Herbert Reynolds
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Herbert Reynolds was an early 20th-century American lyricist best known for his collaborations with composer Jerome Kern on popular songs from the musical theatre and Tin Pan Alley era.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Herbert Reynolds canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10954399 — 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: Herbert Reynolds Context triple: [They Didn't Believe Me, lyricist, Herbert Reynolds]
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A.
Ralph Nelson
Ralph Nelson was an American film and television director, producer, and writer known for works such as "Lilies of the Field" and "Requiem for a Heavyweight."
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B.
Robert Parrish
Robert Parrish was an American film editor and director, as well as a former child actor, known for his work on several classic Hollywood films.
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C.
Lewis Frederick Ayres III
Lewis Frederick Ayres III, better known as Lew Ayres, was an American actor and conscientious objector famed for his role in the film "All Quiet on the Western Front."
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D.
David Wayne
David Wayne was an American character actor known for his versatile performances in film, television, and theater from the 1940s through the 1980s.
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E.
Dan Duryea
Dan Duryea was an American character actor best known for his distinctive portrayals of sneering villains and tough guys in film noir and classic Hollywood movies of the 1940s and 1950s.
- 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: Herbert Reynolds Target entity description: Herbert Reynolds was an early 20th-century American lyricist best known for his collaborations with composer Jerome Kern on popular songs from the musical theatre and Tin Pan Alley era.
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A.
Ralph Nelson
Ralph Nelson was an American film and television director, producer, and writer known for works such as "Lilies of the Field" and "Requiem for a Heavyweight."
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B.
Robert Parrish
Robert Parrish was an American film editor and director, as well as a former child actor, known for his work on several classic Hollywood films.
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C.
Lewis Frederick Ayres III
Lewis Frederick Ayres III, better known as Lew Ayres, was an American actor and conscientious objector famed for his role in the film "All Quiet on the Western Front."
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D.
David Wayne
David Wayne was an American character actor known for his versatile performances in film, television, and theater from the 1940s through the 1980s.
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E.
Dan Duryea
Dan Duryea was an American character actor best known for his distinctive portrayals of sneering villains and tough guys in film noir and classic Hollywood movies of the 1940s and 1950s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
lyricist
ⓘ
person ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | Jerome Kern ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
lyric writing
ⓘ
songwriting ⓘ |
| genre |
Tin Pan Alley
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musical theatre ⓘ popular music ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Tin Pan Alley songs
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collaborations with Jerome Kern ⓘ musical theatre songs ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Look in His Eyes
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Same Sort of Girl ⓘ The Golden Wedding ⓘ The Land Where the Good Songs Go ⓘ The Magic Melody ⓘ The Ragtime Restaurant ⓘ The Siren’s Song ⓘ The Way to a Girl’s Heart ⓘ The Wedding Glide ⓘ They Didn’t Believe Me ⓘ
linked to:
They Didn't Believe Me
You Said Something ⓘ You’re Here and I’m Here ⓘ |
| occupation |
lyricist
ⓘ
songwriter ⓘ |
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: Herbert Reynolds Description of subject: Herbert Reynolds was an early 20th-century American lyricist best known for his collaborations with composer Jerome Kern on popular songs from the musical theatre and Tin Pan Alley era.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.