Ottis Dewey Whitman Jr.
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Ottis Dewey Whitman Jr., better known as Slim Whitman, was an American country and western singer famed for his smooth yodeling style and high tenor voice.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ottis Dewey Whitman Jr. canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9044278 — 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.
Target entity: Ottis Dewey Whitman Jr. Context triple: [Slim Whitman, birthName, Ottis Dewey Whitman Jr.]
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James Whittaker
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William Stetson Merrill
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John J. Dunbar
John J. Dunbar is the Union Army lieutenant portrayed by Kevin Costner in the film "Dances with Wolves," who gradually assimilates into a Lakota Sioux tribe on the American frontier.
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Peter Bent Brigham
Peter Bent Brigham was a 19th-century American businessman and philanthropist whose endowment led to the creation of a major Boston teaching hospital that later became part of Brigham and Women's Hospital.
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Charles Evans Whittaker
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Target entity: Ottis Dewey Whitman Jr. Target entity description: Ottis Dewey Whitman Jr., better known as Slim Whitman, was an American country and western singer famed for his smooth yodeling style and high tenor voice.
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A.
James Whittaker
James Whittaker was an early and influential leader of the Shaker religious movement in America, known for helping to organize and spread the sect’s communal, celibate, and egalitarian way of life.
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B.
William Stetson Merrill
William Stetson Merrill was an American librarian and classification theorist known for his influential work on library book classification and subject headings in the early 20th century.
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C.
John J. Dunbar
John J. Dunbar is the Union Army lieutenant portrayed by Kevin Costner in the film "Dances with Wolves," who gradually assimilates into a Lakota Sioux tribe on the American frontier.
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D.
Peter Bent Brigham
Peter Bent Brigham was a 19th-century American businessman and philanthropist whose endowment led to the creation of a major Boston teaching hospital that later became part of Brigham and Women's Hospital.
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E.
Charles Evans Whittaker
Charles Evans Whittaker was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court who served from 1957 to 1962 after a rapid rise through the federal judiciary.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
country singer
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guitarist ⓘ human ⓘ songwriter ⓘ yodeler ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Slim Whitman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | heart failure ⓘ |
| chartSuccess |
achieved major popularity in the United Kingdom
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had multiple hits on the Billboard country charts ⓘ |
| child | Byron Whitman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflictParticipatedIn | World War II ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1923-01-20 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2013-06-19 ⓘ |
| genre |
country music
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gospel music ⓘ western music ⓘ |
| influenceOn | country music yodeling tradition ⓘ |
| instrument |
guitar
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vocals ⓘ |
| marketing | widely promoted via television mail-order albums in the 1970s and 1980s ⓘ |
| militaryService | United States Navy ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
high tenor voice
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smooth yodeling style ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Indian Love Call
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Love Song of the Waterfall NERFINISHED ⓘ Rose Marie NERFINISHED ⓘ Secret Love NERFINISHED ⓘ Una Paloma Blanca NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 2 ⓘ |
| occupation |
musician
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singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Tampa, Florida, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Orange Park, Florida, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Imperial Records
NERFINISHED
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London Records NERFINISHED ⓘ United Artists Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| residence | Middleburg, Florida, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| signatureTechnique | falsetto yodeling ⓘ |
| spouse | Jerry Lee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stageName | Slim Whitman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| vocalType | tenor ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1940s–2000s ⓘ |
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Subject: Ottis Dewey Whitman Jr. Description of subject: Ottis Dewey Whitman Jr., better known as Slim Whitman, was an American country and western singer famed for his smooth yodeling style and high tenor voice.
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