Amii Stewart
E1027103
Amii Stewart is an American disco and soul singer best known for her 1979 hit cover of "Knock on Wood."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Amii Stewart canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13205524 — 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: Amii Stewart Context triple: [Eddie Floyd, songCoveredBy, Amii Stewart]
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A.
Chantal Kreviazuk
Chantal Kreviazuk is a Canadian singer-songwriter and pianist known for her emotive pop-rock ballads and contributions to film and television soundtracks.
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B.
Marcia Hines
Marcia Hines is an American-Australian singer and television personality renowned as one of Australia's most successful and enduring pop and disco vocalists.
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C.
Jane Siberry
Jane Siberry is a Canadian singer-songwriter known for her eclectic, art-pop compositions and distinctive, ethereal vocal style.
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D.
Nicole Andrews
Nicole Andrews is an actress known for her role in the action film "Expend4bles."
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E.
Jann Arden
Jann Arden is a Canadian singer-songwriter and actress known for her emotive pop and adult contemporary music, including hits like "Insensitive."
- 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: Amii Stewart Target entity description: Amii Stewart is an American disco and soul singer best known for her 1979 hit cover of "Knock on Wood."
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A.
Chantal Kreviazuk
Chantal Kreviazuk is a Canadian singer-songwriter and pianist known for her emotive pop-rock ballads and contributions to film and television soundtracks.
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B.
Marcia Hines
Marcia Hines is an American-Australian singer and television personality renowned as one of Australia's most successful and enduring pop and disco vocalists.
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C.
Jane Siberry
Jane Siberry is a Canadian singer-songwriter known for her eclectic, art-pop compositions and distinctive, ethereal vocal style.
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D.
Nicole Andrews
Nicole Andrews is an actress known for her role in the action film "Expend4bles."
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E.
Jann Arden
Jann Arden is a Canadian singer-songwriter and actress known for her emotive pop and adult contemporary music, including hits like "Insensitive."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American singer
ⓘ
human ⓘ recording artist ⓘ singer ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1970s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Giancarlo Bigazzi
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mike Francis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Amy Paulette Stewart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chartAchievement | Knock on Wood reached number 1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 in 1979 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| coverOf | Knock on Wood (song by Eddie Floyd) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1956-01-29 ⓘ |
| decadeOfProminence |
1970s
ⓘ
1980s ⓘ |
| ethnicity | African-American ⓘ |
| familyName | Stewart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
R&B
ⓘ
disco ⓘ soul ⓘ |
| givenName | Amy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLivedIn | Italy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMusicalStyle |
dance music
ⓘ
pop ⓘ |
| hasPerformedIn |
Italy
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hitSingle | Knock on Wood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfPerformance | English ⓘ |
| name | Amii Stewart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAlbum |
Images
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Knock on Wood (1979 album) NERFINISHED ⓘ Paradise Bird NERFINISHED ⓘ Time for Fantasy NERFINISHED ⓘ Try Love NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | 1979 hit cover of Knock on Wood ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Friends
NERFINISHED
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Knock on Wood NERFINISHED ⓘ Light My Fire / 137 Disco Heaven NERFINISHED ⓘ The Letter NERFINISHED ⓘ Working Late Tonight NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
ⓘ
dancer ⓘ singer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Atlantic Records
ⓘ
Hansa Records NERFINISHED ⓘ RCA Records ⓘ |
| vocalType | mezzo-soprano ⓘ |
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: Amii Stewart Description of subject: Amii Stewart is an American disco and soul singer best known for her 1979 hit cover of "Knock on Wood."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.