Bernice Johnson
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Bernice Johnson is an American singer, composer, scholar, and civil rights activist best known as the founder of the African American a cappella ensemble Sweet Honey in the Rock.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bernice Johnson canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11187159 — 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: Bernice Johnson Context triple: [Bernice Johnson Reagon, birthName, Bernice Johnson]
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A.
Bernice Layne Brown
Bernice Layne Brown was the mother of California governor Jerry Brown and a prominent figure in California political and civic life.
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B.
Leola Brown
Leola Brown was the wife of Oliver Brown, the named plaintiff in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court school desegregation case Brown v. Board of Education.
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C.
Marion Brown
Marion Brown was an American jazz alto saxophonist and composer associated with the avant-garde and free jazz movements of the 1960s and beyond.
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D.
Elaine Baker
Elaine Baker is known as the wife of acclaimed special makeup effects artist and filmmaker Rick Baker.
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E.
Anna Boyd
Anna Boyd is a character associated with Rachel Watson, likely appearing as one of her allies in the psychological thriller novel and film "The Girl on the Train."
- 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: Bernice Johnson Target entity description: Bernice Johnson is an American singer, composer, scholar, and civil rights activist best known as the founder of the African American a cappella ensemble Sweet Honey in the Rock.
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A.
Bernice Layne Brown
Bernice Layne Brown was the mother of California governor Jerry Brown and a prominent figure in California political and civic life.
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B.
Leola Brown
Leola Brown was the wife of Oliver Brown, the named plaintiff in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court school desegregation case Brown v. Board of Education.
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C.
Marion Brown
Marion Brown was an American jazz alto saxophonist and composer associated with the avant-garde and free jazz movements of the 1960s and beyond.
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D.
Elaine Baker
Elaine Baker is known as the wife of acclaimed special makeup effects artist and filmmaker Rick Baker.
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E.
Anna Boyd
Anna Boyd is a character associated with Rachel Watson, likely appearing as one of her allies in the psychological thriller novel and film "The Girl on the Train."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
civil rights activist
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composer ⓘ human ⓘ music historian ⓘ scholar ⓘ singer ⓘ song leader ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Heinz Award in the Arts and Humanities
NERFINISHED
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MacArthur Fellowship NERFINISHED ⓘ National Medal of Arts ⓘ |
| child | Toshi Reagon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1942-10-04 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Albany State College
NERFINISHED
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Howard University NERFINISHED ⓘ Spelman College NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
American University
NERFINISHED
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Smithsonian Institution NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Black Americans
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surface form:
African American
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| familyName | Johnson Reagon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
African American music
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civil rights history ⓘ ethnomusicology ⓘ |
| founded | Sweet Honey in the Rock NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
a cappella
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folk music ⓘ gospel music ⓘ |
| givenName | Bernice NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDegree | PhD in history ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
SNCC Freedom Singers
NERFINISHED
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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement | American civil rights movement ⓘ |
| name | Bernice Johnson Reagon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
founder of Sweet Honey in the Rock
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“If You Don’t Go, Don’t Hinder Me” NERFINISHED ⓘ “We Who Believe in Freedom: Sweet Honey in the Rock Still on the Journey” NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
civil rights activist
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composer ⓘ scholar ⓘ singer ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Albany, Georgia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dougherty County, Georgia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| spouse | Cordell Reagon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stateOfBirth | Georgia 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: Bernice Johnson Description of subject: Bernice Johnson is an American singer, composer, scholar, and civil rights activist best known as the founder of the African American a cappella ensemble Sweet Honey in the Rock.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.