George Merrill (divorced)
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George Merrill is an American songwriter best known as one half of the duo Boy Meets Girl, co-writing Whitney Houston hits like "How Will I Know" and "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| George Merrill (divorced) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1616793 — 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: George Merrill (divorced) Context triple: [Shannon Rubicam, maritalStatusWith, George Merrill (divorced)]
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A.
Susan Brown (divorced)
Susan Brown is the former wife of American businessman and former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg.
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B.
Merritt Paulson
Merritt Paulson is an American sports executive best known for owning and leading Portland’s professional soccer clubs, including the Portland Timbers of Major League Soccer and the Portland Thorns FC of the National Women's Soccer League.
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C.
Julia Bingham (divorced)
Julia Bingham is the former wife of American screenwriter and director Aaron Sorkin.
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D.
Melinda Rogers
Melinda Rogers is a Canadian business executive and member of the Rogers family, known for her leadership roles within Rogers Communications.
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E.
Tully Friedman
Tully Friedman is an American financier and private equity investor best known as the co-founder of the investment firm Hellman & Friedman.
- 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: George Merrill (divorced) Target entity description: George Merrill is an American songwriter best known as one half of the duo Boy Meets Girl, co-writing Whitney Houston hits like "How Will I Know" and "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)."
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A.
Susan Brown (divorced)
Susan Brown is the former wife of American businessman and former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg.
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B.
Merritt Paulson
Merritt Paulson is an American sports executive best known for owning and leading Portland’s professional soccer clubs, including the Portland Timbers of Major League Soccer and the Portland Thorns FC of the National Women's Soccer League.
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C.
Julia Bingham (divorced)
Julia Bingham is the former wife of American screenwriter and director Aaron Sorkin.
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D.
Melinda Rogers
Melinda Rogers is a Canadian business executive and member of the Rogers family, known for her leadership roles within Rogers Communications.
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E.
Tully Friedman
Tully Friedman is an American financier and private equity investor best known as the co-founder of the investment firm Hellman & Friedman.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
record producer ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| basedIn |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| coWrote |
How Will I Know
ⓘ
I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me) ⓘ |
| coWroteFor | Whitney Houston ⓘ |
| genre |
dance-pop
ⓘ
pop music ⓘ synth-pop ⓘ |
| hasDuoPartner | Shannon Rubicam ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | divorced ⓘ |
| memberOf | Boy Meets Girl ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being half of the duo Boy Meets Girl
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co-writing hit songs for Whitney Houston ⓘ |
| notableWork |
How Will I Know
ⓘ
I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me) ⓘ |
| occupation |
record producer
ⓘ
singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| partOf | American pop music ⓘ |
| performerIn | Boy Meets Girl ⓘ |
| spouse | Shannon Rubicam ⓘ |
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: George Merrill (divorced) Description of subject: George Merrill is an American songwriter best known as one half of the duo Boy Meets Girl, co-writing Whitney Houston hits like "How Will I Know" and "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.