Phillip Crosby
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Phillip Crosby was an American actor and singer best known as one of Bing Crosby’s twin sons who appeared in films and television during the mid-20th century.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Phillip Crosby canonical | 18 |
| Philip Crosby | 2 |
| Philip B. Crosby | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T838560 — 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: Phillip Crosby Context triple: [Bing Crosby, child, Phillip Crosby]
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A.
William S. Knudsen
William S. Knudsen was a Danish-American automotive executive and industrialist who played a key role in organizing U.S. mass production for World War II.
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B.
Kenneth C. Royall
Kenneth C. Royall was an American lawyer, military officer, and politician who served as the last U.S. Secretary of War before becoming the first Secretary of the Army.
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C.
Walter Powell
Walter Powell was an American entrepreneur best known as the founder of Powell’s City of Books, one of the world’s largest independent bookstores in Portland, Oregon.
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D.
Norman R. Augustine
Norman R. Augustine is an American aerospace engineer, business executive, and former CEO of Lockheed Martin known for his leadership in the defense industry and influential roles in national science and technology policy.
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E.
Alfred A. Cohn
Alfred A. Cohn was an American screenwriter and title writer of the silent and early sound film era, best known for his work on influential films such as The Jazz Singer.
- 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: Phillip Crosby Target entity description: Phillip Crosby was an American actor and singer best known as one of Bing Crosby’s twin sons who appeared in films and television during the mid-20th century.
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A.
William S. Knudsen
William S. Knudsen was a Danish-American automotive executive and industrialist who played a key role in organizing U.S. mass production for World War II.
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B.
Kenneth C. Royall
Kenneth C. Royall was an American lawyer, military officer, and politician who served as the last U.S. Secretary of War before becoming the first Secretary of the Army.
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C.
Walter Powell
Walter Powell was an American entrepreneur best known as the founder of Powell’s City of Books, one of the world’s largest independent bookstores in Portland, Oregon.
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D.
Norman R. Augustine
Norman R. Augustine is an American aerospace engineer, business executive, and former CEO of Lockheed Martin known for his leadership in the defense industry and influential roles in national science and technology policy.
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E.
Alfred A. Cohn
Alfred A. Cohn was an American screenwriter and title writer of the silent and early sound film era, best known for his work on influential films such as The Jazz Singer.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
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human ⓘ singer ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1970s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1950 ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | heart attack ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1934-07-13 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2004-01-13 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Irish American ⓘ |
| father | Bing Crosby ⓘ |
| hasTwin | Dennis Crosby ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | The Crosby Boys ⓘ |
| mother | Dixie Lee ⓘ |
| notableFamily | Crosby family ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Duffy’s Tavern (film)
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The Bing Crosby Show (TV appearances) ⓘ |
| occupation |
film actor
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singer ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Los Angeles, California, United States ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, United States ⓘ |
| relative |
Joe E. Brown
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Ruth Hussey ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sibling |
Dennis Crosby
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Gary Crosby ⓘ Lindsay Crosby ⓘ |
| spouse | Sandra Jolley ⓘ |
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: Phillip Crosby Description of subject: Phillip Crosby was an American actor and singer best known as one of Bing Crosby’s twin sons who appeared in films and television during the mid-20th century.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
The Crosby Boys (singing group)
subject linked to:
The Crosby Boys (singing group)
subject linked to:
The Crosby Boys (act)
subject linked to:
The Crosby Boys (act)
linked to: Phillip Crosby
subject linked to:
Crosby Brothers vocal group
subject linked to:
Crosby Brothers vocal group
linked to: Phillip Crosby
linked to: Phillip Crosby