Jennifer Holliday
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Jennifer Holliday is an American singer and actress best known for originating the role of Effie White in the Broadway musical "Dreamgirls" and delivering its iconic showstopper "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going."
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1235741 — 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: Jennifer Holliday Context triple: [And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going (Dreamgirls version), originalStagePerformer, Jennifer Holliday]
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Leontyne Price
Leontyne Price is an acclaimed American soprano renowned for her pioneering international opera career and as one of the first African American singers to achieve stardom at the Metropolitan Opera.
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Lena Horne
Lena Horne was an acclaimed American singer, actress, and civil rights activist renowned for her work in jazz and popular music as well as her groundbreaking roles in film and television.
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Dionne Warwick
Dionne Warwick is an American singer and actress renowned for her soulful pop and R&B hits, particularly her collaborations with songwriters Burt Bacharach and Hal David.
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Audra McDonald
Audra McDonald is a highly acclaimed American actress and singer, renowned for her record-breaking number of Tony Awards and powerful performances on Broadway, television, and film.
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Jennifer Hudson
Jennifer Hudson is an American singer and actress renowned for her powerful vocals, Academy Award–winning performance in "Dreamgirls," and success on both stage and screen.
- 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: Jennifer Holliday Target entity description: Jennifer Holliday is an American singer and actress best known for originating the role of Effie White in the Broadway musical "Dreamgirls" and delivering its iconic showstopper "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going."
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A.
Leontyne Price
Leontyne Price is an acclaimed American soprano renowned for her pioneering international opera career and as one of the first African American singers to achieve stardom at the Metropolitan Opera.
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B.
Lena Horne
Lena Horne was an acclaimed American singer, actress, and civil rights activist renowned for her work in jazz and popular music as well as her groundbreaking roles in film and television.
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C.
Dionne Warwick
Dionne Warwick is an American singer and actress renowned for her soulful pop and R&B hits, particularly her collaborations with songwriters Burt Bacharach and Hal David.
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D.
Audra McDonald
Audra McDonald is a highly acclaimed American actress and singer, renowned for her record-breaking number of Tony Awards and powerful performances on Broadway, television, and film.
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E.
Jennifer Hudson
Jennifer Hudson is an American singer and actress renowned for her powerful vocals, Academy Award–winning performance in "Dreamgirls," and success on both stage and screen.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Jennifer Holliday Description of subject: Jennifer Holliday is an American singer and actress best known for originating the role of Effie White in the Broadway musical "Dreamgirls" and delivering its iconic showstopper "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going."
Referenced by (39)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going (Dreamgirls version)
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originalStagePerformer
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Jennifer Holliday
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And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going
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awardsContext
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Jennifer Holliday won Tony Award for Dreamgirls performance including this song
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linked to: Jennifer Holliday
linked to: Jennifer Holliday
subject linked to:
Holliday
subject linked to:
Deena Jones in Dreamgirls
linked to: Jennifer Holliday
subject linked to:
Effie White from lead singer