Jimmy Durante
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Jimmy Durante was a beloved American comedian, actor, and singer known for his gravelly voice, prominent nose, and exuberant stage and screen persona.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jimmy Durante canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5227094 — 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: Jimmy Durante Context triple: [Red, Hot and Blue, originalCastMember, Jimmy Durante]
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A.
Milton Berle
Milton Berle was an American comedian and actor widely known as one of television’s first major stars, often called “Mr. Television” for his pioneering role in early TV entertainment.
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B.
Jackie Gleason
Jackie Gleason was a celebrated American comedian and actor best known for his larger-than-life personality and iconic role as Ralph Kramden on the classic television series "The Honeymooners."
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C.
Danny Kaye
Danny Kaye was an American actor, comedian, singer, and dancer renowned for his energetic performances in films and on stage during the mid-20th century.
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D.
Danny Thomas
Danny Thomas was an American comedian, actor, and producer best known for creating and starring in the sitcom "Make Room for Daddy" and for founding St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
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E.
Donald O'Connor
Donald O'Connor was an American actor, dancer, and singer best known for his energetic comedic performances in classic Hollywood musicals.
- 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: Jimmy Durante Target entity description: Jimmy Durante was a beloved American comedian, actor, and singer known for his gravelly voice, prominent nose, and exuberant stage and screen persona.
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A.
Milton Berle
Milton Berle was an American comedian and actor widely known as one of television’s first major stars, often called “Mr. Television” for his pioneering role in early TV entertainment.
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B.
Jackie Gleason
Jackie Gleason was a celebrated American comedian and actor best known for his larger-than-life personality and iconic role as Ralph Kramden on the classic television series "The Honeymooners."
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C.
Danny Kaye
Danny Kaye was an American actor, comedian, singer, and dancer renowned for his energetic performances in films and on stage during the mid-20th century.
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D.
Danny Thomas
Danny Thomas was an American comedian, actor, and producer best known for creating and starring in the sitcom "Make Room for Daddy" and for founding St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
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E.
Donald O'Connor
Donald O'Connor was an American actor, dancer, and singer best known for his energetic comedic performances in classic Hollywood musicals.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
comedian
ⓘ
film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1893-02-10 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Manhattan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| burialPlace | Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| catchphrase | Good night, Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | pneumonia ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| deathDate | 1980-01-29 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
Santa Monica, California
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| ethnicGroup | Italian American ⓘ |
| familyName | Durante NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | James Francis Durante NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
ⓘ
popular music ⓘ |
| givenName | James ⓘ |
| hasVoiceType | gravelly baritone ⓘ |
| instrument | piano ⓘ |
| medium |
film
ⓘ
radio ⓘ television ⓘ vaudeville ⓘ |
| nickname |
Schnozzola
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Great Schnozzola NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
gravelly voice
ⓘ
prominent nose ⓘ |
| notableSong |
As Time Goes By (recording)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Inka Dinka Doo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Billy Rose’s Jumbo
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World NERFINISHED ⓘ The Great Rupert NERFINISHED ⓘ The Jimmy Durante Show NERFINISHED ⓘ The Man Who Came to Dinner NERFINISHED ⓘ You’re in the Army Now NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
comedian ⓘ pianist ⓘ singer ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| spouse |
Jeanne Olson
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Margie Little NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Jimmy Durante Description of subject: Jimmy Durante was a beloved American comedian, actor, and singer known for his gravelly voice, prominent nose, and exuberant stage and screen persona.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.