Ja'net DuBois
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American
actress
film actress
human
singer
songwriter
stage actress
television actress
voice actress
Ja'net DuBois was an American actress and singer best known for her role as Willona Woods on the sitcom "Good Times" and for co-writing and singing the iconic TV theme song "Movin' On Up."
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ja'net Dubois | 4 |
| Ja'net DuBois canonical | 2 |
| Ja’net Dubois | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1408712 — 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: Ja'net DuBois Context triple: [The Jeffersons, openingThemePerformer, Ja'net DuBois]
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A.
Ruby Aldridge
Ruby Aldridge is an American fashion model known for her runway and editorial work with major designers and magazines.
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B.
Claudia Wright
Claudia Wright is known for being the former spouse of Tré Cool, the drummer of the American punk rock band Green Day.
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C.
Mary Lee Woods
Mary Lee Woods was a British mathematician and computer scientist who worked on early computers at Ferranti and was the mother of World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee.
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D.
Leontine Drinkard
Leontine Drinkard was a member of the prominent Warwick–Houston musical family, known as the matriarchal lineage behind singers like Cissy Houston and Whitney Houston.
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E.
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.
- 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: Ja'net DuBois Target entity description: Ja'net DuBois was an American actress and singer best known for her role as Willona Woods on the sitcom "Good Times" and for co-writing and singing the iconic TV theme song "Movin' On Up."
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A.
Ruby Aldridge
Ruby Aldridge is an American fashion model known for her runway and editorial work with major designers and magazines.
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B.
Claudia Wright
Claudia Wright is known for being the former spouse of Tré Cool, the drummer of the American punk rock band Green Day.
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C.
Mary Lee Woods
Mary Lee Woods was a British mathematician and computer scientist who worked on early computers at Ferranti and was the mother of World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee.
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D.
Leontine Drinkard
Leontine Drinkard was a member of the prominent Warwick–Houston musical family, known as the matriarchal lineage behind singers like Cissy Houston and Whitney Houston.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American
ⓘ
actress ⓘ film actress ⓘ human ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ stage actress ⓘ television actress ⓘ voice actress ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Ja'Net DuBois
ⓘ
surface form:
Ja’Net DuBois
Jeannette Dubois ⓘ
surface form:
Jeannette Theresa Dubois
|
| appearedInTVSeries |
Good Times
ⓘ
The Jeffersons ⓘ The PJs ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance
ⓘ
surface form:
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance
|
| causeOfDeath | cardiac arrest ⓘ |
| characterIn | Good Times ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| coWriterOf | Movin' On Up ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1932-08-05 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2020-02-17 ⓘ |
| ethnicity |
Black Americans
ⓘ
surface form:
African-American
|
| genre |
R&B
ⓘ
soul music ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| name | Ja'net DuBois self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Movin' On Up
ⓘ
surface form:
co-writing and singing the theme song Movin' On Up for The Jeffersons
portraying Willona Woods on Good Times ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Good Times
ⓘ
Movin' On Up ⓘ The Jeffersons ⓘ The PJs ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 4 ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
ⓘ
singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ voice actress ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Glendale
ⓘ
surface form:
Glendale, California, United States
|
| residence |
Glendale
ⓘ
surface form:
Glendale, California, United States
|
| role | Willona Woods ⓘ |
| singerOf | Movin' On Up ⓘ |
| themeSongFor |
Movin' On Up
ⓘ
surface form:
Movin' On Up – The Jeffersons
|
| voicedCharacter | Mrs. Florence Avery in The PJs ⓘ |
| workedWith | Norman Lear ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1960s–2010s ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Ja'net DuBois Description of subject: Ja'net DuBois was an American actress and singer best known for her role as Willona Woods on the sitcom "Good Times" and for co-writing and singing the iconic TV theme song "Movin' On Up."
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Ja'net Dubois
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Ja’net Dubois