Allan Jones
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Allan Jones was an American actor and tenor best known for his musical film roles in the 1930s, particularly in classic Marx Brothers comedies.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Allan Jones canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10812367 — 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: Allan Jones Context triple: [A Night at the Opera, starring, Allan Jones]
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A.
Allan Nicholls
Allan Nicholls is an American actor, director, and musician best known for his collaborations with filmmaker Robert Altman in the 1970s.
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B.
Allan Little
Allan Little is a British journalist and former BBC correspondent known for his in-depth reporting on international conflicts and political affairs.
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C.
Frank Bowden
Frank Bowden was a British businessman best known for transforming Raleigh into one of the world’s largest and most influential bicycle manufacturers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
Allan Drummond
Allan Drummond is a notable individual distinguished enough to be specifically recognized as a prominent bearer of the Drummond surname.
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E.
Ben Durrant
Ben Durrant is a musician best known as a member of the indie supergroup Gayngs.
- 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: Allan Jones Target entity description: Allan Jones was an American actor and tenor best known for his musical film roles in the 1930s, particularly in classic Marx Brothers comedies.
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A.
Allan Nicholls
Allan Nicholls is an American actor, director, and musician best known for his collaborations with filmmaker Robert Altman in the 1970s.
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B.
Allan Little
Allan Little is a British journalist and former BBC correspondent known for his in-depth reporting on international conflicts and political affairs.
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C.
Frank Bowden
Frank Bowden was a British businessman best known for transforming Raleigh into one of the world’s largest and most influential bicycle manufacturers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
Allan Drummond
Allan Drummond is a notable individual distinguished enough to be specifically recognized as a prominent bearer of the Drummond surname.
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E.
Ben Durrant
Ben Durrant is a musician best known as a member of the indie supergroup Gayngs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actor
ⓘ
human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ tenor ⓘ |
| birthName | Theodore Allen Jones NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California, United States ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | lung cancer ⓘ |
| child | Jack Jones NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1907-10-14 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1992-06-27 ⓘ |
| employer |
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
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Universal Pictures ⓘ |
| familyName | Jones ⓘ |
| genre |
musical film
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operetta ⓘ |
| givenName |
Allen
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Theodore NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Allan Jones NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
appearances in Marx Brothers comedies
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musical film roles in the 1930s ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Day at the Races
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
A Night at the Opera NERFINISHED ⓘ Show Boat (1936 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Firefly (1937 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Great Victor Herbert NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
singer ⓘ tenor ⓘ |
| performedSong |
Alone
NERFINISHED
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The Donkey Serenade NERFINISHED ⓘ You Are My Lucky Star NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Old Forge, Pennsylvania, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
New York City
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surface form:
New York City, New York, United States
|
| relative | Jack Jones NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Irene Hervey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| voiceType | tenor ⓘ |
| workedWith |
Chico Marx
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Groucho Marx NERFINISHED ⓘ Harpo Marx NERFINISHED ⓘ Marx Brothers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearsActive |
1930s
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1940s ⓘ 1950s ⓘ |
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: Allan Jones Description of subject: Allan Jones was an American actor and tenor best known for his musical film roles in the 1930s, particularly in classic Marx Brothers comedies.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.