Vic Damone
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Vic Damone was an American traditional pop and big band singer and entertainer known for his smooth baritone voice and romantic ballads, particularly popular in the 1940s and 1950s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Vic Damone canonical | 12 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3169292 — 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: Vic Damone Context triple: [Blue Moon, hasNotableRecordingBy, Vic Damone]
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A.
Mel Tormé
Mel Tormé was an American jazz singer, composer, and actor, celebrated for his smooth vocal style and known as "The Velvet Fog."
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B.
Barry Manilow
Barry Manilow is an American singer-songwriter and producer best known for a string of 1970s and 1980s pop hits such as "Mandy," "Copacabana," and "Can't Smile Without You."
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C.
Eddie Fisher
Eddie Fisher was a popular American singer and entertainer of the 1950s known for his hit records and high-profile Hollywood marriages.
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D.
Andy Williams
Andy Williams was an American pop singer and television host renowned for his smooth voice and classic renditions of popular standards and Christmas songs.
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E.
Paul Anka
Paul Anka is a Canadian-American singer, songwriter, and actor best known for pop hits like "Diana" and "Put Your Head on My Shoulder" and for writing songs for artists such as Frank Sinatra.
- 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: Vic Damone Target entity description: Vic Damone was an American traditional pop and big band singer and entertainer known for his smooth baritone voice and romantic ballads, particularly popular in the 1940s and 1950s.
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A.
Mel Tormé
Mel Tormé was an American jazz singer, composer, and actor, celebrated for his smooth vocal style and known as "The Velvet Fog."
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B.
Barry Manilow
Barry Manilow is an American singer-songwriter and producer best known for a string of 1970s and 1980s pop hits such as "Mandy," "Copacabana," and "Can't Smile Without You."
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C.
Eddie Fisher
Eddie Fisher was a popular American singer and entertainer of the 1950s known for his hit records and high-profile Hollywood marriages.
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D.
Andy Williams
Andy Williams was an American pop singer and television host renowned for his smooth voice and classic renditions of popular standards and Christmas songs.
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E.
Paul Anka
Paul Anka is a Canadian-American singer, songwriter, and actor best known for pop hits like "Diana" and "Put Your Head on My Shoulder" and for writing songs for artists such as Frank Sinatra.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Vic Damone Description of subject: Vic Damone was an American traditional pop and big band singer and entertainer known for his smooth baritone voice and romantic ballads, particularly popular in the 1940s and 1950s.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
"It's Magic"
subject surface form:
"I'll Walk Alone"