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instanceOf
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American composer
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composer
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conductor
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human
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playwright
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songwriter
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awardReceived
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Tony Award for Best Musical
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surface form:
Tony Award for Best Musical (for The Music Man, as composer-lyricist)
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basedOn
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Mason City, Iowa, United States
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surface form:
Mason City, Iowa
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birthName
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Robert Meredith Willson
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burialPlace
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Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles
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surface form:
Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills, California, United States
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composedSong
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It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas
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Seventy-Six Trombones
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Till There Was You
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countryOfCitizenship
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United States of America
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dateOfBirth
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1902-05-18
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dateOfDeath
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1984-06-15
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employer
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NBC Radio
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familyName
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Willson
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genre
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musical theatre
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popular music
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givenName
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Meredith
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Robert
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inspiredSettingOf
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River City
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surface form:
River City in The Music Man
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language
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English
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memberOf
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John Philip Sousa Band
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New York Philharmonic
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name
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Meredith Willson
self-link
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notableWork
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Here’s Love
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The Music Man
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The Unsinkable Molly Brown
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occupation
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composer
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conductor
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playwright
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radio personality
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songwriter
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placeOfBirth
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Mason City, Iowa, United States
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placeOfDeath
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Santa Monica, California, United States
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playedInstrument
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flute
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piccolo
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spouse
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Elizabeth Wilson
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Rilla Zuckerkandle
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Rini Ziegler
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subjectOf
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film adaptation of The Music Man (1962)
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wroteAutobiography
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And There I Stood With My Piccolo
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Eggs I Have Laid
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wroteMusical
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Here’s Love
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The Music Man
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The Unsinkable Molly Brown
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