Penniman
E249697
Penniman is the surname of rock and roll pioneer Little Richard, whose full name was Richard Wayne Penniman.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Penniman canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2281598 — 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: Penniman Context triple: [Little Richard, familyName, Penniman]
-
A.
Payne
Payne is a small community located within Bibb County in the state of Georgia, United States.
-
B.
Payne
Payne is a residential and light commercial heating and cooling equipment brand owned by Carrier Corporation, known for offering budget-friendly HVAC systems.
-
C.
Shadrach Bond
Shadrach Bond was an American politician who became the first governor of the state of Illinois after it was admitted to the Union.
-
D.
Winston Silver
Winston Silver is a lighter, lower-tar and nicotine variant of the Winston brand of cigarettes.
-
E.
Booker
Booker is a prestigious annual literary award given for the best original novel written in English and published in the United Kingdom or Ireland.
- 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: Penniman Target entity description: Penniman is the surname of rock and roll pioneer Little Richard, whose full name was Richard Wayne Penniman.
-
A.
Payne
Payne is a small community located within Bibb County in the state of Georgia, United States.
-
B.
Payne
Payne is a residential and light commercial heating and cooling equipment brand owned by Carrier Corporation, known for offering budget-friendly HVAC systems.
-
C.
Shadrach Bond
Shadrach Bond was an American politician who became the first governor of the state of Illinois after it was admitted to the Union.
-
D.
Winston Silver
Winston Silver is a lighter, lower-tar and nicotine variant of the Winston brand of cigarettes.
-
E.
Booker
Booker is a prestigious annual literary award given for the best original novel written in English and published in the United Kingdom or Ireland.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
family name
ⓘ
human ⓘ human ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| birthName | Richard Wayne Penniman ⓘ |
| familyName |
Penniman
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
Penniman self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Little Richard
ⓘ
Richard Wayne Penniman ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| stageName | Little Richard ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Little Richard
ⓘ
Richard Wayne Penniman ⓘ |
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: Penniman Description of subject: Penniman is the surname of rock and roll pioneer Little Richard, whose full name was Richard Wayne Penniman.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Little Richard
subject surface form:
Richard Wayne Penniman