Frankie Lymon
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Frankie Lymon was an American rock and roll and doo-wop singer best known as the teenage lead vocalist of Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers, whose hit "Why Do Fools Fall in Love" became a landmark of 1950s popular music.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Frankie Lymon canonical | 20 |
| Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers | 6 |
| Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9578391 — 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: Frankie Lymon Context triple: [Why Do Fools Fall in Love, mainSubject, Frankie Lymon]
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A.
Brian Hyland
Brian Hyland is an American pop singer best known for his 1960s novelty and teen pop hits such as "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini."
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B.
Freddy Cannon
Freddy Cannon is an American rock and roll singer best known for his energetic 1950s–60s hits like "Tallahassee Lassie" and "Palisades Park."
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C.
Maurice Williams
Maurice Williams is a writer best known for his work on the animated television special and series "Entergalactic," created by Kid Cudi and Kenya Barris.
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D.
Neil Sedaka
Neil Sedaka is an American pop singer, pianist, and songwriter best known for a string of hit singles in the late 1950s and 1960s, including "Calendar Girl" and "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do."
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E.
Bobby Rydell
Bobby Rydell was an American teen idol and pop singer of the late 1950s and early 1960s, known for hits like "Wild One" and "Volare."
- 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: Frankie Lymon Target entity description: Frankie Lymon was an American rock and roll and doo-wop singer best known as the teenage lead vocalist of Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers, whose hit "Why Do Fools Fall in Love" became a landmark of 1950s popular music.
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A.
Brian Hyland
Brian Hyland is an American pop singer best known for his 1960s novelty and teen pop hits such as "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini."
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B.
Freddy Cannon
Freddy Cannon is an American rock and roll singer best known for his energetic 1950s–60s hits like "Tallahassee Lassie" and "Palisades Park."
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C.
Maurice Williams
Maurice Williams is a writer best known for his work on the animated television special and series "Entergalactic," created by Kid Cudi and Kenya Barris.
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D.
Neil Sedaka
Neil Sedaka is an American pop singer, pianist, and songwriter best known for a string of hit singles in the late 1950s and 1960s, including "Calendar Girl" and "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do."
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E.
Bobby Rydell
Bobby Rydell was an American teen idol and pop singer of the late 1950s and early 1960s, known for hits like "Wild One" and "Volare."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
doo-wop musician
ⓘ
human ⓘ rock and roll musician ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Little Richard
ⓘ
The Teenagers ⓘ |
| birthName | Franklin Joseph Lymon ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Saint Raymond's Cemetery, The Bronx, New York, United States ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | heroin overdose ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1942-09-30 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1968-02-27 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
African American
ⓘ
linked to:
Black Americans
|
| familyName | Lymon ⓘ |
| genre |
doo-wop
ⓘ
rhythm and blues ⓘ rock and roll ⓘ |
| givenName | Franklin ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOnGenre | 1950s popular music ⓘ |
| heritage | American of African descent ⓘ |
| influenced |
Michael Jackson
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The Jackson 5 ⓘ rock and roll vocal groups ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers
ⓘ
linked to:
Frankie Lymon
|
| name | Frankie Lymon ⓘ |
| notableEvent | lead vocalist on 1956 hit Why Do Fools Fall in Love ⓘ |
| notableFor | being teenage lead singer of Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers ⓘ |
| notableSong |
Goody Goody
ⓘ
I Want You to Be My Girl ⓘ I’m Not a Juvenile Delinquent ⓘ Why Do Fools Fall in Love ⓘ |
| notableWork | Why Do Fools Fall in Love ⓘ |
| occupation |
singer
ⓘ
songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Harlem, New York City, New York, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Harlem
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| placeOfDeath |
New York City, New York, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
New York City
|
| recordLabel |
Gee Records
ⓘ
Roulette Records ⓘ |
| residence |
New York City, New York, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
New York City
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse |
Elizabeth Waters
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Emira Eagle ⓘ Zola Taylor ⓘ |
| vocalType | tenor ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1954–1968 ⓘ |
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: Frankie Lymon Description of subject: Frankie Lymon was an American rock and roll and doo-wop singer best known as the teenage lead vocalist of Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers, whose hit "Why Do Fools Fall in Love" became a landmark of 1950s popular music.
Referenced by (27)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Frankie Lymon
subject linked to:
Westview Cemetery, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
linked to: Frankie Lymon
subject linked to:
song "Why Do Fools Fall in Love"
linked to: Frankie Lymon
subject linked to:
song "Why Do Fools Fall in Love"
subject linked to:
song "Why Do Fools Fall in Love"
subject linked to:
song "Why Do Fools Fall in Love"
linked to: Frankie Lymon
subject linked to:
song "Why Do Fools Fall in Love"
subject linked to:
song "Why Do Fools Fall in Love"
subject linked to:
song "Why Do Fools Fall in Love"
linked to: Frankie Lymon
linked to: Frankie Lymon
linked to: Frankie Lymon