Estelle
E12645
Estelle is a British singer, rapper, and songwriter best known for her hit single "American Boy" featuring Kanye West.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Estelle canonical | 126 |
| Estelle Fanta Swaray | 1 |
| Estelle discography | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T52898 — 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: Estelle Context triple: [Evolver, performerOnRecording, Estelle]
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A.
Louise
Louise is a feminine given name of French origin, traditionally associated with nobility and widely used in many European and English-speaking countries.
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B.
Claudine
Claudine is a feminine given name of French origin, historically popular in Francophone countries and used internationally.
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C.
Barbara
Barbara is a feminine given name of Greek origin that has been widely used in many cultures and languages.
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D.
Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau
Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau was a New Orleans–born Parisian socialite best known as the controversial subject of John Singer Sargent’s famous portrait "Madame X."
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E.
Angela
Angela is the given name of Angela Merkel, the long-serving former Chancellor of Germany and a prominent European political leader.
- 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: Estelle Target entity description: Estelle is a British singer, rapper, and songwriter best known for her hit single "American Boy" featuring Kanye West.
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A.
Louise
Louise is a feminine given name of French origin, traditionally associated with nobility and widely used in many European and English-speaking countries.
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B.
Claudine
Claudine is a feminine given name of French origin, historically popular in Francophone countries and used internationally.
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C.
Barbara
Barbara is a feminine given name of Greek origin that has been widely used in many cultures and languages.
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D.
Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau
Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau was a New Orleans–born Parisian socialite best known as the controversial subject of John Singer Sargent’s famous portrait "Madame X."
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E.
Angela
Angela is the given name of Angela Merkel, the long-serving former Chancellor of Germany and a prominent European political leader.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (56)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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rapper ⓘ record producer ⓘ singer ⓘ song ⓘ songwriter ⓘ studio album ⓘ studio album ⓘ studio album ⓘ studio album ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Grammy Award for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration ⓘ |
| awardWinner | Estelle self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| birthName |
Estelle
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Estelle Fanta Swaray
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1980-01-18 ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin |
Senegalese
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Sierra Leonean ⓘ |
| familyName | Swaray ⓘ |
| featuredArtist | Kanye West ⓘ |
| genre |
R&B
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R&B ⓘ hip hop ⓘ hip hop ⓘ reggae ⓘ soul ⓘ |
| givenName | Estelle self-link ⓘ |
| hasRole | voice actor ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Estelle self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableAlbum |
All of Me
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Shine ⓘ The 18th Day ⓘ True Romance ⓘ |
| notableWork |
American Boy
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voicing Garnet in Steven Universe ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
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rapper ⓘ record producer ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| performer |
Estelle
self-linksurface differs
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Estelle self-linksurface differs ⓘ Estelle self-linksurface differs ⓘ Estelle self-linksurface differs ⓘ Estelle self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Hammersmith, London, England ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Atlantic Records
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V2 Records ⓘ VP Records ⓘ |
| releaseDate |
2004-10-18
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2008-03-31 ⓘ 2008-04-29 ⓘ 2012-02-28 ⓘ 2015-02-17 ⓘ |
| residence |
London, England
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surface form:
London
|
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: Estelle Description of subject: Estelle is a British singer, rapper, and songwriter best known for her hit single "American Boy" featuring Kanye West.
Referenced by (128)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Thank You (Estelle song)
subject surface form:
Come Over music video