Bobby Freeman
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Bobby Freeman was an American rock and soul singer-songwriter best known for his 1958 hit single "Do You Wanna Dance?".
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bobby Freeman canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5713536 — 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: Bobby Freeman Context triple: [Do You Wanna Dance?, composer, Bobby Freeman]
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A.
Bobby Whitman
Bobby Whitman is a central character in the thriller film "Mindhunters," portrayed as one of the FBI profiler trainees trapped on a remote island during a deadly training exercise.
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B.
Bobby Sheen
Bobby Sheen was an American R&B and soul singer best known for his work as a session vocalist and as a member of various vocal groups during the 1960s.
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C.
Bobby Short
Bobby Short was an American cabaret singer and pianist renowned for his sophisticated interpretations of the Great American Songbook, especially the works of Cole Porter.
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D.
Bobby Charles
Bobby Charles was an American singer-songwriter known for penning influential swamp pop and rock and roll songs such as “See You Later, Alligator” and “Walking to New Orleans.”
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E.
Bobby Reed
Bobby Reed was the husband of actress and vaudeville performer June Havoc.
- 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: Bobby Freeman Target entity description: Bobby Freeman was an American rock and soul singer-songwriter best known for his 1958 hit single "Do You Wanna Dance?".
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A.
Bobby Whitman
Bobby Whitman is a central character in the thriller film "Mindhunters," portrayed as one of the FBI profiler trainees trapped on a remote island during a deadly training exercise.
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B.
Bobby Sheen
Bobby Sheen was an American R&B and soul singer best known for his work as a session vocalist and as a member of various vocal groups during the 1960s.
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C.
Bobby Short
Bobby Short was an American cabaret singer and pianist renowned for his sophisticated interpretations of the Great American Songbook, especially the works of Cole Porter.
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D.
Bobby Charles
Bobby Charles was an American singer-songwriter known for penning influential swamp pop and rock and roll songs such as “See You Later, Alligator” and “Walking to New Orleans.”
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E.
Bobby Reed
Bobby Reed was the husband of actress and vaudeville performer June Havoc.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
rock musician ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ song ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1950s ⓘ |
| associatedAct | Sly Stone NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedIn | San Francisco, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Robert Thomas Freeman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | natural causes ⓘ |
| charting | Billboard Hot 100 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1940-06-13 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2017-01-23 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Black Americans
ⓘ
surface form:
African American
|
| familyName | Freeman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
dance music
ⓘ
rhythm and blues NERFINISHED ⓘ rock and roll ⓘ soul ⓘ |
| givenName | Robert ⓘ |
| instrument | vocals ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | early rock and roll ⓘ |
| name | Bobby Freeman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | charted multiple singles on the Billboard Hot 100 ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Betty Lou Got a New Pair of Shoes
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
C'mon and Swim NERFINISHED ⓘ Do You Wanna Dance? NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
singer
ⓘ
songwriter ⓘ |
| peakChartPosition | No. 5 on Billboard Hot 100 ⓘ |
| performer | Bobby Freeman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | San Francisco, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Daly City, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationDate |
1958
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1964 ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Autumn Records
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Josie Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | San Francisco Bay Area 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: Bobby Freeman Description of subject: Bobby Freeman was an American rock and soul singer-songwriter best known for his 1958 hit single "Do You Wanna Dance?".
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.