The Buddy Holly Story
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The Buddy Holly Story is a 1978 biographical film that dramatizes the life and career of rock and roll pioneer Buddy Holly.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Buddy Holly Story canonical | 5 |
| Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7445790 — 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: The Buddy Holly Story Context triple: [Charles Martin Smith, notableWork, The Buddy Holly Story]
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A.
Million Dollar Quartet
Million Dollar Quartet was an impromptu 1956 jam session at Sun Studio in Memphis featuring rock and roll pioneers Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash, later celebrated in recordings and a stage musical.
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B.
The Day the Music Died
The Day the Music Died refers to the 1959 plane crash that killed rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, symbolizing a tragic turning point in popular music history.
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C.
Marilyn & Billy
"Marilyn & Billy" is a 1978 studio album by American vocalists Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr., showcasing their soulful pop and R&B duets.
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D.
The Blues Brothers
The Blues Brothers is a comedy-blues musical act and film duo created by Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi, featuring their iconic black suits, fedoras, and soulful performances.
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E.
Lilies of the Field
Lilies of the Field is a 1963 American film drama, best known for Sidney Poitier’s Oscar-winning performance as a handyman who helps a group of nuns build a chapel in the Arizona desert.
- 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: The Buddy Holly Story Target entity description: The Buddy Holly Story is a 1978 biographical film that dramatizes the life and career of rock and roll pioneer Buddy Holly.
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A.
Million Dollar Quartet
Million Dollar Quartet was an impromptu 1956 jam session at Sun Studio in Memphis featuring rock and roll pioneers Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash, later celebrated in recordings and a stage musical.
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B.
The Day the Music Died
The Day the Music Died refers to the 1959 plane crash that killed rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, symbolizing a tragic turning point in popular music history.
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C.
Marilyn & Billy
"Marilyn & Billy" is a 1978 studio album by American vocalists Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr., showcasing their soulful pop and R&B duets.
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D.
The Blues Brothers
The Blues Brothers is a comedy-blues musical act and film duo created by Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi, featuring their iconic black suits, fedoras, and soulful performances.
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E.
Lilies of the Field
Lilies of the Field is a 1963 American film drama, best known for Sidney Poitier’s Oscar-winning performance as a handyman who helps a group of nuns build a chapel in the Arizona desert.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| about |
career of Buddy Holly
ⓘ
life of Buddy Holly ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Academy Award for Best Adaptation Score NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Buddy Holly
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
life of Buddy Holly ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Douglas Milsome NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| depicts |
1950s music scene
ⓘ
rock and roll music ⓘ |
| director | Steve Rash NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedBy | Columbia Pictures ⓘ |
| editedBy | David E. Blewitt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmLocation | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
biographical film
ⓘ
drama film ⓘ musical film ⓘ |
| hasCastMember |
Charles Martin Smith
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Conrad Janis NERFINISHED ⓘ Don Stroud NERFINISHED ⓘ Gary Busey NERFINISHED ⓘ Maria Richwine NERFINISHED ⓘ William Jordan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasOriginalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject | Buddy Holly NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | J. A. C. Redford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nominatedFor |
Academy Award for Best Actor
ⓘ
Academy Award for Best Sound NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrays |
Buddy Holly
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Crickets NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Fred Bauer
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Michael S. Rosenberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Fred Bauer Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1978 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1978 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 114 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Robert Gittler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInTimePeriod | 1950s ⓘ |
| starring |
Charles Martin Smith
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Conrad Janis NERFINISHED ⓘ Don Stroud NERFINISHED ⓘ Gary Busey NERFINISHED ⓘ Maria Richwine NERFINISHED ⓘ William Jordan 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: The Buddy Holly Story Description of subject: The Buddy Holly Story is a 1978 biographical film that dramatizes the life and career of rock and roll pioneer Buddy Holly.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story