Sylvester Bradford
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Sylvester Bradford was an American songwriter best known for co-writing the classic doo-wop ballad "Tears on My Pillow," popularized by Little Anthony and the Imperials.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sylvester Bradford canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T23191395 — 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: Sylvester Bradford Context triple: [Tears on My Pillow, writer, Sylvester Bradford]
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A.
Sylvester Smith
Sylvester Smith is a person known primarily as the sibling of Sophia Smith.
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B.
William Freeborn
William Freeborn was a 19th-century American pioneer and politician in Minnesota, after whom Freeborn County is named.
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C.
Gridley Bryant
Gridley Bryant was a 19th-century American civil engineer best known for pioneering early railroad engineering and construction techniques in the United States.
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D.
Bayard Bradford
Bayard Bradford is a fictional character known primarily as the husband of Iris Carrington in the soap opera "Another World."
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E.
Henry Baldwin
Henry Baldwin was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in the early 19th century, known for his often idiosyncratic and independent judicial opinions.
- 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: Sylvester Bradford Target entity description: Sylvester Bradford was an American songwriter best known for co-writing the classic doo-wop ballad "Tears on My Pillow," popularized by Little Anthony and the Imperials.
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A.
Sylvester Smith
Sylvester Smith is a person known primarily as the sibling of Sophia Smith.
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B.
William Freeborn
William Freeborn was a 19th-century American pioneer and politician in Minnesota, after whom Freeborn County is named.
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C.
Gridley Bryant
Gridley Bryant was a 19th-century American civil engineer best known for pioneering early railroad engineering and construction techniques in the United States.
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D.
Bayard Bradford
Bayard Bradford is a fictional character known primarily as the husband of Iris Carrington in the soap opera "Another World."
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E.
Henry Baldwin
Henry Baldwin was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in the early 19th century, known for his often idiosyncratic and independent judicial opinions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.