Eva Cassidy
E118629
Eva Cassidy was an American singer known for her emotive, genre-spanning interpretations of jazz, folk, and pop standards that gained widespread acclaim posthumously.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Eva Cassidy canonical | 4 |
| Eva Cassidy Band | 1 |
| Eva Marie Cassidy | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T975436 — 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: Eva Cassidy Context triple: [What a Wonderful World, hasCoverVersionBy, Eva Cassidy]
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A.
Odetta
Odetta was a pioneering American folk and blues singer whose powerful voice and politically charged repertoire made her a key musical figure in the civil rights movement and the mid-20th-century folk revival.
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B.
Etta James
Etta James was an iconic American singer renowned for her powerful, emotive voice and genre-spanning work in blues, R&B, soul, and gospel, with classics like "At Last" cementing her legacy.
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C.
Judy Collins
Judy Collins is an American singer and songwriter renowned for her influential role in the 1960s folk music scene, distinguished by her clear soprano voice and eclectic repertoire spanning traditional folk, pop, and show tunes.
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D.
Mahalia Jackson
Mahalia Jackson was a legendary American gospel singer whose powerful voice and spiritual performances made her an influential figure in the civil rights movement.
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E.
Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday was a pioneering American jazz and blues singer renowned for her emotive voice, distinctive phrasing, and profound influence on generations of vocalists.
- 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: Eva Cassidy Target entity description: Eva Cassidy was an American singer known for her emotive, genre-spanning interpretations of jazz, folk, and pop standards that gained widespread acclaim posthumously.
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A.
Odetta
Odetta was a pioneering American folk and blues singer whose powerful voice and politically charged repertoire made her a key musical figure in the civil rights movement and the mid-20th-century folk revival.
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B.
Etta James
Etta James was an iconic American singer renowned for her powerful, emotive voice and genre-spanning work in blues, R&B, soul, and gospel, with classics like "At Last" cementing her legacy.
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C.
Judy Collins
Judy Collins is an American singer and songwriter renowned for her influential role in the 1960s folk music scene, distinguished by her clear soprano voice and eclectic repertoire spanning traditional folk, pop, and show tunes.
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D.
Mahalia Jackson
Mahalia Jackson was a legendary American gospel singer whose powerful voice and spiritual performances made her an influential figure in the civil rights movement.
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E.
Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday was a pioneering American jazz and blues singer renowned for her emotive voice, distinctive phrasing, and profound influence on generations of vocalists.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
guitarist
ⓘ
human ⓘ recording artist ⓘ singer ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1996 ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1980s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Chris Biondo
ⓘ
Chuck Brown ⓘ |
| associatedBand |
Eva Cassidy
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Eva Cassidy Band
|
| burialPlace | cremated; ashes scattered at Lake Needwood, Maryland ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | melanoma ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1963-02-02 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1996-11-02 ⓘ |
| familyName | Cassidy ⓘ |
| father | Hugh Cassidy ⓘ |
| fullName |
Eva Cassidy
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Eva Marie Cassidy
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| genre |
blues
ⓘ
folk music ⓘ jazz ⓘ pop music ⓘ soul music ⓘ |
| givenName | Eva ⓘ |
| instrument |
guitar
ⓘ
voice ⓘ |
| languagesSpoken | English ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | death from cancer ⓘ |
| mother | Barbara Cassidy ⓘ |
| musicalStyle | interpretive vocalist known for emotive delivery ⓘ |
| notableEvent | posthumous success of Songbird compilation in the United Kingdom ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Autumn Leaves (English lyrics)
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surface form:
Autumn Leaves (cover)
Eva by Heart ⓘ Fields of Gold ⓘ
surface form:
Fields of Gold (cover)
Live at Blues Alley ⓘ Over the Rainbow ⓘ
surface form:
Over the Rainbow (cover)
Songbird ⓘ |
| occupation |
guitarist
ⓘ
painter ⓘ singer ⓘ |
| performedAt | Blues Alley, Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Bowie, Maryland ⓘ |
| posthumousRecognition | achieved widespread fame in the late 1990s and 2000s ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Blix Street Records ⓘ |
| residence | Maryland ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| vocalType | mezzo-soprano ⓘ |
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: Eva Cassidy Description of subject: Eva Cassidy was an American singer known for her emotive, genre-spanning interpretations of jazz, folk, and pop standards that gained widespread acclaim posthumously.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Eva Marie Cassidy
this entity surface form:
Eva Cassidy Band
subject surface form:
Ain't No Sunshine