Dennis Crosby
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Dennis Crosby was an American singer and actor best known as one of Bing Crosby’s sons who performed with his brothers as part of the Crosby family entertainment legacy.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dennis Crosby canonical | 18 |
| Bing Crosby’s son Dennis Crosby | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T838561 — 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: Dennis Crosby Context triple: [Bing Crosby, child, Dennis Crosby]
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A.
Gary Crosby
Gary Crosby was an American singer and actor, known both for his work in film, television, and music and for being the son of entertainer Bing Crosby.
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B.
Gerry Davis
Gerry Davis was a British television writer and script editor best known for his work on Doctor Who, including co-creating the iconic Cybermen.
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C.
Gerry Davis
Gerry Davis is a longtime Major League Baseball umpire known for working numerous postseason games and serving as a crew chief in multiple World Series.
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D.
Ray Collins
Ray Collins was an American character actor best known for his roles in classic films and radio, including his appearance in Orson Welles’s landmark film "Citizen Kane."
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E.
Tom Bell
Tom Bell was an American football official best known for serving as the referee in Super Bowl III.
- 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: Dennis Crosby Target entity description: Dennis Crosby was an American singer and actor best known as one of Bing Crosby’s sons who performed with his brothers as part of the Crosby family entertainment legacy.
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A.
Gary Crosby
Gary Crosby was an American singer and actor, known both for his work in film, television, and music and for being the son of entertainer Bing Crosby.
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B.
Gerry Davis
Gerry Davis was a British television writer and script editor best known for his work on Doctor Who, including co-creating the iconic Cybermen.
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C.
Gerry Davis
Gerry Davis is a longtime Major League Baseball umpire known for working numerous postseason games and serving as a crew chief in multiple World Series.
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D.
Ray Collins
Ray Collins was an American character actor best known for his roles in classic films and radio, including his appearance in Orson Welles’s landmark film "Citizen Kane."
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E.
Tom Bell
Tom Bell was an American football official best known for serving as the referee in Super Bowl III.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American
ⓘ
actor ⓘ human ⓘ singer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | White American ⓘ |
| familyName | Crosby ⓘ |
| father | Bing Crosby ⓘ |
| givenName | Dennis ⓘ |
| hasRelative |
Harry Crosby
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Mary Crosby ⓘ Nathaniel Crosby ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mother | Dixie Lee ⓘ |
| notableFamily | Crosby family ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being one of Bing Crosby’s sons
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singing and acting in the mid-20th century ⓘ |
| notableWork | performances with the Crosby Brothers ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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singer ⓘ |
| partOf | Crosby family entertainment legacy ⓘ |
| performerIn | Crosby Brothers vocal group ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sibling |
Gary Crosby
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Lindsay Crosby ⓘ Phillip Crosby ⓘ |
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: Dennis Crosby Description of subject: Dennis Crosby was an American singer and actor best known as one of Bing Crosby’s sons who performed with his brothers as part of the Crosby family entertainment legacy.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Holy Cross Cemetery
linked to: Dennis Crosby
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)
subject linked to:
Crosby Brothers vocal group
subject linked to:
Crosby Brothers vocal group