Montell Jordan
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Montell Jordan is an American R&B singer, songwriter, and record producer best known for his 1995 hit single "This Is How We Do It."
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Montell | 1 |
| Montell Du’Sean Barnett | 1 |
| Montell Jordan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10141738 — 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: Montell Jordan Context triple: [Shep Crawford, workedWith, Montell Jordan]
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A.
Marques Houston
Marques Houston is an American R&B singer, songwriter, and actor best known as a member of the group Immature/IMx and for his roles in television and film.
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B.
Majid Jordan
Majid Jordan is a Canadian R&B and pop duo known for their atmospheric production, smooth vocals, and frequent collaborations with Drake and OVO Sound.
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C.
Brian McKnight
Brian McKnight is an American R&B singer, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist known for his smooth vocals and romantic ballads.
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D.
Mase
Mase is an American rapper and songwriter best known for his late-1990s success with Bad Boy Records and his smooth, laid-back delivery on hits like "Feel So Good" and "What You Want."
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E.
Keith Sweat
Keith Sweat is an American R&B singer, songwriter, and producer known as a pioneer of the New Jack Swing era with hits like "I Want Her" and "Twisted."
- 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: Montell Jordan Target entity description: Montell Jordan is an American R&B singer, songwriter, and record producer best known for his 1995 hit single "This Is How We Do It."
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A.
Marques Houston
Marques Houston is an American R&B singer, songwriter, and actor best known as a member of the group Immature/IMx and for his roles in television and film.
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B.
Majid Jordan
Majid Jordan is a Canadian R&B and pop duo known for their atmospheric production, smooth vocals, and frequent collaborations with Drake and OVO Sound.
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C.
Brian McKnight
Brian McKnight is an American R&B singer, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist known for his smooth vocals and romantic ballads.
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D.
Mase
Mase is an American rapper and songwriter best known for his late-1990s success with Bad Boy Records and his smooth, laid-back delivery on hits like "Feel So Good" and "What You Want."
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E.
Keith Sweat
Keith Sweat is an American R&B singer, songwriter, and producer known as a pioneer of the New Jack Swing era with hits like "I Want Her" and "Twisted."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
R&B musician
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album ⓘ human ⓘ record producer ⓘ song ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1994 ⓘ |
| album |
Get It On...Tonite
NERFINISHED
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Let It Rain NERFINISHED ⓘ Let's Ride NERFINISHED ⓘ Life After Def NERFINISHED ⓘ Montell Jordan NERFINISHED ⓘ More... NERFINISHED ⓘ This Is How We Do It NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| artist | Montell Jordan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedAct | Def Soul NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Montell Du'Sean Barnett Jordan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1968-12-03 ⓘ |
| debutAlbum | This Is How We Do It NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| degree | bachelor's degree in communications ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Pepperdine University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
R&B
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R&B ⓘ hip hop soul ⓘ new jack swing ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| laterCareer | worship leader at Victory World Church in Norcross, Georgia ⓘ |
| marriageStart | 1994 ⓘ |
| name | Montell Jordan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Get It On Tonite
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
This Is How We Do It NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 4 ⓘ |
| occupation |
pastor
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record producer ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| performer |
Montell Jordan
NERFINISHED
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Montell Jordan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Los Angeles, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1995-04-04 ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Def Jam Recordings
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Def Jam Recordings ⓘ Island Records ⓘ Koch Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1995-02-06 ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| spouse | Kristin Hudson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Montell Jordan Description of subject: Montell Jordan is an American R&B singer, songwriter, and record producer best known for his 1995 hit single "This Is How We Do It."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Montell Du’Sean Barnett
this entity surface form:
Montell