Eartha Kitt
E529499
American actress
American singer
actress
cabaret performer
film actress
human
stage actress
television actress
voice actress
Eartha Kitt was an American singer, actress, and cabaret star known for her distinctive voice, sultry performance style, and iconic roles in music, film, and television.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Eartha Kitt canonical | 21 |
| Eartha Kitt in The Emperor's New Groove | 1 |
| Eartha Mae Kitt | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5513763 — 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: Eartha Kitt Context triple: [Eric the Viking, stars, Eartha Kitt]
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A.
Lyn Collins
Lyn Collins was an American soul and funk singer known for her powerful vocals and collaborations with James Brown, including the classic track "Think (About It)."
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B.
Anita O'Day
Anita O'Day was an influential American jazz singer known for her rhythmic sophistication, cool vocal style, and celebrated performances with big bands and in bebop settings.
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C.
Julie London
Julie London was an American singer and actress renowned for her sultry, intimate vocal style and popular recordings in the 1950s and 1960s.
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D.
Helen Merrill
Helen Merrill is an American jazz vocalist renowned for her cool, introspective style and influential recordings with leading jazz musicians of the 1950s.
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E.
Odetta
Odetta was a pioneering American folk and blues singer whose powerful voice and politically charged repertoire made her a key musical figure in the civil rights movement and the mid-20th-century folk revival.
- 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: Eartha Kitt Target entity description: Eartha Kitt was an American singer, actress, and cabaret star known for her distinctive voice, sultry performance style, and iconic roles in music, film, and television.
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A.
Lyn Collins
Lyn Collins was an American soul and funk singer known for her powerful vocals and collaborations with James Brown, including the classic track "Think (About It)."
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B.
Anita O'Day
Anita O'Day was an influential American jazz singer known for her rhythmic sophistication, cool vocal style, and celebrated performances with big bands and in bebop settings.
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C.
Julie London
Julie London was an American singer and actress renowned for her sultry, intimate vocal style and popular recordings in the 1950s and 1960s.
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D.
Helen Merrill
Helen Merrill is an American jazz vocalist renowned for her cool, introspective style and influential recordings with leading jazz musicians of the 1950s.
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E.
Odetta
Odetta was a pioneering American folk and blues singer whose powerful voice and politically charged repertoire made her a key musical figure in the civil rights movement and the mid-20th-century folk revival.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actress
ⓘ
American singer ⓘ actress ⓘ cabaret performer ⓘ film actress ⓘ human ⓘ stage actress ⓘ television actress ⓘ voice actress ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Daytime Emmy Award
ⓘ
linked to:
Daytime Emmy Awards
Grammy Award nomination ⓘ Tony Award nomination ⓘ
linked to:
Tony Award
|
| birthName |
Eartha Mae Kitt
ⓘ
linked to:
Eartha Kitt
|
| causeOfDeath | colon cancer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1927-01-17 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2008-12-25 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
African American
ⓘ
linked to:
Black Americans
|
| familyName | Kitt ⓘ |
| genre |
cabaret
ⓘ
jazz ⓘ pop music ⓘ traditional pop ⓘ |
| givenName | Eartha ⓘ |
| languageOfPerformance |
English
ⓘ
French ⓘ German ⓘ Spanish ⓘ Turkish ⓘ |
| name | Eartha Kitt ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Batman (1960s TV series)
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C'est si bon ⓘ I Want to Be Evil ⓘ Santa Baby ⓘ The Emperor's New Groove ⓘ The Emperor's New School ⓘ Timbuktu! ⓘ Where Is My Man ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
ⓘ
cabaret performer ⓘ dancer ⓘ singer ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
North, South Carolina, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
North, South Carolina
|
| placeOfDeath |
Weston, Connecticut, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Weston, Connecticut
|
| politicalEvent | blacklisted in the United States after 1968 White House luncheon remarks on the Vietnam War ⓘ |
| role | Catwoman in Batman (1960s TV series) ⓘ |
| voiceRole |
Yzma in The Emperor's New Groove
ⓘ
linked to:
Yzma
Yzma in The Emperor's New School ⓘ
linked to:
Yzma
|
| yearsActive | 1940s–2008 ⓘ |
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: Eartha Kitt Description of subject: Eartha Kitt was an American singer, actress, and cabaret star known for her distinctive voice, sultry performance style, and iconic roles in music, film, and television.
Referenced by (23)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.