Con Conrad
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Con Conrad was an American songwriter and composer best known for his popular tunes of the 1920s and 1930s, including several enduring jazz and pop standards.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Con Conrad canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9327304 — 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: Con Conrad Context triple: [The Continental, musicBy, Con Conrad]
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A.
Liman von Sanders
Liman von Sanders was a German general best known for commanding Ottoman forces during World War I, particularly in the defense of Gallipoli.
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B.
Col Collon
Col Collon is a high mountain pass in the Pennine Alps on the border between Switzerland and Italy, used historically as a route through the alpine terrain.
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C.
William Sims
William Sims was a prominent U.S. Navy admiral and naval reformer known for modernizing gunnery and leading American naval forces in European waters during World War I.
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D.
Robert B. Anderson
Robert B. Anderson was an American businessman, lawyer, and politician who served as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
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E.
Lucian Truscott
Lucian Truscott was a highly regarded U.S. Army general of World War II known for his aggressive leadership in the Italian Campaign and later commands in major European operations.
- 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: Con Conrad Target entity description: Con Conrad was an American songwriter and composer best known for his popular tunes of the 1920s and 1930s, including several enduring jazz and pop standards.
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A.
Liman von Sanders
Liman von Sanders was a German general best known for commanding Ottoman forces during World War I, particularly in the defense of Gallipoli.
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B.
Col Collon
Col Collon is a high mountain pass in the Pennine Alps on the border between Switzerland and Italy, used historically as a route through the alpine terrain.
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C.
William Sims
William Sims was a prominent U.S. Navy admiral and naval reformer known for modernizing gunnery and leading American naval forces in European waters during World War I.
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D.
Robert B. Anderson
Robert B. Anderson was an American businessman, lawyer, and politician who served as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
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E.
Lucian Truscott
Lucian Truscott was a highly regarded U.S. Army general of World War II known for his aggressive leadership in the Italian Campaign and later commands in major European operations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
composer
ⓘ
human ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1930s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1910s ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Academy Award for Best Original Song NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | stroke ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
Archie Gottler
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Benny Davis NERFINISHED ⓘ Herb Magidson NERFINISHED ⓘ J. Russel Robinson NERFINISHED ⓘ Joe Young NERFINISHED ⓘ Leo Robin NERFINISHED ⓘ Walter Donaldson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1891-06-18 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1938-09-28 ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film music
ⓘ
musical theatre ⓘ popular songwriting ⓘ |
| genre |
jazz
ⓘ
popular music ⓘ show tune ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | co-wrote "The Continental," first song to win the Academy Award for Best Original Song ⓘ |
| notableFor |
popular songs of the 1920s
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popular songs of the 1930s ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Lonesome and Sorry
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ma! He's Making Eyes at Me NERFINISHED ⓘ Margie NERFINISHED ⓘ Memory Lane NERFINISHED ⓘ Singin' the Blues NERFINISHED ⓘ The Continental NERFINISHED ⓘ You Gotta See Mama Ev'ry Night (Or You Can't See Mama at All) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
composer
ⓘ
lyricist ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Manhattan
ⓘ
New York NERFINISHED ⓘ New York City ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
California, United States
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surface form:
California
Los Angeles ⓘ United States of America ⓘ Van Nuys NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workedOn |
Broadway musicals
ⓘ
film scores ⓘ |
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: Con Conrad Description of subject: Con Conrad was an American songwriter and composer best known for his popular tunes of the 1920s and 1930s, including several enduring jazz and pop standards.
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.