Bob Merrill (lyricist of Funny Girl)
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Bob Merrill was an American songwriter and lyricist best known for his work on the Broadway musical "Funny Girl," including co-writing its iconic songs.
All labels observed (1)
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| Bob Merrill (lyricist of Funny Girl) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7364277 — 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: Bob Merrill (lyricist of Funny Girl) Context triple: [Nicky Arnstein, associatedWithWorkBy, Bob Merrill (lyricist of Funny Girl)]
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A.
Frank Loesser
Frank Loesser was an American songwriter and composer best known for his work on Broadway musicals such as "Guys and Dolls" and "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying," as well as numerous popular standards.
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B.
Hal David
Hal David was an American lyricist renowned for his long-running partnership with composer Burt Bacharach, together creating numerous classic pop hits of the 1960s and 1970s.
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C.
Jerry Herman
Jerry Herman was an American composer and lyricist best known for his hit Broadway musicals, including Hello, Dolly! and Mame.
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D.
Sheldon Harnick
Sheldon Harnick was an American lyricist best known for his long collaboration with composer Jerry Bock on classic Broadway musicals, including the landmark show Fiddler on the Roof.
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E.
Alan Jay Lerner
Alan Jay Lerner was an American lyricist and librettist best known for his collaborations with composer Frederick Loewe on classic Broadway and film musicals such as "My Fair Lady" and "Camelot."
- 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: Bob Merrill (lyricist of Funny Girl) Target entity description: Bob Merrill was an American songwriter and lyricist best known for his work on the Broadway musical "Funny Girl," including co-writing its iconic songs.
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A.
Frank Loesser
Frank Loesser was an American songwriter and composer best known for his work on Broadway musicals such as "Guys and Dolls" and "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying," as well as numerous popular standards.
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B.
Hal David
Hal David was an American lyricist renowned for his long-running partnership with composer Burt Bacharach, together creating numerous classic pop hits of the 1960s and 1970s.
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C.
Jerry Herman
Jerry Herman was an American composer and lyricist best known for his hit Broadway musicals, including Hello, Dolly! and Mame.
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D.
Sheldon Harnick
Sheldon Harnick was an American lyricist best known for his long collaboration with composer Jerry Bock on classic Broadway musicals, including the landmark show Fiddler on the Roof.
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E.
Alan Jay Lerner
Alan Jay Lerner was an American lyricist and librettist best known for his collaborations with composer Frederick Loewe on classic Broadway and film musicals such as "My Fair Lady" and "Camelot."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
composer
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human ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
Barbra Streisand
NERFINISHED
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E.Y. Harburg NERFINISHED ⓘ Harold Rome NERFINISHED ⓘ Jule Styne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Broadway theatre
NERFINISHED
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songwriting ⓘ |
| genre |
musical theatre
ⓘ
popular music ⓘ |
| hasGenre |
novelty song
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show tune ⓘ torch song ⓘ |
| influenced | American popular song ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | co-writing songs for the musical Funny Girl ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Don’t Rain on My Parade
NERFINISHED
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Funny Girl NERFINISHED ⓘ People ⓘ Sunshine Girl NERFINISHED ⓘ The Music That Makes Me Dance NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
composer
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lyricist ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| partOf | American musical theatre tradition ⓘ |
| workLocation | New York City ⓘ |
| wroteLyricsFor |
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (stage musical)
NERFINISHED
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Carnival! NERFINISHED ⓘ Funny Girl NERFINISHED ⓘ New Girl in Town NERFINISHED ⓘ Take Me Along NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wroteMusicFor |
Honeycomb
NERFINISHED
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How Much Is That Doggie in the Window? NERFINISHED ⓘ If I Knew You Were Comin’ I’d’ve Baked a Cake NERFINISHED ⓘ Love Makes the World Go Round NERFINISHED ⓘ Make Yourself Comfortable NERFINISHED ⓘ Mambo Italiano 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: Bob Merrill (lyricist of Funny Girl) Description of subject: Bob Merrill was an American songwriter and lyricist best known for his work on the Broadway musical "Funny Girl," including co-writing its iconic songs.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Nicky Arnstein