Jeffrey Osborne
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Jeffrey Osborne is an American R&B and soul singer, songwriter, and former lead vocalist of the band L.T.D., known for his smooth vocals and romantic ballads.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jeffrey Osborne canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13166635 — 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: Jeffrey Osborne Context triple: [In Your Eyes, recordedBy, Jeffrey Osborne]
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A.
Kim Carnes
Kim Carnes is an American singer-songwriter best known for her raspy voice and the 1981 hit single "Bette Davis Eyes."
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B.
Don James
Don James was a highly successful American college football coach best known for leading the University of Washington Huskies to national prominence, including a share of the 1991 national championship.
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C.
Michael Bolton
Michael Bolton is an American singer and songwriter known for his powerful, soulful ballads and successful pop and adult contemporary hits, especially in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
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D.
Peabo Bryson
Peabo Bryson is an American R&B and soul singer best known for his powerful ballads and duets, including several hit Disney movie theme songs.
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E.
Ronnie Milsap
Ronnie Milsap is an American country music singer and pianist known for his smooth, pop-influenced sound and a long string of chart-topping hits from the 1970s through the 1980s.
- 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: Jeffrey Osborne Target entity description: Jeffrey Osborne is an American R&B and soul singer, songwriter, and former lead vocalist of the band L.T.D., known for his smooth vocals and romantic ballads.
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A.
Kim Carnes
Kim Carnes is an American singer-songwriter best known for her raspy voice and the 1981 hit single "Bette Davis Eyes."
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B.
Don James
Don James was a highly successful American college football coach best known for leading the University of Washington Huskies to national prominence, including a share of the 1991 national championship.
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C.
Michael Bolton
Michael Bolton is an American singer and songwriter known for his powerful, soulful ballads and successful pop and adult contemporary hits, especially in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
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D.
Peabo Bryson
Peabo Bryson is an American R&B and soul singer best known for his powerful ballads and duets, including several hit Disney movie theme songs.
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E.
Ronnie Milsap
Ronnie Milsap is an American country music singer and pianist known for his smooth, pop-influenced sound and a long string of chart-topping hits from the 1970s through the 1980s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
R&B musician
ⓘ
human ⓘ recording artist ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ soul musician ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart |
1960s
ⓘ
as solo artist in early 1980s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Dionne Warwick
NERFINISHED
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George Duke NERFINISHED ⓘ James Ingram NERFINISHED ⓘ L.T.D. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1948-03-09 ⓘ |
| endTime | left L.T.D. in early 1980s ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | African-American ⓘ |
| familyName | Osborne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
R&B
ⓘ
quiet storm ⓘ soul ⓘ |
| givenName | Jeffrey ⓘ |
| instrument | vocals ⓘ |
| knownFor |
romantic ballads
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smooth vocals ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | L.T.D. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Jeffrey Osborne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nominatedFor | Grammy Award for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent | transitioned from band vocalist of L.T.D. to solo artist in the early 1980s ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Don't Stop (album)
NERFINISHED
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Don't You Get So Mad NERFINISHED ⓘ Emotional NERFINISHED ⓘ Emotional (album) NERFINISHED ⓘ I Really Don't Need No Light NERFINISHED ⓘ Jeffrey Osborne (album) NERFINISHED ⓘ Love Power NERFINISHED ⓘ On the Wings of Love NERFINISHED ⓘ Only Human NERFINISHED ⓘ Plane Love NERFINISHED ⓘ Stay with Me Tonight NERFINISHED ⓘ Stay with Me Tonight (album) NERFINISHED ⓘ The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (cover) NERFINISHED ⓘ We're Going All the Way NERFINISHED ⓘ You Should Be Mine (The Woo Woo Song) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
musician
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record producer ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Providence, Rhode Island, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | lead vocalist of L.T.D. ⓘ |
| residence |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| startTime | with L.T.D. in early 1970s ⓘ |
| vocalType | baritone ⓘ |
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: Jeffrey Osborne Description of subject: Jeffrey Osborne is an American R&B and soul singer, songwriter, and former lead vocalist of the band L.T.D., known for his smooth vocals and romantic ballads.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.