Myrl Alderman
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Myrl Alderman was an American pianist and arranger best known for his professional and personal association with singer Ruth Etting and his involvement in the notorious 1930s scandal with her ex-husband Moe Snyder.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Myrl Alderman canonical | 3 |
| Myrle Alderman | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5078218 — 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: Myrl Alderman Context triple: [Ruth Etting, spouse, Myrl Alderman]
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A.
Hartland Snyder
Hartland Snyder was an American theoretical physicist known for his early work on black hole physics and for being one of J. Robert Oppenheimer’s notable doctoral students.
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B.
Alfred Parland
Alfred Parland was a Russian architect of Scottish descent best known for designing St. Petersburg’s richly decorated Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood in the late 19th century.
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C.
Frank S. Nugent
Frank S. Nugent was an American screenwriter and former film critic best known for his influential collaborations with director John Ford on classic Westerns.
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D.
Rufus W. Peckham
Rufus W. Peckham was a U.S. Supreme Court Justice best known for authoring the opinion in Lochner v. New York and for his strong support of economic liberty and limited government regulation during the Lochner era.
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E.
James O. Incandenza
James O. Incandenza is a brilliant but troubled filmmaker, physicist, and founder of the Enfield Tennis Academy in David Foster Wallace’s novel Infinite Jest.
- 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: Myrl Alderman Target entity description: Myrl Alderman was an American pianist and arranger best known for his professional and personal association with singer Ruth Etting and his involvement in the notorious 1930s scandal with her ex-husband Moe Snyder.
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A.
Hartland Snyder
Hartland Snyder was an American theoretical physicist known for his early work on black hole physics and for being one of J. Robert Oppenheimer’s notable doctoral students.
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B.
Alfred Parland
Alfred Parland was a Russian architect of Scottish descent best known for designing St. Petersburg’s richly decorated Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood in the late 19th century.
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C.
Frank S. Nugent
Frank S. Nugent was an American screenwriter and former film critic best known for his influential collaborations with director John Ford on classic Westerns.
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D.
Rufus W. Peckham
Rufus W. Peckham was a U.S. Supreme Court Justice best known for authoring the opinion in Lochner v. New York and for his strong support of economic liberty and limited government regulation during the Lochner era.
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E.
James O. Incandenza
James O. Incandenza is a brilliant but troubled filmmaker, physicist, and founder of the Enfield Tennis Academy in David Foster Wallace’s novel Infinite Jest.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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music arranger ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer |
Ruth Etting (as accompanist and arranger)
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linked to:
Ruth Etting
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| genre | popular music ⓘ |
| notableFor |
involvement in 1930s scandal with Moe Snyder
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personal association with singer Ruth Etting ⓘ professional association with singer Ruth Etting ⓘ |
| occupation |
arranger
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pianist ⓘ |
| partner | Ruth Etting ⓘ |
| saidToBeTheSameAs |
Myrle Alderman
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linked to:
Myrl Alderman
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| significantEvent | shooting by Moe Snyder in the 1930s ⓘ |
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: Myrl Alderman Description of subject: Myrl Alderman was an American pianist and arranger best known for his professional and personal association with singer Ruth Etting and his involvement in the notorious 1930s scandal with her ex-husband Moe Snyder.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Myrl Alderman