Percy Sledge
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Percy Sledge was an American soul and R&B singer best known for his emotive 1966 hit "When a Man Loves a Woman."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Percy Sledge canonical | 23 |
| Percy Tyrone Sledge | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3765572 — 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: Percy Sledge Context triple: [That's How Strong My Love Is, notableCoverArtist, Percy Sledge]
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A.
Wilson Pickett
Wilson Pickett was an influential American soul and R&B singer known for his powerful, gritty vocals and classic hits like "In the Midnight Hour" and "Mustang Sally."
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B.
Levi Stubbs
Levi Stubbs was the powerful lead vocalist of the Motown group The Four Tops, renowned for his emotive baritone voice on hits like "Reach Out I'll Be There" and "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)."
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C.
Ben E. King
Ben E. King was an American soul and R&B singer best known for his classic hit "Stand by Me" and his work with The Drifters.
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D.
Teddy Pendergrass
Teddy Pendergrass was a renowned American R&B and soul singer known for his powerful, emotive vocals and a string of hits in the 1970s and 1980s, both as lead singer of Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes and as a solo artist.
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E.
Sam Moore
Sam Moore is an American soul singer best known as one half of the influential 1960s duo Sam & Dave, famed for hits like "Soul Man" and "Hold On, I'm Comin'."
- 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: Percy Sledge Target entity description: Percy Sledge was an American soul and R&B singer best known for his emotive 1966 hit "When a Man Loves a Woman."
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A.
Wilson Pickett
Wilson Pickett was an influential American soul and R&B singer known for his powerful, gritty vocals and classic hits like "In the Midnight Hour" and "Mustang Sally."
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B.
Levi Stubbs
Levi Stubbs was the powerful lead vocalist of the Motown group The Four Tops, renowned for his emotive baritone voice on hits like "Reach Out I'll Be There" and "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)."
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C.
Ben E. King
Ben E. King was an American soul and R&B singer best known for his classic hit "Stand by Me" and his work with The Drifters.
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D.
Teddy Pendergrass
Teddy Pendergrass was a renowned American R&B and soul singer known for his powerful, emotive vocals and a string of hits in the 1970s and 1980s, both as lead singer of Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes and as a solo artist.
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E.
Sam Moore
Sam Moore is an American soul singer best known as one half of the influential 1960s duo Sam & Dave, famed for hits like "Soul Man" and "Hold On, I'm Comin'."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: Percy Sledge Description of subject: Percy Sledge was an American soul and R&B singer best known for his emotive 1966 hit "When a Man Loves a Woman."
Referenced by (24)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
That’s How Strong My Love Is
subject linked to:
Fame Studios, Muscle Shoals
linked to: Percy Sledge
subject linked to:
Percy Sledge
subject linked to:
documentary film "Muscle Shoals"