The Harry Belafonte Show
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The Harry Belafonte Show was a television variety program hosted by singer and activist Harry Belafonte, featuring music, dance, and guest performances.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Special with Harry Belafonte (1968 NBC TV special) | 1 |
| The Harry Belafonte Show canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1872451 — 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: The Harry Belafonte Show Context triple: [Harry Belafonte, notableWork, The Harry Belafonte Show]
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A.
The Garry Moore Show
The Garry Moore Show was a popular American television variety series of the 1950s and 1960s known for its comedy sketches, musical performances, and for helping launch the career of Carol Burnett.
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B.
The Judy Garland Show
The Judy Garland Show was an American musical variety television series in the early 1960s that showcased Judy Garland’s singing, comedy, and guest performances.
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C.
The Gregory Hines Show
The Gregory Hines Show is a short-lived 1990s American sitcom starring dancer and actor Gregory Hines as a widowed father balancing single parenthood and his career.
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D.
The Leslie Uggams Show
The Leslie Uggams Show was a short-lived 1969 American musical variety television series starring singer and actress Leslie Uggams, notable as one of the first network variety shows led by a Black woman.
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E.
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
"Tonight Starring Jack Paar" was an early and influential incarnation of NBC’s late-night talk show franchise, hosted by Jack Paar in the late 1950s and early 1960s and known for its conversational, often emotionally candid style.
- 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: The Harry Belafonte Show Target entity description: The Harry Belafonte Show was a television variety program hosted by singer and activist Harry Belafonte, featuring music, dance, and guest performances.
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A.
The Garry Moore Show
The Garry Moore Show was a popular American television variety series of the 1950s and 1960s known for its comedy sketches, musical performances, and for helping launch the career of Carol Burnett.
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B.
The Judy Garland Show
The Judy Garland Show was an American musical variety television series in the early 1960s that showcased Judy Garland’s singing, comedy, and guest performances.
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C.
The Gregory Hines Show
The Gregory Hines Show is a short-lived 1990s American sitcom starring dancer and actor Gregory Hines as a widowed father balancing single parenthood and his career.
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D.
The Leslie Uggams Show
The Leslie Uggams Show was a short-lived 1969 American musical variety television series starring singer and actress Leslie Uggams, notable as one of the first network variety shows led by a Black woman.
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E.
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
"Tonight Starring Jack Paar" was an early and influential incarnation of NBC’s late-night talk show franchise, hosted by Jack Paar in the late 1950s and early 1960s and known for its conversational, often emotionally candid style.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
television program
ⓘ
television variety show ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Harry Belafonte ⓘ |
| basedOn | musical performances by Harry Belafonte ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| creativeFocus |
dance
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music ⓘ variety entertainment ⓘ |
| features |
dance performances
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guest performances ⓘ music performances ⓘ |
| genre | variety show ⓘ |
| hasContent |
comedy or spoken segments
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dance routines ⓘ guest artist appearances ⓘ live musical numbers ⓘ |
| hasFormat | variety format ⓘ |
| hostedBy | Harry Belafonte ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Harry Belafonte ⓘ |
| notableFor |
combining music and social commentary
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showcasing African American performers ⓘ |
| presenter | Harry Belafonte ⓘ |
| primaryAudience | television viewers in the United States ⓘ |
| starred | Harry Belafonte ⓘ |
| subjectOf | television history discussions ⓘ |
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: The Harry Belafonte Show Description of subject: The Harry Belafonte Show was a television variety program hosted by singer and activist Harry Belafonte, featuring music, dance, and guest performances.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Special with Harry Belafonte (1968 NBC TV special)