Ted Koehler
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Ted Koehler was an American lyricist best known for his popular songs of the 1920s–1940s, many written in collaboration with composer Harold Arlen.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ted Koehler canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T984641 — 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: Ted Koehler Context triple: [Get Happy, lyricist, Ted Koehler]
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A.
Jeff Weltman
Jeff Weltman is a basketball executive who serves as the top front-office decision-maker for the NBA’s Orlando Magic.
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B.
Joe Schoen
Joe Schoen is an American football executive best known as the general manager who helped lead the New York Giants’ recent roster rebuild and organizational turnaround.
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C.
Kevin Yagher
Kevin Yagher is an American special effects and makeup artist and director best known for his work on horror and fantasy films and for creating iconic genre characters.
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D.
Charles Begole
Charles Begole was an American mountaineer best known as one of the first climbers to reach the summit of Mount Whitney in the 19th century.
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E.
Jack Briggs
Jack Briggs was an American actor best known for his marriage to Hollywood star Ginger Rogers.
- 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: Ted Koehler Target entity description: Ted Koehler was an American lyricist best known for his popular songs of the 1920s–1940s, many written in collaboration with composer Harold Arlen.
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A.
Jeff Weltman
Jeff Weltman is a basketball executive who serves as the top front-office decision-maker for the NBA’s Orlando Magic.
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B.
Joe Schoen
Joe Schoen is an American football executive best known as the general manager who helped lead the New York Giants’ recent roster rebuild and organizational turnaround.
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C.
Kevin Yagher
Kevin Yagher is an American special effects and makeup artist and director best known for his work on horror and fantasy films and for creating iconic genre characters.
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D.
Charles Begole
Charles Begole was an American mountaineer best known as one of the first climbers to reach the summit of Mount Whitney in the 19th century.
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E.
Jack Briggs
Jack Briggs was an American actor best known for his marriage to Hollywood star Ginger Rogers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
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: Ted Koehler Description of subject: Ted Koehler was an American lyricist best known for his popular songs of the 1920s–1940s, many written in collaboration with composer Harold Arlen.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
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subject surface form:
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