Cuba Gooding Sr.
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Cuba Gooding Sr. was an American soul singer best known as the lead vocalist of the 1970s group The Main Ingredient, which had hits like "Everybody Plays the Fool."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Cuba Gooding Sr. canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3271757 — 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: Cuba Gooding Sr. Context triple: [Cuba Gooding Jr., father, Cuba Gooding Sr.]
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Cuba Gooding Jr.
Cuba Gooding Jr. is an American actor best known for his Academy Award–winning performance in "Jerry Maguire" and prominent roles in films such as "Boyz n the Hood" and "Men of Honor."
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B.
Eddie Clarence Murray
Eddie Clarence Murray is a Hall of Fame American former Major League Baseball first baseman and designated hitter, best known for his long career primarily with the Baltimore Orioles and his reputation as one of the game's most consistent switch-hitters.
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C.
Stephen McKinley Henderson
Stephen McKinley Henderson is an American character actor known for his acclaimed work in film, television, and theater, including a supporting role in the 2021 adaptation of "Dune."
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D.
Louis Gossett Jr.
Louis Gossett Jr. was an acclaimed American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role in the miniseries "Roots" and his Oscar-winning performance in "An Officer and a Gentleman."
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E.
Troy Garity
Troy Garity is an American actor known for roles in films such as "Barbershop," "Soldier's Girl," and "Sunshine," as well as for being the son of actress Jane Fonda.
- 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: Cuba Gooding Sr. Target entity description: Cuba Gooding Sr. was an American soul singer best known as the lead vocalist of the 1970s group The Main Ingredient, which had hits like "Everybody Plays the Fool."
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A.
Cuba Gooding Jr.
Cuba Gooding Jr. is an American actor best known for his Academy Award–winning performance in "Jerry Maguire" and prominent roles in films such as "Boyz n the Hood" and "Men of Honor."
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B.
Eddie Clarence Murray
Eddie Clarence Murray is a Hall of Fame American former Major League Baseball first baseman and designated hitter, best known for his long career primarily with the Baltimore Orioles and his reputation as one of the game's most consistent switch-hitters.
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C.
Stephen McKinley Henderson
Stephen McKinley Henderson is an American character actor known for his acclaimed work in film, television, and theater, including a supporting role in the 2021 adaptation of "Dune."
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D.
Louis Gossett Jr.
Louis Gossett Jr. was an acclaimed American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role in the miniseries "Roots" and his Oscar-winning performance in "An Officer and a Gentleman."
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E.
Troy Garity
Troy Garity is an American actor known for roles in films such as "Barbershop," "Soldier's Girl," and "Sunshine," as well as for being the son of actress Jane Fonda.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
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: Cuba Gooding Sr. Description of subject: Cuba Gooding Sr. was an American soul singer best known as the lead vocalist of the 1970s group The Main Ingredient, which had hits like "Everybody Plays the Fool."
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.