Cleavant Derricks
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Cleavant Derricks is an American actor and singer best known for his Tony Award–winning performance in the Broadway musical "Dreamgirls" and his role as Rembrandt Brown on the science fiction TV series "Sliders."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cleavant Derricks canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7354869 — 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: Cleavant Derricks Context triple: [The Slugger’s Wife, castMember, Cleavant Derricks]
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A.
Derek Duke
Derek Duke is a composer best known for creating music for Blizzard Entertainment games, particularly the World of Warcraft series.
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B.
Melville Tucker
Melville Tucker is a film producer best known for his work on the 1980 comedy movie "Stir Crazy."
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C.
Brake Baldwin
Brake Baldwin is a fictional character from the television drama series "The Missing."
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D.
Max Drummey
Max Drummey is an American musician best known as the guitarist and co-founder of the indie pop band Chester French.
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E.
Rodman Flender
Rodman Flender is an American film and television director, producer, and occasional actor known for work on projects such as "Idle Hands," "The Office," and various documentaries.
- 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: Cleavant Derricks Target entity description: Cleavant Derricks is an American actor and singer best known for his Tony Award–winning performance in the Broadway musical "Dreamgirls" and his role as Rembrandt Brown on the science fiction TV series "Sliders."
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A.
Derek Duke
Derek Duke is a composer best known for creating music for Blizzard Entertainment games, particularly the World of Warcraft series.
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B.
Melville Tucker
Melville Tucker is a film producer best known for his work on the 1980 comedy movie "Stir Crazy."
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C.
Brake Baldwin
Brake Baldwin is a fictional character from the television drama series "The Missing."
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D.
Max Drummey
Max Drummey is an American musician best known as the guitarist and co-founder of the indie pop band Chester French.
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E.
Rodman Flender
Rodman Flender is an American film and television director, producer, and occasional actor known for work on projects such as "Idle Hands," "The Office," and various documentaries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
ⓘ
human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Drama Desk Award
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Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
African American
ⓘ
linked to:
Black Americans
|
| familyName | Derricks ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
music
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performing arts ⓘ |
| genre | musical theatre ⓘ |
| givenName | Cleavant ⓘ |
| hasRelative | Clinton Derricks-Carroll ⓘ |
| knownFor |
role of James "Thunder" Early in Dreamgirls
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role of Rembrandt Brown in Sliders ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Cleavant Derricks ⓘ |
| notableRole |
James "Thunder" Early
ⓘ
Rembrandt "Crying Man" Brown ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Dreamgirls
ⓘ
linked to:
Dreamgirls original Broadway cast recording
Sliders ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
composer ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| performedIn |
Broadway musical Dreamgirls
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Broadway production of Big Deal ⓘ Broadway production of Brooklyn ⓘ Broadway production of But Never Jam Today ⓘ Broadway production of Hair ⓘ Broadway production of The Full Monty ⓘ film Bluffing It ⓘ film Carnival of Souls (1998) ⓘ film Moscow on the Hudson ⓘ film Sliders: The Pilot ⓘ
linked to:
Sliders
television series Charmed ⓘ television series Cold Case ⓘ television series Drexell's Class ⓘ television series Good Sports ⓘ television series Miami Vice ⓘ television series Roseanne ⓘ
linked to:
Roseanne
television series Sliders ⓘ
linked to:
Sliders
television series Spenser: For Hire ⓘ television series The Equalizer ⓘ
linked to:
The Equalizer (1985 TV series)
television series The Practice ⓘ |
| sibling | Clinton Derricks-Carroll ⓘ |
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: Cleavant Derricks Description of subject: Cleavant Derricks is an American actor and singer best known for his Tony Award–winning performance in the Broadway musical "Dreamgirls" and his role as Rembrandt Brown on the science fiction TV series "Sliders."
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.