Freddie Perren
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Freddie Perren was an American record producer, songwriter, and arranger known for his influential work in 1970s and 1980s soul, disco, and pop music, including hits for artists like the Jackson 5 and Gloria Gaynor.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Freddie Perren canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6269737 — 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: Freddie Perren Context triple: [Under the Blue Moon, producer, Freddie Perren]
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A.
Freddie Andrews
Freddie Andrews is a British businessman best known as the husband of Holly Branson, daughter of Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson.
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B.
Freddie Lewis
Freddie Lewis is a former American professional basketball guard best known for his standout play in the ABA, where he was a multiple-time All-Star and key contributor to several championship teams.
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C.
Jonny Keeling
Jonny Keeling is a British television producer known for his work on major BBC natural history documentaries.
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D.
Freddie Oversteegen
Freddie Oversteegen was a Dutch resistance fighter during World War II, known for her courageous sabotage and armed actions against Nazi occupiers as a teenager.
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E.
Freddie Beckmeier
Freddie Beckmeier is an American bassist and musician best known for his work with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band and as a former husband of actress and singer Katey Sagal.
- 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: Freddie Perren Target entity description: Freddie Perren was an American record producer, songwriter, and arranger known for his influential work in 1970s and 1980s soul, disco, and pop music, including hits for artists like the Jackson 5 and Gloria Gaynor.
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A.
Freddie Andrews
Freddie Andrews is a British businessman best known as the husband of Holly Branson, daughter of Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson.
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B.
Freddie Lewis
Freddie Lewis is a former American professional basketball guard best known for his standout play in the ABA, where he was a multiple-time All-Star and key contributor to several championship teams.
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C.
Jonny Keeling
Jonny Keeling is a British television producer known for his work on major BBC natural history documentaries.
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D.
Freddie Oversteegen
Freddie Oversteegen was a Dutch resistance fighter during World War II, known for her courageous sabotage and armed actions against Nazi occupiers as a teenager.
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E.
Freddie Beckmeier
Freddie Beckmeier is an American bassist and musician best known for his work with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band and as a former husband of actress and singer Katey Sagal.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
arranger
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human ⓘ record producer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activePeriod |
1970s
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1980s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Boyz II Men
NERFINISHED
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Gloria Gaynor NERFINISHED ⓘ Peaches & Herb NERFINISHED ⓘ Tavares NERFINISHED ⓘ The Jackson 5 NERFINISHED ⓘ The Miracles NERFINISHED ⓘ The Spinners NERFINISHED ⓘ The Sylvers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Grammy Award for Best Disco Recording NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceivedFor | I Will Survive NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | stroke ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1943-05-15 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2004-12-16 ⓘ |
| employer | Motown Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Perren NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Frederick James Perren NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
disco
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pop music ⓘ soul music ⓘ |
| givenName | Frederick NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf | The Corporation (Motown songwriting and production team) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
co-wrote and produced Gloria Gaynor’s hit single I Will Survive
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co-wrote and produced several early hits for The Jackson 5 ⓘ |
| notableWork |
ABC
NERFINISHED
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Boogie Fever NERFINISHED ⓘ Boogie Nights (production work association) ⓘ Dancing Machine NERFINISHED ⓘ Heaven Must Be Missing an Angel NERFINISHED ⓘ Heaven Must Be Missing an Angel (Tavares single) NERFINISHED ⓘ I Want You Back NERFINISHED ⓘ I Will Survive NERFINISHED ⓘ It’s So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday NERFINISHED ⓘ Love Machine NERFINISHED ⓘ Mama’s Pearl NERFINISHED ⓘ Reunited NERFINISHED ⓘ Shake Your Groove Thing NERFINISHED ⓘ The Love You Save NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
arranger
ⓘ
record producer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Englewood, New Jersey, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Los Angeles, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Christine Yarian Perren NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Freddie Perren Description of subject: Freddie Perren was an American record producer, songwriter, and arranger known for his influential work in 1970s and 1980s soul, disco, and pop music, including hits for artists like the Jackson 5 and Gloria Gaynor.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.