Leroy Anderson
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Leroy Anderson was an American composer best known for his light orchestral works such as "Sleigh Ride" and "The Syncopated Clock."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Leroy Anderson canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5730834 — 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: Leroy Anderson Context triple: [Mitchell Parish, collaboratedWith, Leroy Anderson]
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A.
Vince Guaraldi
Vince Guaraldi was an American jazz pianist and composer best known for his iconic music for the Peanuts television specials, including the beloved A Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack.
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B.
Jules Furthman
Jules Furthman was an American screenwriter renowned for his work on numerous classic Hollywood films from the silent era through the 1940s, including collaborations with directors like Howard Hawks.
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C.
Jerome Moross
Jerome Moross was an American composer best known for his sweeping, Americana-infused film scores and concert works, particularly in the Western genre.
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D.
Eric Coates
Eric Coates was a British composer best known for his light orchestral music and popular marches that became widely familiar through radio and film.
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E.
Eric Coates
Eric Coates was a British computer scientist known for his involvement in early information retrieval and classification research, including work with the influential Classification Research Group.
- 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: Leroy Anderson Target entity description: Leroy Anderson was an American composer best known for his light orchestral works such as "Sleigh Ride" and "The Syncopated Clock."
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A.
Vince Guaraldi
Vince Guaraldi was an American jazz pianist and composer best known for his iconic music for the Peanuts television specials, including the beloved A Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack.
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B.
Jules Furthman
Jules Furthman was an American screenwriter renowned for his work on numerous classic Hollywood films from the silent era through the 1940s, including collaborations with directors like Howard Hawks.
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C.
Jerome Moross
Jerome Moross was an American composer best known for his sweeping, Americana-infused film scores and concert works, particularly in the Western genre.
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D.
Eric Coates
Eric Coates was a British composer best known for his light orchestral music and popular marches that became widely familiar through radio and film.
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E.
Eric Coates
Eric Coates was a British computer scientist known for his involvement in early information retrieval and classification research, including work with the influential Classification Research Group.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American composer
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composer ⓘ conductor ⓘ human ⓘ orchestrator ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Hollywood Walk of Fame star (for recording) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | Arthur Fiedler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1908-06-29 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1975-05-18 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Harvard University ⓘ |
| employer | Boston Pops Orchestra NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Anderson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | light orchestral music ⓘ |
| genre |
light music
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orchestral music ⓘ |
| givenName | Leroy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPart | Leroy Anderson House (former residence and museum) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| militaryService | United States Army ⓘ |
| movement | 20th-century classical music ⓘ |
| name | Leroy Anderson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Trumpeter’s Lullaby
NERFINISHED
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Belle of the Ball NERFINISHED ⓘ Blue Tango NERFINISHED ⓘ Bugler’s Holiday NERFINISHED ⓘ Fiddle-Faddle NERFINISHED ⓘ Forgotten Dreams NERFINISHED ⓘ Plink, Plank, Plunk! NERFINISHED ⓘ Sandpaper Ballet NERFINISHED ⓘ Serenata NERFINISHED ⓘ Sleigh Ride NERFINISHED ⓘ The Syncopated Clock NERFINISHED ⓘ The Typewriter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
arranger
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composer ⓘ conductor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Woodbury, Connecticut, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | arranger for Boston Pops Orchestra ⓘ |
| residence | Woodbury, Connecticut, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Eleanor Firke Anderson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Leroy Anderson Description of subject: Leroy Anderson was an American composer best known for his light orchestral works such as "Sleigh Ride" and "The Syncopated Clock."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.