Fred Ebb
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Fred Ebb was an American lyricist best known for his long-running musical theater partnership with composer John Kander, creating shows such as "Cabaret" and "Chicago."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Fred Ebb canonical | 64 |
| Kander and Ebb | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3597100 — 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: Fred Ebb Context triple: [Harold Prince, workedWith, Fred Ebb]
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A.
Alan Jay Lerner
Alan Jay Lerner was an American lyricist and librettist best known for his collaborations with composer Frederick Loewe on classic Broadway and film musicals such as "My Fair Lady" and "Camelot."
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B.
Stephen Schwartz
Stephen Schwartz is an American composer and lyricist renowned for his work in musical theatre and film, including the scores and songs for productions such as "Wicked," "Godspell," and Disney's "Pocahontas" and "The Hunchback of Notre Dame."
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C.
Howard Ashman
Howard Ashman was an American lyricist, playwright, and producer best known for his acclaimed work on Disney animated musicals such as "The Little Mermaid," "Beauty and the Beast," and "Aladdin."
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D.
Sheldon Harnick
Sheldon Harnick was an American lyricist best known for his long collaboration with composer Jerry Bock on classic Broadway musicals, including the landmark show Fiddler on the Roof.
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E.
Jerry Bock
Jerry Bock was an American musical theatre composer best known for his Tony Award-winning score for the landmark Broadway musical "Fiddler on the Roof."
- 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: Fred Ebb Target entity description: Fred Ebb was an American lyricist best known for his long-running musical theater partnership with composer John Kander, creating shows such as "Cabaret" and "Chicago."
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A.
Alan Jay Lerner
Alan Jay Lerner was an American lyricist and librettist best known for his collaborations with composer Frederick Loewe on classic Broadway and film musicals such as "My Fair Lady" and "Camelot."
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B.
Stephen Schwartz
Stephen Schwartz is an American composer and lyricist renowned for his work in musical theatre and film, including the scores and songs for productions such as "Wicked," "Godspell," and Disney's "Pocahontas" and "The Hunchback of Notre Dame."
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C.
Howard Ashman
Howard Ashman was an American lyricist, playwright, and producer best known for his acclaimed work on Disney animated musicals such as "The Little Mermaid," "Beauty and the Beast," and "Aladdin."
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D.
Sheldon Harnick
Sheldon Harnick was an American lyricist best known for his long collaboration with composer Jerry Bock on classic Broadway musicals, including the landmark show Fiddler on the Roof.
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E.
Jerry Bock
Jerry Bock was an American musical theatre composer best known for his Tony Award-winning score for the landmark Broadway musical "Fiddler on the Roof."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Fred Ebb Description of subject: Fred Ebb was an American lyricist best known for his long-running musical theater partnership with composer John Kander, creating shows such as "Cabaret" and "Chicago."
Referenced by (66)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Fred Ebb
linked to: Fred Ebb
subject linked to:
Curtains (musical)
subject linked to:
film "New York, New York"
subject linked to:
Chicago (film musical)
subject linked to:
Billy Flynn in Chicago
subject linked to:
The Flame