Johnny Tillotson
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Johnny Tillotson is an American singer-songwriter best known for his early 1960s pop and country hits such as "Poetry in Motion" and "It Keeps Right On a-Hurtin'."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Johnny Tillotson canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12815932 — 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: Johnny Tillotson Context triple: [Take Good Care of My Baby, hasCoverVersion, Johnny Tillotson]
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A.
Jerry Vale
Jerry Vale was an American traditional pop singer known for his smooth tenor voice and romantic ballads, particularly popular in the 1950s and 1960s.
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B.
Jerry Livingston
Jerry Livingston was an American songwriter and composer best known for his popular film and pop standards, including work on classic Disney songs.
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C.
Billy May
Billy May was an American composer, arranger, and trumpeter best known for his swinging big band arrangements and collaborations with artists like Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole.
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D.
Harold Livingston
Harold Livingston was an American novelist and television writer best known for writing the screenplay for the film "Star Trek: The Motion Picture."
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E.
Doc Pomus
Doc Pomus was an influential American blues singer and songwriter best known for co-writing numerous rock and roll and R&B classics in the 1950s and 1960s.
- 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: Johnny Tillotson Target entity description: Johnny Tillotson is an American singer-songwriter best known for his early 1960s pop and country hits such as "Poetry in Motion" and "It Keeps Right On a-Hurtin'."
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A.
Jerry Vale
Jerry Vale was an American traditional pop singer known for his smooth tenor voice and romantic ballads, particularly popular in the 1950s and 1960s.
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B.
Jerry Livingston
Jerry Livingston was an American songwriter and composer best known for his popular film and pop standards, including work on classic Disney songs.
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C.
Billy May
Billy May was an American composer, arranger, and trumpeter best known for his swinging big band arrangements and collaborations with artists like Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole.
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D.
Harold Livingston
Harold Livingston was an American novelist and television writer best known for writing the screenplay for the film "Star Trek: The Motion Picture."
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E.
Doc Pomus
Doc Pomus was an influential American blues singer and songwriter best known for co-writing numerous rock and roll and R&B classics in the 1950s and 1960s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.