Toby Perlman
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Toby Perlman is an American violinist and music educator, best known as the founder and director of the Perlman Music Program, which trains gifted young string players.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Toby Perlman canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1583896 — 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: Toby Perlman Context triple: [Itzhak Perlman, spouse, Toby Perlman]
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A.
Ryan Roslansky
Ryan Roslansky is the CEO of LinkedIn, known for leading the professional networking platform’s product and business strategy.
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B.
Nathan Grossman
Nathan Grossman is a Swedish documentary filmmaker best known for directing the climate activist portrait film "I Am Greta."
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C.
Sam Zussman
Sam Zussman is a sports and media executive who serves as a top business leader for the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets organization.
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D.
Toby Pohlen
Toby Pohlen is a member of the team at xAI, the artificial intelligence company founded by Elon Musk.
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E.
Joshua Michael Stern
Joshua Michael Stern is an American film director and screenwriter known for helming biographical and dramatic feature films.
- 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: Toby Perlman Target entity description: Toby Perlman is an American violinist and music educator, best known as the founder and director of the Perlman Music Program, which trains gifted young string players.
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A.
Ryan Roslansky
Ryan Roslansky is the CEO of LinkedIn, known for leading the professional networking platform’s product and business strategy.
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B.
Nathan Grossman
Nathan Grossman is a Swedish documentary filmmaker best known for directing the climate activist portrait film "I Am Greta."
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C.
Sam Zussman
Sam Zussman is a sports and media executive who serves as a top business leader for the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets organization.
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D.
Toby Pohlen
Toby Pohlen is a member of the team at xAI, the artificial intelligence company founded by Elon Musk.
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E.
Joshua Michael Stern
Joshua Michael Stern is an American film director and screenwriter known for helming biographical and dramatic feature films.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
founder
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human ⓘ music education program ⓘ music educator ⓘ summer music school ⓘ violinist ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Itzhak Perlman ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Juilliard School ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
classical music
ⓘ
music education ⓘ string instrument performance ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
bass
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cello ⓘ chamber music ⓘ viola ⓘ violin ⓘ |
| founded | Perlman Music Program ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Toby Perlman self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| genre | classical music ⓘ |
| instrument | violin ⓘ |
| knownFor |
founding the Perlman Music Program
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training gifted young string players ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| notableWork | Perlman Music Program ⓘ |
| occupation |
artistic director
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music educator ⓘ violinist ⓘ |
| partnerInBusiness | Itzhak Perlman ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
artistic director of the Perlman Music Program
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director of the Perlman Music Program ⓘ |
| residence |
New York
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surface form:
New York (state)
Shelter Island ⓘ
surface form:
Shelter Island, New York
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| spouse | Itzhak Perlman ⓘ |
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: Toby Perlman Description of subject: Toby Perlman is an American violinist and music educator, best known as the founder and director of the Perlman Music Program, which trains gifted young string players.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Perlman Music Program