Bob Merrill
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Bob Merrill was an American songwriter and lyricist best known for his work on Broadway musicals and popular songs in the mid-20th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bob Merrill canonical | 31 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1129564 — 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: Bob Merrill Context triple: [Funny Girl, lyricsBy, Bob Merrill]
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A.
Gordon MacRae
Gordon MacRae was an American actor and singer best known for his leading roles in classic Hollywood film musicals such as "Oklahoma!" and "Carousel."
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B.
Mel Tormé
Mel Tormé was an American jazz singer, composer, and actor, celebrated for his smooth vocal style and known as "The Velvet Fog."
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C.
Perry Como
Perry Como was an American singer and television personality renowned for his smooth baritone voice, relaxed crooning style, and decades-long presence as a popular music and TV star in the mid-20th century.
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D.
Bobby Darin
Bobby Darin was an American singer, songwriter, and actor known for his versatile pop, jazz, and rock performances, with hits like "Mack the Knife" and "Beyond the Sea."
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E.
Ray Kaskey
Ray Kaskey is an American sculptor best known for creating large-scale public monuments and architectural sculptures, including the bronze eagles and wreaths at the National World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C.
- 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: Bob Merrill Target entity description: Bob Merrill was an American songwriter and lyricist best known for his work on Broadway musicals and popular songs in the mid-20th century.
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A.
Gordon MacRae
Gordon MacRae was an American actor and singer best known for his leading roles in classic Hollywood film musicals such as "Oklahoma!" and "Carousel."
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B.
Mel Tormé
Mel Tormé was an American jazz singer, composer, and actor, celebrated for his smooth vocal style and known as "The Velvet Fog."
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C.
Perry Como
Perry Como was an American singer and television personality renowned for his smooth baritone voice, relaxed crooning style, and decades-long presence as a popular music and TV star in the mid-20th century.
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D.
Bobby Darin
Bobby Darin was an American singer, songwriter, and actor known for his versatile pop, jazz, and rock performances, with hits like "Mack the Knife" and "Beyond the Sea."
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E.
Ray Kaskey
Ray Kaskey is an American sculptor best known for creating large-scale public monuments and architectural sculptures, including the bronze eagles and wreaths at the National World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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lyricist ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activePeriod | mid-20th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Broadway musical
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popular song ⓘ |
| genre |
musical theatre
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popular music ⓘ |
| influencedGenre |
American musical theatre
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American popular song ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
writing hit popular songs in the 1950s
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writing lyrics and songs for Broadway musicals ⓘ |
| notableSong |
(How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window?
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Don't Rain on My Parade ⓘ
linked to:
Don’t Rain on My Parade
If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd've Baked a Cake ⓘ Love Makes the World Go 'Round ⓘ Mambo Italiano ⓘ People ⓘ |
| notableWork |
(How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window?
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Breakfast at Tiffany's (stage musical) ⓘ
linked to:
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1966 musical)
Carnival! ⓘ Don't Rain on My Parade ⓘ
linked to:
Don’t Rain on My Parade
Funny Girl ⓘ
linked to:
Funny Girl (stage musical)
Henry, Sweet Henry ⓘ If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd've Baked a Cake ⓘ Love Makes the World Go 'Round ⓘ Mambo Italiano ⓘ New Girl in Town ⓘ People ⓘ Take Me Along ⓘ The Kid ⓘ |
| occupation |
composer
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lyricist ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| workedOn |
lyrics for the musical Carnival!
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original score for the musical Funny Girl ⓘ songs for the musical Breakfast at Tiffany's (stage adaptation) ⓘ songs for the musical Henry, Sweet Henry ⓘ songs for the musical New Girl in Town ⓘ songs for the musical Take Me Along ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Broadway
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Bob Merrill Description of subject: Bob Merrill was an American songwriter and lyricist best known for his work on Broadway musicals and popular songs in the mid-20th century.
Referenced by (31)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.