Benny Kornegay
E143820
Benny Kornegay was a dancer and dockworker best known as the briefly married second husband of jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Benny Kornegay canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T656927 — 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: Benny Kornegay Context triple: [Ella Fitzgerald, spouse, Benny Kornegay]
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A.
Roy Hinson
Roy Hinson is a former American professional basketball player and standout forward from Rutgers University who played several seasons in the NBA during the 1980s.
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B.
Semeka Randall
Semeka Randall is a former American college basketball star and WNBA guard best known for her standout career under coach Pat Summitt at the University of Tennessee.
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C.
Dennis Byrd
Dennis Byrd was an American defensive lineman for the New York Jets whose promising NFL career was tragically cut short by a paralyzing on-field injury, after which he became a symbol of courage and inspiration.
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D.
Ricky Hunley
Ricky Hunley is a former American football linebacker and coach best known as a College Football Hall of Famer and standout player at the University of Arizona who went on to play in the NFL.
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E.
Lonnie Lynn
Lonnie Lynn was an American jazz musician and poet best known as the father of rapper Common and for his spoken-word appearances on his son's albums.
- 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: Benny Kornegay Target entity description: Benny Kornegay was a dancer and dockworker best known as the briefly married second husband of jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald.
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A.
Roy Hinson
Roy Hinson is a former American professional basketball player and standout forward from Rutgers University who played several seasons in the NBA during the 1980s.
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B.
Semeka Randall
Semeka Randall is a former American college basketball star and WNBA guard best known for her standout career under coach Pat Summitt at the University of Tennessee.
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C.
Dennis Byrd
Dennis Byrd was an American defensive lineman for the New York Jets whose promising NFL career was tragically cut short by a paralyzing on-field injury, after which he became a symbol of courage and inspiration.
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D.
Ricky Hunley
Ricky Hunley is a former American football linebacker and coach best known as a College Football Hall of Famer and standout player at the University of Arizona who went on to play in the NFL.
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E.
Lonnie Lynn
Lonnie Lynn was an American jazz musician and poet best known as the father of rapper Common and for his spoken-word appearances on his son's albums.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (8)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| marriageDurationWithEllaFitzgerald | brief ⓘ |
| marriageOrderWithEllaFitzgerald | second husband ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the second husband of Ella Fitzgerald ⓘ |
| occupation |
dancer
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dockworker ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Ella Fitzgerald ⓘ |
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: Benny Kornegay Description of subject: Benny Kornegay was a dancer and dockworker best known as the briefly married second husband of jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.