Galt MacDermot
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Galt MacDermot was a Canadian-American composer and pianist best known for his innovative, funk-infused scores for stage and film, including the landmark musical "Hair."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Galt MacDermot canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10836542 — 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: Galt MacDermot Context triple: [Cotton Comes to Harlem, musicBy, Galt MacDermot]
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A.
Jeff Glixman
Jeff Glixman is an American record producer best known for his work with rock bands such as Kansas and for producing influential albums in the 1970s and 1980s.
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B.
Clarence Wilson
Clarence Wilson was an American character actor of the early 20th century, known for his frequent portrayals of stern or officious authority figures in numerous Hollywood films.
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C.
Maury Yeston
Maury Yeston is an American composer and lyricist best known for his work on Broadway musicals such as "Nine," "Titanic," and "Grand Hotel," for which he has won multiple Tony Awards.
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D.
Jay Graydon
Jay Graydon is an American guitarist, songwriter, and Grammy-winning producer known for his sophisticated pop and jazz fusion work with artists such as Steely Dan, Al Jarreau, and Airplay.
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E.
Jerry Livingston
Jerry Livingston was an American songwriter and composer best known for his popular film and pop standards, including work on classic Disney songs.
- 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: Galt MacDermot Target entity description: Galt MacDermot was a Canadian-American composer and pianist best known for his innovative, funk-infused scores for stage and film, including the landmark musical "Hair."
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A.
Jeff Glixman
Jeff Glixman is an American record producer best known for his work with rock bands such as Kansas and for producing influential albums in the 1970s and 1980s.
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B.
Clarence Wilson
Clarence Wilson was an American character actor of the early 20th century, known for his frequent portrayals of stern or officious authority figures in numerous Hollywood films.
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C.
Maury Yeston
Maury Yeston is an American composer and lyricist best known for his work on Broadway musicals such as "Nine," "Titanic," and "Grand Hotel," for which he has won multiple Tony Awards.
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D.
Jay Graydon
Jay Graydon is an American guitarist, songwriter, and Grammy-winning producer known for his sophisticated pop and jazz fusion work with artists such as Steely Dan, Al Jarreau, and Airplay.
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E.
Jerry Livingston
Jerry Livingston was an American songwriter and composer best known for his popular film and pop standards, including work on classic Disney songs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
composer
ⓘ
human ⓘ record producer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Grammy Award for Song of the Year ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Canada
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1928-12-18 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2018-12-17 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Bishop’s University
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cape Town University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | MacDermot NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| founded | Kilmarnock Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Arthur Terence Galt MacDermot NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
funk
ⓘ
jazz ⓘ musical theatre ⓘ |
| givenName |
Arthur
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Galt NERFINISHED ⓘ Terence NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| instrument | piano ⓘ |
| knownFor |
innovative funk-infused theatre scores
ⓘ
score for the musical Hair ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| movement | counterculture of the 1960s ⓘ |
| notableSong |
African Waltz
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Aquarius NERFINISHED ⓘ Good Morning Starshine NERFINISHED ⓘ Hair NERFINISHED ⓘ Let the Sunshine In NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Dude
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hair NERFINISHED ⓘ Isabel’s a Jezebel NERFINISHED ⓘ The Human Comedy NERFINISHED ⓘ Two Gentlemen of Verona NERFINISHED ⓘ Via Galactica NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
composer
ⓘ
pianist ⓘ record producer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Canada
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Montreal NERFINISHED ⓘ Quebec NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
New York
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ Staten Island NERFINISHED ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| spouse | Marilyn Dee MacDermot 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: Galt MacDermot Description of subject: Galt MacDermot was a Canadian-American composer and pianist best known for his innovative, funk-infused scores for stage and film, including the landmark musical "Hair."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.