Pennsylvania 6-5000
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"Pennsylvania 6-5000" is a popular big band jazz instrumental and song made famous by Glenn Miller and His Orchestra, named after a New York City telephone number.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Pennsylvania 6-5000 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7773410 — 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: Pennsylvania 6-5000 Context triple: [Glenn Miller, notableWork, Pennsylvania 6-5000]
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A.
Penn
Penn is a private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia known for its strong programs in business, law, medicine, and the liberal arts.
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B.
Penn
Penn is the stage and given name of Penn Jillette, the outspoken magician, comedian, and half of the famed duo Penn & Teller.
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C.
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania is a historically significant U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions, known for cities like Philadelphia and Pittsburgh and its central role in the nation’s founding.
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D.
Pensilvania
Pensilvania is a municipality and town located in the Caldas Department of Colombia, known for its coffee-growing economy and mountainous Andean landscape.
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E.
PENN
PENN is the stock ticker symbol for PENN Entertainment, a major U.S. gaming and sports-betting company that operates casinos and online wagering platforms.
- 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: Pennsylvania 6-5000 Target entity description: "Pennsylvania 6-5000" is a popular big band jazz instrumental and song made famous by Glenn Miller and His Orchestra, named after a New York City telephone number.
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A.
Penn
Penn is the stage and given name of Penn Jillette, the outspoken magician, comedian, and half of the famed duo Penn & Teller.
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B.
Penn
Penn is a private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia known for its strong programs in business, law, medicine, and the liberal arts.
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C.
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania is a historically significant U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions, known for cities like Philadelphia and Pittsburgh and its central role in the nation’s founding.
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D.
Pensilvania
Pensilvania is a municipality and town located in the Caldas Department of Colombia, known for its coffee-growing economy and mountainous Andean landscape.
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E.
PENN
PENN is the stock ticker symbol for PENN Entertainment, a major U.S. gaming and sports-betting company that operates casinos and online wagering platforms.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
big band composition
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song ⓘ |
| associatedWithLocation |
Hotel Pennsylvania, New York City
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New York City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | Jerry Gray NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| firstPopularizedInDecade | 1940s ⓘ |
| genre |
big band
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jazz ⓘ swing ⓘ |
| hasAssociatedVenue | Hotel Pennsylvania ballroom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChorusFeature | band shouting telephone number ⓘ |
| hasCulturalImpact | popularized telephone-number song titles in swing era ⓘ |
| hasInstrumentation |
brass section
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reed section ⓘ rhythm section ⓘ |
| hasMusicalEra | swing era ⓘ |
| hasMusicalForm |
instrumental
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song with vocal refrain ⓘ |
| hasNotableRecording | Glenn Miller and His Orchestra 1940 recording ⓘ |
| hasStyle | swing era big band ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
New York City nightlife
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telephone number ⓘ |
| hasTitleTheme | telephone call to Hotel Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | Hotel Pennsylvania telephone number ⓘ |
| isStandardIn | big band jazz repertoire ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Carl Sigman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| madeFamousBy | Glenn Miller and His Orchestra NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Hotel Pennsylvania
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
telephone number Pennsylvania 6-5000 ⓘ |
| notableFor |
association with Glenn Miller’s orchestra
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use of spoken telephone number in arrangement ⓘ |
| partOfRepertoireOf | Glenn Miller and His Orchestra NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performer | Glenn Miller and His Orchestra NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordedBy | Glenn Miller and His Orchestra NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Bluebird Records
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
RCA Victor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| telephoneNumberInTitle | Pennsylvania 6-5000 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: Pennsylvania 6-5000 Description of subject: "Pennsylvania 6-5000" is a popular big band jazz instrumental and song made famous by Glenn Miller and His Orchestra, named after a New York City telephone number.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.