Richard Maltby Sr.
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Richard Maltby Sr. was an American musician, arranger, and bandleader best known for his work in jazz and popular music during the mid-20th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Richard Maltby Sr. canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7543096 — 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: Richard Maltby Sr. Context triple: [Maltby, hasNotableBearer, Richard Maltby Sr.]
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A.
Richard Maltby Jr.
Richard Maltby Jr. is an American lyricist and director best known for his work on Broadway musicals and musical revues such as "Ain't Misbehavin'" and "Fosse."
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B.
George Scales
George Scales was an American Negro league baseball infielder and manager known for his strong hitting and leadership during the 1920s and 1930s.
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C.
Bert Whalley
Bert Whalley was an English football coach and former player for Manchester United who tragically died in the 1958 Munich air disaster.
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D.
Ralph Hedley
Ralph Hedley was an English painter and woodcarver best known for his realistic depictions of everyday life in the North East of England.
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E.
Joby Harold
Joby Harold is a British screenwriter, director, and producer known for his work on genre films and television series, including projects like "King Arthur: Legend of the Sword" and "Obi-Wan Kenobi."
- 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: Richard Maltby Sr. Target entity description: Richard Maltby Sr. was an American musician, arranger, and bandleader best known for his work in jazz and popular music during the mid-20th century.
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A.
Richard Maltby Jr.
Richard Maltby Jr. is an American lyricist and director best known for his work on Broadway musicals and musical revues such as "Ain't Misbehavin'" and "Fosse."
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B.
George Scales
George Scales was an American Negro league baseball infielder and manager known for his strong hitting and leadership during the 1920s and 1930s.
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C.
Bert Whalley
Bert Whalley was an English football coach and former player for Manchester United who tragically died in the 1958 Munich air disaster.
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D.
Ralph Hedley
Ralph Hedley was an English painter and woodcarver best known for his realistic depictions of everyday life in the North East of England.
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E.
Joby Harold
Joby Harold is a British screenwriter, director, and producer known for his work on genre films and television series, including projects like "King Arthur: Legend of the Sword" and "Obi-Wan Kenobi."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
arranger
ⓘ
bandleader ⓘ composer ⓘ human ⓘ musician ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | mid-20th century ⓘ |
| child | Richard Maltby Jr. ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Maltby ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
jazz music
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popular music ⓘ |
| genre |
jazz
ⓘ
popular music ⓘ |
| givenName | Richard ⓘ |
| hasRole |
conductor
ⓘ
orchestrator ⓘ |
| instrument | trumpet ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Richard Maltby Sr. ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor | big band arrangements ⓘ |
| notableWork |
“St. Louis Blues Mambo”
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“The Man with the Golden Arm” (recording) ⓘ
linked to:
The Man with the Golden Arm
“Themes from ‘The Man with the Golden Arm’” ⓘ |
| occupation |
arranger
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bandleader ⓘ composer ⓘ musician ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Columbia Records
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RCA Victor ⓘ X Records ⓘ |
| relative | Richard Maltby Jr. ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| style |
big band
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swing ⓘ |
| workedAs |
orchestra leader
ⓘ
studio arranger ⓘ |
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: Richard Maltby Sr. Description of subject: Richard Maltby Sr. was an American musician, arranger, and bandleader best known for his work in jazz and popular music during the mid-20th century.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.