Holliday
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Holliday is a surname most famously associated with American singer and actress Jennifer Holliday, renowned for her Tony- and Grammy-winning performance in the original Broadway production of "Dreamgirls."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Holliday canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7785617 — 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: Holliday Context triple: [Jennifer Holliday, familyName, Holliday]
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A.
Hallidie
Hallidie is a surname most notably associated with Andrew Smith Hallidie, the 19th-century engineer credited with pioneering San Francisco’s cable car system.
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B.
Deneen
Deneen is a surname most notably associated with Charles S. Deneen, an American politician who served as governor of Illinois and later as a U.S. senator.
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C.
Hodierna
Hodierna is an Italian surname most notably associated with the 17th-century astronomer Giovanni Battista Hodierna.
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D.
Holloway
Holloway is a district in the London Borough of Islington, England, known for its urban character and as the area surrounding Arsenal FC’s Emirates Stadium.
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E.
Hale
Hale is a surname most notably associated with American solar astronomer George Ellery Hale, a pioneer in the development of modern astrophysical observatories.
- 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: Holliday Target entity description: Holliday is a surname most famously associated with American singer and actress Jennifer Holliday, renowned for her Tony- and Grammy-winning performance in the original Broadway production of "Dreamgirls."
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A.
Hallidie
Hallidie is a surname most notably associated with Andrew Smith Hallidie, the 19th-century engineer credited with pioneering San Francisco’s cable car system.
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B.
Deneen
Deneen is a surname most notably associated with Charles S. Deneen, an American politician who served as governor of Illinois and later as a U.S. senator.
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C.
Hodierna
Hodierna is an Italian surname most notably associated with the 17th-century astronomer Giovanni Battista Hodierna.
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D.
Holloway
Holloway is a district in the London Borough of Islington, England, known for its urban character and as the area surrounding Arsenal FC’s Emirates Stadium.
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E.
Hale
Hale is a surname most notably associated with American solar astronomer George Ellery Hale, a pioneer in the development of modern astrophysical observatories.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Broadway musical
ⓘ
actress ⓘ human ⓘ musical theatre actress ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Academy Award for Best Actress
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Grammy Award for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance NERFINISHED ⓘ Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
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United States of America ⓘ United States of America ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| genre |
R&B
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R&B ⓘ gospel music ⓘ musical theatre ⓘ soul music ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Doc Holliday
NERFINISHED
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J. Holiday NERFINISHED ⓘ Jennifer Holliday NERFINISHED ⓘ Judy Holliday NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPerformer | Jennifer Holliday NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasVariant | Holiday ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject | music industry ⓘ |
| notableRole | Effie White in Dreamgirls NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | Dreamgirls NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
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actress ⓘ dentist ⓘ gambler ⓘ gunfighter ⓘ singer ⓘ singer ⓘ |
| originalBroadwayProductionStartDate | 1981 ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
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: Holliday Description of subject: Holliday is a surname most famously associated with American singer and actress Jennifer Holliday, renowned for her Tony- and Grammy-winning performance in the original Broadway production of "Dreamgirls."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.