Jerry Vale
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Jerry Vale was an American traditional pop singer known for his smooth tenor voice and romantic ballads, particularly popular in the 1950s and 1960s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jerry Vale canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10954329 — 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: Jerry Vale Context triple: [Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, hasCoverVersionBy, Jerry Vale]
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A.
Ed Friendly
Ed Friendly was an American television producer best known for developing and producing influential series and miniseries in the 1960s and 1970s, including landmark works in drama and comedy.
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B.
Joe Williams
Joe Williams was a renowned American jazz and blues singer best known for his powerful baritone voice and celebrated recordings with the Count Basie Orchestra.
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C.
Joe Williams
Joe Williams is a cinematographer best known for his work on the comedy film "Coming 2 America."
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D.
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.
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E.
Billy May
Billy May was an American composer, arranger, and trumpeter best known for his swinging big band arrangements and collaborations with artists like Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole.
- 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: Jerry Vale Target entity description: Jerry Vale was an American traditional pop singer known for his smooth tenor voice and romantic ballads, particularly popular in the 1950s and 1960s.
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A.
Ed Friendly
Ed Friendly was an American television producer best known for developing and producing influential series and miniseries in the 1960s and 1970s, including landmark works in drama and comedy.
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B.
Joe Williams
Joe Williams was a renowned American jazz and blues singer best known for his powerful baritone voice and celebrated recordings with the Count Basie Orchestra.
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C.
Joe Williams
Joe Williams is a cinematographer best known for his work on the comedy film "Coming 2 America."
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D.
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.
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E.
Billy May
Billy May was an American composer, arranger, and trumpeter best known for his swinging big band arrangements and collaborations with artists like Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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recording artist ⓘ singer ⓘ traditional pop singer ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 2000s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1950 ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
Goodfellas
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Godfather NERFINISHED ⓘ The Godfather Part II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Italian-American crooner tradition ⓘ |
| birthName | Gennaro Louis Vitaliano NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Cathedral City, California, United States of America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | natural causes ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1930-07-08 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2014-05-18 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Italian American ⓘ |
| familyName | Vitaliano NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
easy listening
ⓘ
traditional pop ⓘ vocal music ⓘ |
| givenName | Gennaro NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasInstrument | voice ⓘ |
| languagesSpoken |
English
ⓘ
Italian ⓘ |
| name | Jerry Vale NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAlbum |
Arrivederci, Roma
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
I Have But One Heart NERFINISHED ⓘ The Language of Love NERFINISHED ⓘ Till the End of Time NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
romantic ballads
ⓘ
smooth tenor voice ⓘ |
| notableSongType |
Italian-themed songs
ⓘ
love songs ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Al Di La
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Have You Looked into Your Heart NERFINISHED ⓘ Innamorata NERFINISHED ⓘ You Don’t Know Me NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
singer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | The Bronx, New York City, New York, United States of America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Palm Desert, California, United States of America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| popularPeriod |
1950s
ⓘ
1960s ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Columbia Records ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Rita Grapel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stageName | Jerry Vale NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| vocalRange | tenor ⓘ |
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: Jerry Vale Description of subject: Jerry Vale was an American traditional pop singer known for his smooth tenor voice and romantic ballads, particularly popular in the 1950s and 1960s.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
"I'll Walk Alone"