.
Jule Styne
Jule Styne was a prolific American composer best known for his Broadway and film musical scores, including classics like "Gypsy" and "Funny Girl."
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C.
Meredith Willson
Meredith Willson was an American composer, songwriter, conductor, and playwright best known for creating the hit Broadway musical "The Music Man."
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D.
Jimmy Van Heusen
Jimmy Van Heusen was an American composer and songwriter renowned for his prolific work in film and popular music, including numerous standards written for Frank Sinatra and multiple Academy Award–winning songs.
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E.
Alan Jay Lerner
Alan Jay Lerner was an American lyricist and librettist best known for his collaborations with composer Frederick Loewe on classic Broadway and film musicals such as "My Fair Lady" and "Camelot."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Broadway performer
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human ⓘ soprano ⓘ stage actress ⓘ |
| birthName | Elizabeth Josephine Sullivan ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | Frank Loesser ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName |
Loesser
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linked to:
Jo Sullivan Loesser
Sullivan ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
musical theatre
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opera ⓘ |
| genre | musical theatre ⓘ |
| givenName |
Elizabeth
ⓘ
Josephine ⓘ |
| languageOfPerformance | English ⓘ |
| name | Jo Sullivan Loesser ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| nickname | Jo ⓘ |
| notableFor |
championing the legacy of composer Frank Loesser
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performances in mid-20th-century American musical theatre ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Most Happy Fella ⓘ |
| occupation |
Broadway actress
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actress ⓘ singer ⓘ soprano ⓘ |
| performedIn |
The Most Happy Fella
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The Threepenny Opera ⓘ |
| performedOn | Broadway ⓘ |
| spouse | Frank Loesser ⓘ |
| voiceType | soprano ⓘ |
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: Jo Sullivan Loesser Description of subject: Jo Sullivan Loesser was an American soprano and Broadway actress best known for her work in mid-20th-century musical theatre and for championing the legacy of composer Frank Loesser.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Jo Sullivan Loesser