Howard Keel
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Howard Keel was an American actor and baritone singer best known for his leading roles in classic MGM musicals of the 1950s and later for his role on the TV series "Dallas."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Howard Keel canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5590988 — 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: Howard Keel Context triple: [Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, starring, Howard Keel]
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A.
Bob Merrill
Bob Merrill was an American songwriter and lyricist best known for his work on Broadway musicals and popular songs in the mid-20th century.
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B.
Gordon MacRae
Gordon MacRae was an American actor and singer best known for his leading roles in classic Hollywood film musicals such as "Oklahoma!" and "Carousel."
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C.
John Cullum
John Cullum is an American actor and singer best known for his Tony Award–winning work on Broadway and his roles in film and television, including the series "Northern Exposure."
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D.
Cliff Hayes
Cliff Hayes is a film editor best known for his work on the influential Australian action film "Mad Max."
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E.
Mel Tormé
Mel Tormé was an American jazz singer, composer, and actor, celebrated for his smooth vocal style and known as "The Velvet Fog."
- 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: Howard Keel Target entity description: Howard Keel was an American actor and baritone singer best known for his leading roles in classic MGM musicals of the 1950s and later for his role on the TV series "Dallas."
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A.
Bob Merrill
Bob Merrill was an American songwriter and lyricist best known for his work on Broadway musicals and popular songs in the mid-20th century.
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B.
Gordon MacRae
Gordon MacRae was an American actor and singer best known for his leading roles in classic Hollywood film musicals such as "Oklahoma!" and "Carousel."
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C.
John Cullum
John Cullum is an American actor and singer best known for his Tony Award–winning work on Broadway and his roles in film and television, including the series "Northern Exposure."
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D.
Cliff Hayes
Cliff Hayes is a film editor best known for his work on the influential Australian action film "Mad Max."
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E.
Mel Tormé
Mel Tormé was an American jazz singer, composer, and actor, celebrated for his smooth vocal style and known as "The Velvet Fog."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
baritone
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1990s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1940s ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Golden Boot Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Harold Clifford Keel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Cathedral City, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | colon cancer ⓘ |
| characterRole | Clayton Farlow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1919-04-13 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2004-11-07 ⓘ |
| employer | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ⓘ |
| familyName | Keel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | musical film ⓘ |
| givenName | Harold ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Howard Keel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Annie Get Your Gun
NERFINISHED
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Calamity Jane NERFINISHED ⓘ Dallas NERFINISHED ⓘ Jupiter’s Darling NERFINISHED ⓘ Kismet NERFINISHED ⓘ Kiss Me Kate NERFINISHED ⓘ Lovely to Look At NERFINISHED ⓘ Pagan Love Song NERFINISHED ⓘ Rose Marie NERFINISHED ⓘ Seven Brides for Seven Brothers NERFINISHED ⓘ Show Boat NERFINISHED ⓘ Texas Carnival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 4 ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
musical theatre actor ⓘ singer ⓘ |
| performedIn |
Broadway theatre
NERFINISHED
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West End theatre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Gillespie, Illinois, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Palm Desert, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Decca Records
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MCA Records ⓘ |
| residence | Palm Desert, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse |
Helen Anderson
NERFINISHED
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Judy Keel NERFINISHED ⓘ Rosemary Cooper NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| voiceType | baritone ⓘ |
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: Howard Keel Description of subject: Howard Keel was an American actor and baritone singer best known for his leading roles in classic MGM musicals of the 1950s and later for his role on the TV series "Dallas."
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.