Richard A. Whiting
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Richard A. Whiting was an American composer best known for writing popular standards such as "Hooray for Hollywood" and "On the Good Ship Lollipop."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Richard A. Whiting canonical | 2 |
| Richard Whiting | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8866821 — 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: Richard A. Whiting Context triple: [Margaret Whiting, father, Richard A. Whiting]
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Milton Ager
Milton Ager was an American songwriter and composer best known for his popular standards of the early 20th century, many of which became enduring hits of the Tin Pan Alley era.
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B.
James W. Steese
James W. Steese was an American military officer and engineer who played a significant role in the development of Alaska’s transportation infrastructure in the early 20th century.
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C.
Al Cohn
Al Cohn was an American jazz tenor saxophonist, arranger, and composer known for his cool-toned style and influential work in the post–World War II jazz scene.
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D.
Edward Gleason
Edward Gleason is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Gleason, though specific widely known achievements or roles are not clearly established.
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E.
Walter Donaldson
Walter Donaldson was an American songwriter and composer best known for his prolific output of popular songs and film scores during the early 20th century.
- 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: Richard A. Whiting Target entity description: Richard A. Whiting was an American composer best known for writing popular standards such as "Hooray for Hollywood" and "On the Good Ship Lollipop."
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A.
Milton Ager
Milton Ager was an American songwriter and composer best known for his popular standards of the early 20th century, many of which became enduring hits of the Tin Pan Alley era.
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B.
James W. Steese
James W. Steese was an American military officer and engineer who played a significant role in the development of Alaska’s transportation infrastructure in the early 20th century.
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C.
Al Cohn
Al Cohn was an American jazz tenor saxophonist, arranger, and composer known for his cool-toned style and influential work in the post–World War II jazz scene.
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D.
Edward Gleason
Edward Gleason is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Gleason, though specific widely known achievements or roles are not clearly established.
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E.
Walter Donaldson
Walter Donaldson was an American songwriter and composer best known for his prolific output of popular songs and film scores during the early 20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American composer
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composer ⓘ human ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activeIn | Tin Pan Alley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| child |
Barbara Whiting
NERFINISHED
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Margaret Whiting NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
Buddy DeSylva
NERFINISHED
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Gus Kahn NERFINISHED ⓘ Johnny Mercer NERFINISHED ⓘ Ray Egan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Whiting NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film score composition
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popular songwriting ⓘ |
| genre |
Tin Pan Alley
NERFINISHED
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film music ⓘ popular music ⓘ |
| givenName | Richard ⓘ |
| influenced | Margaret Whiting NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| middleName | Armstrong NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Richard A. Whiting NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
contributions to early Hollywood film music
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writing American popular standards ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Ain't We Got Fun?
NERFINISHED
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Beyond the Blue Horizon NERFINISHED ⓘ Hooray for Hollywood NERFINISHED ⓘ On the Good Ship Lollipop NERFINISHED ⓘ She's Funny That Way NERFINISHED ⓘ Sleepy Time Gal NERFINISHED ⓘ The Japanese Sandman NERFINISHED ⓘ Till We Meet Again NERFINISHED ⓘ Too Marvelous for Words NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
composer
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songwriter ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workedOn | Hollywood film music ⓘ |
| wroteSong |
Ain't We Got Fun?
NERFINISHED
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Beyond the Blue Horizon NERFINISHED ⓘ Hooray for Hollywood NERFINISHED ⓘ On the Good Ship Lollipop NERFINISHED ⓘ Sleepy Time Gal NERFINISHED ⓘ The Japanese Sandman NERFINISHED ⓘ Till We Meet Again NERFINISHED ⓘ Too Marvelous for Words NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Richard A. Whiting Description of subject: Richard A. Whiting was an American composer best known for writing popular standards such as "Hooray for Hollywood" and "On the Good Ship Lollipop."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Richard Whiting
this entity surface form:
Richard Whiting