"The Gene Krupa Story"
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"The Gene Krupa Story" is a 1959 biographical film dramatizing the life and career of pioneering jazz drummer Gene Krupa.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Gene Krupa Story | 2 |
| "The Gene Krupa Story" canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8222265 — 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: "The Gene Krupa Story" Context triple: [Gene Krupa, portrayedIn, "The Gene Krupa Story"]
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A.
The Glenn Miller Story
The Glenn Miller Story is a 1954 biographical film that dramatizes the life and career of famed big-band leader Glenn Miller, starring James Stewart in the title role.
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B.
The Sunshine Boys
The Sunshine Boys is a 1975 comedy film, based on Neil Simon’s play, about two feuding former vaudeville partners reluctantly reunited for a television special.
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C.
Make Mine Music
Make Mine Music is a 1946 Walt Disney animated musical anthology film composed of ten segments set to popular and classical music.
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D.
Lady, Be Good
"Lady, Be Good" is a 1924 Broadway musical comedy with music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ira Gershwin, best known for its hit songs and for featuring Fred Astaire in one of his early major stage roles.
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E.
The Gang’s All Here
"The Gang’s All Here" is a hard rock/heavy metal studio album by American band Skid Row, marking their return with new vocalist Erik Grönwall.
- 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: "The Gene Krupa Story" Target entity description: "The Gene Krupa Story" is a 1959 biographical film dramatizing the life and career of pioneering jazz drummer Gene Krupa.
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A.
The Glenn Miller Story
The Glenn Miller Story is a 1954 biographical film that dramatizes the life and career of famed big-band leader Glenn Miller, starring James Stewart in the title role.
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B.
The Sunshine Boys
The Sunshine Boys is a 1975 comedy film, based on Neil Simon’s play, about two feuding former vaudeville partners reluctantly reunited for a television special.
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C.
Make Mine Music
Make Mine Music is a 1946 Walt Disney animated musical anthology film composed of ten segments set to popular and classical music.
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D.
Lady, Be Good
"Lady, Be Good" is a 1924 Broadway musical comedy with music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ira Gershwin, best known for its hit songs and for featuring Fred Astaire in one of his early major stage roles.
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E.
The Gang’s All Here
"The Gang’s All Here" is a hard rock/heavy metal studio album by American band Skid Row, marking their return with new vocalist Erik Grönwall.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| basedOn | life of Gene Krupa ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Charles Lawton Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | Leith Stevens NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| depicts |
big band era
ⓘ
swing music ⓘ |
| depictsGenre | jazz ⓘ |
| depictsProfession | drummer ⓘ |
| director | Don Weis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Columbia Pictures ⓘ |
| editor | Viola Lawrence NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| format | black-and-white film ⓘ |
| genre |
biographical film
ⓘ
drama film ⓘ musical film ⓘ |
| hasMusicPerformer |
Anita O'Day
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Gene Krupa NERFINISHED ⓘ Red Nichols NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTitleCharacter | Gene Krupa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainSubject | Gene Krupa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
personal struggles of Gene Krupa
ⓘ
rise to fame of Gene Krupa ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| portrays | Gene Krupa as pioneering jazz drummer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Phil Waxman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Columbia Pictures ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1959 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1959 ⓘ |
| runtime | approx. 101 minutes ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Orin Jannings
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Phil Shuken NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInPeriod |
1930s
ⓘ
1940s ⓘ |
| starring |
James Darren
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lawrence Dobkin NERFINISHED ⓘ Red Nichols NERFINISHED ⓘ Sal Mineo NERFINISHED ⓘ Susan Kohner NERFINISHED ⓘ Yvonne Lime 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: "The Gene Krupa Story" Description of subject: "The Gene Krupa Story" is a 1959 biographical film dramatizing the life and career of pioneering jazz drummer Gene Krupa.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Gene Krupa Story
this entity surface form:
The Gene Krupa Story