Corey Brent Penn
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Corey Brent Penn, better known by his stage name CL Smooth, is an American rapper and lyricist best known as the vocal half of the hip hop duo Pete Rock & CL Smooth.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Corey Brent Penn canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8426081 — 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: Corey Brent Penn Context triple: [CL Smooth, birthName, Corey Brent Penn]
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A.
Frank Barone
Frank Barone is the gruff, sarcastic, and often insensitive yet ultimately loving father and grandfather from the sitcom "Everybody Loves Raymond."
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B.
John Stockwell
John Stockwell is an American film director, screenwriter, and actor known for helming stylish action and thriller films such as "Into the Blue."
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C.
Bryan Mills
Bryan Mills is the highly skilled former CIA operative and fiercely protective father portrayed by Liam Neeson in the Taken film series.
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D.
Roy Andrew Miller
Roy Andrew Miller was an American linguist renowned for his influential and controversial work on the proposed Altaic language family and for his broader contributions to East Asian linguistics.
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E.
Robert Sylvester Kelly
Robert Sylvester Kelly is an American R&B singer, songwriter, and record producer known for his influential hits as well as his highly publicized criminal convictions related to sexual abuse.
- 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: Corey Brent Penn Target entity description: Corey Brent Penn, better known by his stage name CL Smooth, is an American rapper and lyricist best known as the vocal half of the hip hop duo Pete Rock & CL Smooth.
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A.
Frank Barone
Frank Barone is the gruff, sarcastic, and often insensitive yet ultimately loving father and grandfather from the sitcom "Everybody Loves Raymond."
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B.
John Stockwell
John Stockwell is an American film director, screenwriter, and actor known for helming stylish action and thriller films such as "Into the Blue."
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C.
Bryan Mills
Bryan Mills is the highly skilled former CIA operative and fiercely protective father portrayed by Liam Neeson in the Taken film series.
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D.
Roy Andrew Miller
Roy Andrew Miller was an American linguist renowned for his influential and controversial work on the proposed Altaic language family and for his broader contributions to East Asian linguistics.
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E.
Robert Sylvester Kelly
Robert Sylvester Kelly is an American R&B singer, songwriter, and record producer known for his influential hits as well as his highly publicized criminal convictions related to sexual abuse.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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lyricist ⓘ rapper ⓘ |
| activeInDecade |
1990s
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2000s ⓘ 2010s ⓘ |
| basedIn |
New York City metropolitan area
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linked to:
New York metropolitan area
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| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| genre | hip hop ⓘ |
| hasMusicalRole | lead vocalist in Pete Rock & CL Smooth ⓘ |
| knownFor |
collaborations with producer Pete Rock
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smooth, conscious lyricism ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Pete Rock & CL Smooth ⓘ |
| notableAlias | CL Smooth ⓘ |
| notableSongWithPeteRock |
Lots of Lovin'
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Straighten It Out ⓘ Take You There ⓘ They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.) ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Lots of Lovin'
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Mecca and the Soul Brother ⓘ Straighten It Out ⓘ Take You There ⓘ The Main Ingredient ⓘ They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.) ⓘ |
| occupation |
lyricist
ⓘ
rapper ⓘ |
| partnerInDuoWith | Pete Rock ⓘ |
| partOf |
East Coast hip hop scene
ⓘ
linked to:
East Coast hip hop
|
| stageName | CL Smooth ⓘ |
| vocalRole | MC ⓘ |
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: Corey Brent Penn Description of subject: Corey Brent Penn, better known by his stage name CL Smooth, is an American rapper and lyricist best known as the vocal half of the hip hop duo Pete Rock & CL Smooth.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.