k.d. lang
E236647
k.d. lang is a Canadian singer-songwriter known for her rich mezzo-soprano voice, genre-blending pop and country music, and acclaimed interpretations of classic songs.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| k.d. lang canonical | 13 |
| K.D. Lang | 3 |
| K. D. Lang | 1 |
| K.d. lang | 1 |
| k.d. lang and Roy Orbison duet reached UK Singles Chart top 20 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2142022 — 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: k.d. lang Context triple: [A Case of You, notableCoverVersionBy, k.d. lang]
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A.
Sarah McLachlan
Sarah McLachlan is a Canadian singer-songwriter known for her emotive mezzo-soprano voice, introspective ballads, and for founding the Lilith Fair tour celebrating women in music.
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B.
Anne Murray
Anne Murray is a Canadian country and pop singer known for her smooth alto voice and numerous hit recordings from the 1960s onward.
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C.
Shania Twain
Shania Twain is a Canadian country-pop singer and songwriter known for her multi-platinum albums and hits like "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" and "You're Still the One."
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D.
Sheryl Crow
Sheryl Crow is an American singer-songwriter and musician known for her blend of rock, pop, country, and folk influences and hits like "All I Wanna Do" and "If It Makes You Happy."
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E.
Judy Howard
Judy Howard was the wife of American actor Rance Howard and the mother of filmmaker Ron Howard and actor Clint Howard.
- 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: k.d. lang Target entity description: k.d. lang is a Canadian singer-songwriter known for her rich mezzo-soprano voice, genre-blending pop and country music, and acclaimed interpretations of classic songs.
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A.
Sarah McLachlan
Sarah McLachlan is a Canadian singer-songwriter known for her emotive mezzo-soprano voice, introspective ballads, and for founding the Lilith Fair tour celebrating women in music.
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B.
Anne Murray
Anne Murray is a Canadian country and pop singer known for her smooth alto voice and numerous hit recordings from the 1960s onward.
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C.
Shania Twain
Shania Twain is a Canadian country-pop singer and songwriter known for her multi-platinum albums and hits like "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" and "You're Still the One."
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D.
Sheryl Crow
Sheryl Crow is an American singer-songwriter and musician known for her blend of rock, pop, country, and folk influences and hits like "All I Wanna Do" and "If It Makes You Happy."
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E.
Judy Howard
Judy Howard was the wife of American actor Rance Howard and the mother of filmmaker Ron Howard and actor Clint Howard.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
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: k.d. lang Description of subject: k.d. lang is a Canadian singer-songwriter known for her rich mezzo-soprano voice, genre-blending pop and country music, and acclaimed interpretations of classic songs.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
K.d. lang
subject surface form:
Going to a Town
this entity surface form:
K.D. Lang
this entity surface form:
k.d. lang and Roy Orbison duet reached UK Singles Chart top 20
this entity surface form:
K.D. Lang
this entity surface form:
K.D. Lang
this entity surface form:
K. D. Lang