Kishore Kumar
E491950
Indian playback singer
comedian
film actor
film director
film producer
music composer
person
screenwriter
Kishore Kumar was a legendary Indian playback singer, actor, and music composer renowned for his versatile voice and iconic songs in Hindi cinema.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kishore Kumar canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5075746 — 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: Kishore Kumar Context triple: [Khandwa, hasNotablePerson, Kishore Kumar]
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A.
Mukesh
Mukesh is a common Indian male given name, notably borne by prominent figures such as industrialist Mukesh Ambani and legendary playback singer Mukesh Chand Mathur.
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B.
Asha Bhosle
Asha Bhosle is a legendary Indian playback singer renowned for her versatile voice and vast repertoire across numerous film and non-film songs in multiple languages.
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C.
Deenanath Mangeshkar
Deenanath Mangeshkar was an Indian classical singer, stage actor, and theatre producer, best known as the patriarch of the Mangeshkar musical family.
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D.
Lata Mangeshkar
Lata Mangeshkar was a legendary Indian playback singer whose career spanned over seven decades and who became one of the most recorded and revered voices in the history of Indian music.
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E.
Shevanti Mangeshkar
Shevanti Mangeshkar was the mother of legendary Indian playback singer Lata Mangeshkar and a member of the prominent Mangeshkar musical family.
- 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: Kishore Kumar Target entity description: Kishore Kumar was a legendary Indian playback singer, actor, and music composer renowned for his versatile voice and iconic songs in Hindi cinema.
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A.
Mukesh
Mukesh is a common Indian male given name, notably borne by prominent figures such as industrialist Mukesh Ambani and legendary playback singer Mukesh Chand Mathur.
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B.
Asha Bhosle
Asha Bhosle is a legendary Indian playback singer renowned for her versatile voice and vast repertoire across numerous film and non-film songs in multiple languages.
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C.
Deenanath Mangeshkar
Deenanath Mangeshkar was an Indian classical singer, stage actor, and theatre producer, best known as the patriarch of the Mangeshkar musical family.
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D.
Lata Mangeshkar
Lata Mangeshkar was a legendary Indian playback singer whose career spanned over seven decades and who became one of the most recorded and revered voices in the history of Indian music.
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E.
Shevanti Mangeshkar
Shevanti Mangeshkar was the mother of legendary Indian playback singer Lata Mangeshkar and a member of the prominent Mangeshkar musical family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (63)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Indian playback singer
ⓘ
comedian ⓘ film actor ⓘ film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ music composer ⓘ person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1987 ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1940s ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Kishore Da NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Filmfare Award for Best Male Playback Singer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Khandwa, Madhya Pradesh, India NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | heart attack ⓘ |
| child |
Amit Kumar
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sumit Kumar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | India ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1929-08-04 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1987-10-13 ⓘ |
| fullName | Abhas Kumar Ganguly NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
film music
ⓘ
playback singing ⓘ |
| industry | Hindi cinema NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
Assamese
ⓘ
Bengali ⓘ Gujarati NERFINISHED ⓘ Hindi ⓘ Kannada NERFINISHED ⓘ Malayalam NERFINISHED ⓘ Marathi NERFINISHED ⓘ Odia ⓘ Urdu ⓘ |
| notableFor | versatile voice and yodeling style ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Chingari Koi Bhadke
NERFINISHED
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Humein Tumse Pyaar Kitna NERFINISHED ⓘ Khaike Paan Banaras Wala NERFINISHED ⓘ Kuch To Log Kahenge NERFINISHED ⓘ Mere Sapno Ki Rani NERFINISHED ⓘ O Saathi Re NERFINISHED ⓘ Pag Ghunghroo Baandh NERFINISHED ⓘ Pal Pal Dil Ke Paas NERFINISHED ⓘ Roop Tera Mastana NERFINISHED ⓘ Yeh Jo Mohabbat Hai NERFINISHED ⓘ Yeh Shaam Mastani NERFINISHED ⓘ Zindagi Ek Safar Hai Suhana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ lyricist ⓘ music composer ⓘ playback singer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Khandwa, Central Provinces, British India NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Bombay, Maharashtra, India NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Hinduism ⓘ |
| sibling |
Anup Kumar
NERFINISHED
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Ashok Kumar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse |
Leena Chandavarkar
NERFINISHED
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Madhubala NERFINISHED ⓘ Ruma Guha Thakurta NERFINISHED ⓘ Yogeeta Bali NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stageName | Kishore Kumar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedIn | Bollywood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Kishore Kumar Description of subject: Kishore Kumar was a legendary Indian playback singer, actor, and music composer renowned for his versatile voice and iconic songs in Hindi cinema.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.