Richard Benjamin Haymes
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Richard Benjamin Haymes was an Argentine-born American singer and actor prominent in the 1940s big band era and Hollywood musicals.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Richard Benjamin Haymes canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11009201 — 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 Benjamin Haymes Context triple: [Dick Haymes, birthName, Richard Benjamin Haymes]
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A.
Edward James Harland
Edward James Harland was a 19th-century British shipbuilder and industrialist best known as a co-founder of the Belfast shipbuilding firm Harland and Wolff.
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B.
Phil Kahl
Phil Kahl was a music industry figure best known as a co-founder of the influential American record label Roulette Records.
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C.
Charles Nelson Murret
Charles Nelson Murret was the husband of Marguerite Frances Claverie, known primarily through this marital connection.
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D.
Warren Beatty
Warren Beatty is an acclaimed American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter known for influential films such as "Bonnie and Clyde," "Reds," and "Heaven Can Wait."
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E.
Jack Livingston
Jack Livingston was an American silent film actor active in the early 20th century.
- 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 Benjamin Haymes Target entity description: Richard Benjamin Haymes was an Argentine-born American singer and actor prominent in the 1940s big band era and Hollywood musicals.
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A.
Edward James Harland
Edward James Harland was a 19th-century British shipbuilder and industrialist best known as a co-founder of the Belfast shipbuilding firm Harland and Wolff.
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B.
Phil Kahl
Phil Kahl was a music industry figure best known as a co-founder of the influential American record label Roulette Records.
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C.
Charles Nelson Murret
Charles Nelson Murret was the husband of Marguerite Frances Claverie, known primarily through this marital connection.
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D.
Warren Beatty
Warren Beatty is an acclaimed American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter known for influential films such as "Bonnie and Clyde," "Reds," and "Heaven Can Wait."
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E.
Jack Livingston
Jack Livingston was an American silent film actor active in the early 20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
ⓘ
big band singer ⓘ film actor ⓘ person ⓘ singer ⓘ |
| activePeriod | 1940s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Harry James and His Orchestra
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthCountry | Argentina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1918-09-13 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Buenos Aires NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | lung cancer ⓘ |
| citizenship |
Argentina
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| deathCountry | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1980-03-28 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Los Angeles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathState | California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era |
Hollywood Golden Age
ⓘ
surface form:
Golden Age of Hollywood
|
| familyName | Haymes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Richard Benjamin Haymes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
big band
ⓘ
traditional pop ⓘ |
| givenName | Richard ⓘ |
| languageOfPerformance | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Hollywood musicals
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
big band era performances ⓘ |
| notableSong |
It Might as Well Be Spring
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
You’ll Never Know NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Diamond Horseshoe (1945 film)
NERFINISHED
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Do You Love Me (1946 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ State Fair (1945 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Shocking Miss Pilgrim NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfMarriages | 6 ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
singer ⓘ |
| spouse |
Fran Jeffries
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Gwynne Whitby NERFINISHED ⓘ Joanne Dru NERFINISHED ⓘ Nora Eddington NERFINISHED ⓘ Rita Hayworth NERFINISHED ⓘ Wendy Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stageName | Dick Haymes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| voiceType | baritone ⓘ |
| workedWith |
Betty Grable
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bing Crosby NERFINISHED ⓘ Harry James NERFINISHED ⓘ Tommy Dorsey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Richard Benjamin Haymes Description of subject: Richard Benjamin Haymes was an Argentine-born American singer and actor prominent in the 1940s big band era and Hollywood musicals.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.