Eddie DeLange
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Eddie DeLange was an American lyricist and bandleader best known for co-writing popular standards of the 1930s and 1940s, including several hits with composer Jimmy Van Heusen.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Eddie DeLange canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5348245 — 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: Eddie DeLange Context triple: [Solitude, lyricist, Eddie DeLange]
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A.
Eddie Spears
Eddie Spears is a Native American actor known for his roles in film and television, particularly in Western and Indigenous-themed productions.
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B.
Roland Culver
Roland Culver was a British actor known for his polished, often aristocratic screen presence in mid-20th-century film, television, and theatre.
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C.
Abe Reles
Abe Reles was a notorious Brooklyn mobster and hitman who became infamous as a key government informant against the Murder, Inc. crime syndicate in the 1940s.
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D.
Ed Furillo
Ed Furillo is a tough, cynical middle-aged man grappling with a midlife crisis in the comedy film "City Slickers," where he joins friends on a cattle drive to rediscover purpose and meaning.
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E.
Lester Germer
Lester Germer was an American physicist best known for the Davisson–Germer experiment, which provided key evidence for the wave nature of electrons and helped confirm quantum mechanics.
- 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: Eddie DeLange Target entity description: Eddie DeLange was an American lyricist and bandleader best known for co-writing popular standards of the 1930s and 1940s, including several hits with composer Jimmy Van Heusen.
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A.
Eddie Spears
Eddie Spears is a Native American actor known for his roles in film and television, particularly in Western and Indigenous-themed productions.
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B.
Roland Culver
Roland Culver was a British actor known for his polished, often aristocratic screen presence in mid-20th-century film, television, and theatre.
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C.
Abe Reles
Abe Reles was a notorious Brooklyn mobster and hitman who became infamous as a key government informant against the Murder, Inc. crime syndicate in the 1940s.
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D.
Ed Furillo
Ed Furillo is a tough, cynical middle-aged man grappling with a midlife crisis in the comedy film "City Slickers," where he joins friends on a cattle drive to rediscover purpose and meaning.
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E.
Lester Germer
Lester Germer was an American physicist best known for the Davisson–Germer experiment, which provided key evidence for the wave nature of electrons and helped confirm quantum mechanics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bandleader
ⓘ
human ⓘ lyricist ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Forest Lawn Memorial Park NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1904-01-15 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1949-07-15 ⓘ |
| era |
1930s
ⓘ
1940s ⓘ |
| familyName | DeLange NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
bandleading
ⓘ
songwriting ⓘ |
| formed | Hudson–DeLange Orchestra NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
big band
ⓘ
jazz ⓘ popular music ⓘ |
| givenName | Eddie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPartIn | American popular songbook NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | co-writing popular standards of the 1930s and 1940s ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A String of Pearls
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
All the Way NERFINISHED ⓘ Darn That Dream NERFINISHED ⓘ Haunted Heart NERFINISHED ⓘ Heaven Can Wait NERFINISHED ⓘ Moonglow NERFINISHED ⓘ Shake Down the Stars NERFINISHED ⓘ Solitude NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
bandleader
ⓘ
lyricist ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
New York
NERFINISHED
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New York City ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
Los Angeles ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Marion Lane NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedWith |
Benny Goodman
NERFINISHED
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Duke Ellington NERFINISHED ⓘ Glenn Miller NERFINISHED ⓘ Jimmy Van Heusen NERFINISHED ⓘ Will Hudson 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: Eddie DeLange Description of subject: Eddie DeLange was an American lyricist and bandleader best known for co-writing popular standards of the 1930s and 1940s, including several hits with composer Jimmy Van Heusen.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.