Lance Bass
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Lance Bass is an American singer, actor, and producer best known as a member of the boy band *NSYNC.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lance Bass canonical | 16 |
| James Lance Bass | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3776963 — 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: Lance Bass Context triple: [Dancing with the Stars (US) season 7, thirdPlace, Lance Bass]
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A.
Kevin Federline
Kevin Federline is an American dancer, rapper, and former backup performer best known for his highly publicized marriage to pop star Britney Spears.
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B.
Robbie Fairchild
Robbie Fairchild is an American ballet dancer and actor, formerly a principal with New York City Ballet, who has also appeared in major stage and film musicals.
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C.
James Parnell Spears
James Parnell Spears is the father of pop star Britney Spears and a central figure in the controversial conservatorship that controlled much of her personal and financial life for over a decade.
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D.
Donnie Wahlberg
Donnie Wahlberg is an American singer, actor, and producer best known as a founding member of the boy band New Kids on the Block and for his roles in films like "The Sixth Sense" and the TV series "Blue Bloods."
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E.
Teddy Riley
Teddy Riley is an American singer, songwriter, and producer widely credited with pioneering the new jack swing genre that fused R&B with hip-hop.
- 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: Lance Bass Target entity description: Lance Bass is an American singer, actor, and producer best known as a member of the boy band *NSYNC.
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A.
Kevin Federline
Kevin Federline is an American dancer, rapper, and former backup performer best known for his highly publicized marriage to pop star Britney Spears.
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B.
Robbie Fairchild
Robbie Fairchild is an American ballet dancer and actor, formerly a principal with New York City Ballet, who has also appeared in major stage and film musicals.
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C.
James Parnell Spears
James Parnell Spears is the father of pop star Britney Spears and a central figure in the controversial conservatorship that controlled much of her personal and financial life for over a decade.
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D.
Donnie Wahlberg
Donnie Wahlberg is an American singer, actor, and producer best known as a founding member of the boy band New Kids on the Block and for his roles in films like "The Sixth Sense" and the TV series "Blue Bloods."
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E.
Teddy Riley
Teddy Riley is an American singer, songwriter, and producer widely credited with pioneering the new jack swing genre that fused R&B with hip-hop.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
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human ⓘ radio host ⓘ record producer ⓘ singer ⓘ television producer ⓘ |
| birthName |
Lance Bass
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
James Lance Bass
|
| child |
twin daughter (via surrogate)
ⓘ
twin son (via surrogate) ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1979-05-04 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Clinton High School (Clinton, Mississippi) ⓘ |
| employer | Pop2K (Sirius XM) ⓘ |
| eyeColor | blue ⓘ |
| familyName | Bass ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film
ⓘ
music industry ⓘ television ⓘ |
| genre |
dance-pop
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pop ⓘ teen pop ⓘ |
| givenName |
James
ⓘ
Lance ⓘ |
| hairColor | brown ⓘ |
| hasTwinChildren | true ⓘ |
| instrument | vocals ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| marriageDate | 2014-12-20 ⓘ |
| memberOf | NSYNC ⓘ |
| name | Lance Bass self-link ⓘ |
| notableEvent | publicly came out as gay in 2006 ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Frosted Tips with Lance Bass (podcast)
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Out of Sync (memoir) ⓘ The Lance Bass Show (podcast) ⓘ member of boy band NSYNC ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
author ⓘ dancer ⓘ radio personality ⓘ record producer ⓘ singer ⓘ television producer ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Dancing with the Stars (US) season 7
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surface form:
Dancing with the Stars (U.S. season 7)
|
| placeOfBirth |
Laurel, Mississippi
ⓘ
surface form:
Laurel, Mississippi, United States
|
| religion |
Baptists
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surface form:
Southern Baptist (raised)
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| residence |
Los Angeles
ⓘ
surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
|
| sexualOrientation | gay ⓘ |
| spouse | Michael Turchin ⓘ |
| voiceType | baritone ⓘ |
| website | https://www.lancebass.com/ ⓘ |
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: Lance Bass Description of subject: Lance Bass is an American singer, actor, and producer best known as a member of the boy band *NSYNC.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
James Lance Bass