Martha Tilton
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Martha Tilton was an American popular singer best known as a featured vocalist with Benny Goodman's band during the swing era of the late 1930s and 1940s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Martha Tilton canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11431344 — 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: Martha Tilton Context triple: ["I'll Walk Alone", hasNotableRecordingBy, Martha Tilton]
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A.
Martha Tilson
Martha Tilson is a vocalist best known for her work with the influential English post-punk band A Certain Ratio.
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B.
Martha Dix
Martha Dix was the wife and frequent model of German painter Otto Dix, known from many of his portraits and family scenes.
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C.
Martha Hunt
Martha Hunt is an American fashion model best known for her work with Victoria’s Secret, including serving as a Victoria’s Secret Angel.
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D.
Martha Hudson
Martha Hudson is an American sprinter who was one of the top female track athletes of her era, notably competing internationally under coach Ed Temple at Tennessee State University.
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E.
Martha Stevens
Martha Stevens is a notable individual distinguished enough to be specifically recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Stevens.
- 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: Martha Tilton Target entity description: Martha Tilton was an American popular singer best known as a featured vocalist with Benny Goodman's band during the swing era of the late 1930s and 1940s.
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A.
Martha Tilson
Martha Tilson is a vocalist best known for her work with the influential English post-punk band A Certain Ratio.
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B.
Martha Dix
Martha Dix was the wife and frequent model of German painter Otto Dix, known from many of his portraits and family scenes.
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C.
Martha Hunt
Martha Hunt is an American fashion model best known for her work with Victoria’s Secret, including serving as a Victoria’s Secret Angel.
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D.
Martha Hudson
Martha Hudson is an American sprinter who was one of the top female track athletes of her era, notably competing internationally under coach Ed Temple at Tennessee State University.
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E.
Martha Stevens
Martha Stevens is a notable individual distinguished enough to be specifically recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Stevens.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American singer
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big band singer ⓘ human ⓘ jazz singer ⓘ singer ⓘ |
| activePeriod |
1930s
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1940s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Artie Shaw
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Benny Goodman ⓘ Benny Goodman Orchestra ⓘ Capitol Records ⓘ Johnny Mercer ⓘ |
| birthName | Martha Tilton ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
entertainment industry
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music industry ⓘ |
| genre |
jazz
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popular music ⓘ swing music ⓘ |
| hasGender | female ⓘ |
| instrument | voice ⓘ |
| languageOfPerformance | English ⓘ |
| movement | swing era ⓘ |
| name | Martha Tilton ⓘ |
| notableFor | being a featured vocalist with Benny Goodman’s band during the swing era ⓘ |
| notableRole | featured vocalist with Benny Goodman’s band ⓘ |
| notableSong |
A Stranger in Town
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And the Angels Sing ⓘ I’ll Walk Alone ⓘ
linked to:
I'll Walk Alone
Moon Dreams ⓘ |
| notableWork | And the Angels Sing ⓘ |
| occupation | singer ⓘ |
| partOf | American big band tradition ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Capitol Records
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Coral Records ⓘ Decca Records ⓘ |
| vocalType | popular vocalist ⓘ |
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: Martha Tilton Description of subject: Martha Tilton was an American popular singer best known as a featured vocalist with Benny Goodman's band during the swing era of the late 1930s and 1940s.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.