DeBarge

E295714
American R&B group family music group soul music group

DeBarge was an American family R&B and soul music group best known for their smooth harmonies and 1980s hits like "Rhythm of the Night" and "All This Love."

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All labels observed (6)

Label Occurrences
DeBarge canonical 32
DeBarge family 6
El DeBarge 3

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf American R&B group ⓘ
family music group ⓘ
soul music group ⓘ
activePeriodEnd late 1980s ⓘ
activePeriodStart 1979 ⓘ
early 1980s ⓘ
album All This Love ⓘ
Bad Boys ⓘ
In a Special Way ⓘ
Rhythm of the Night ⓘ
DeBarge self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: The DeBarges
associatedAct Chico DeBarge ⓘ
El DeBarge ⓘ
surface form: El DeBarge (solo)

Switch ⓘ
countryOfOrigin United States of America ⓘ
surface form: United States
debutAlbum DeBarge self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: The DeBarges
familyBackground musical family ⓘ
genre R&B ⓘ
pop ⓘ
soul ⓘ
hasSiblingMembers true ⓘ
knownFor 1980s R&B hits ⓘ
crossover pop success ⓘ
languageOfWork English ⓘ
member Bunny DeBarge ⓘ
El DeBarge ⓘ
James DeBarge ⓘ
Mark DeBarge ⓘ
Randy DeBarge ⓘ
memberOfFamily DeBarge self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: DeBarge family
musicEra contemporary R&B era ⓘ
post-disco era ⓘ
notableSongCharacteristic romantic ballads ⓘ
notableWork All This Love ⓘ
I Like It ⓘ
In a Special Way ⓘ
surface form: Love Me in a Special Way

Rhythm of the Night ⓘ
Time Will Reveal ⓘ
Who’s Holding Donna Now ⓘ
You Wear It Well ⓘ
originRegion Midwestern United States ⓘ
peakPopularity 1980s ⓘ
placeOfOrigin Detroit ⓘ
surface form: Detroit, Michigan
recordLabel Gordy Records ⓘ
Motown ⓘ
surface form: Motown Records

Stranded Records ⓘ
vocalLead El DeBarge ⓘ
vocalStyle smooth harmonies ⓘ

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: DeBarge
Description of subject: DeBarge was an American family R&B and soul music group best known for their smooth harmonies and 1980s hits like "Rhythm of the Night" and "All This Love."

Referenced by (45)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Gordy Records → associatedWith → DeBarge ⓘ
James DeBarge → familyName → DeBarge ⓘ
James DeBarge → memberOf → DeBarge ⓘ
James DeBarge → sibling → DeBarge ⓘ
this entity surface form: El DeBarge
James DeBarge → performerIn → DeBarge ⓘ
this entity surface form: DeBarge (family music group)
James DeBarge → partOf → DeBarge ⓘ
this entity surface form: DeBarge family
James DeBarge → associatedAct → DeBarge ⓘ
James DeBarge → associatedAct → DeBarge ⓘ
this entity surface form: El DeBarge
Highlights → featuresArtist → DeBarge ⓘ
this entity surface form: El DeBarge
Stay with Me by DeBarge → artist → DeBarge ⓘ
subject surface form: Stay with Me
Stay with Me by DeBarge → performer → DeBarge ⓘ
subject surface form: Stay with Me
Stay with Me by DeBarge → partOf → DeBarge ⓘ
subject surface form: Stay with Me
this entity surface form: DeBarge discography
I'll Be Lovin' U Long Time → sampledArtist → DeBarge ⓘ
subject surface form: "I'll Be Lovin' U Long Time"
DeBarge → memberOfFamily → DeBarge self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: DeBarge family
DeBarge → debutAlbum → DeBarge self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: The DeBarges
DeBarge → album → DeBarge self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: The DeBarges
Gordy → recordLabelOf → DeBarge ⓘ
Gordy → notableArtist → DeBarge ⓘ
Rhythm of the Night (as member of DeBarge) → artist → DeBarge ⓘ
subject surface form: Rhythm of the Night
Rhythm of the Night (as member of DeBarge) → performer → DeBarge ⓘ
subject surface form: Rhythm of the Night
Rhythm of the Night (as member of DeBarge) → signatureSongOf → DeBarge ⓘ
subject surface form: Rhythm of the Night
Rhythm of the Night (as member of DeBarge) → mostCommerciallySuccessfulSongOf → DeBarge ⓘ
subject surface form: Rhythm of the Night
Rhythm of the Night (as member of DeBarge) → partOfDeBargeDiscography → DeBarge ⓘ
subject surface form: Rhythm of the Night
All This Love (as member of DeBarge) → artist → DeBarge ⓘ
subject surface form: All This Love
All This Love (as member of DeBarge) → performer → DeBarge ⓘ
subject surface form: All This Love
All This Love (as member of DeBarge) → performerName → DeBarge ⓘ
subject surface form: All This Love
All This Love (as member of DeBarge) → hasPerformerFamilyName → DeBarge ⓘ
subject surface form: All This Love
Time Will Reveal (as member of DeBarge) → performer → DeBarge ⓘ
subject surface form: Time Will Reveal
Time Will Reveal (as member of DeBarge) → isSignatureSongOf → DeBarge ⓘ
subject surface form: Time Will Reveal
Bunny DeBarge → familyName → DeBarge ⓘ
Bunny DeBarge → memberOf → DeBarge ⓘ
Bunny DeBarge → notableFamily → DeBarge ⓘ
this entity surface form: DeBarge family
Randy DeBarge → familyName → DeBarge ⓘ
Randy DeBarge → memberOf → DeBarge ⓘ
Randy DeBarge → performerIn → DeBarge ⓘ
Randy DeBarge → partOf → DeBarge ⓘ
this entity surface form: DeBarge family
Tommy DeBarge → familyName → DeBarge ⓘ
Tommy DeBarge → notableFamily → DeBarge ⓘ
this entity surface form: DeBarge family
Tommy DeBarge → associatedAct → DeBarge ⓘ
Chico DeBarge → familyName → DeBarge ⓘ
Chico DeBarge → memberOf → DeBarge ⓘ
this entity surface form: DeBarge family
Chico DeBarge → associatedAct → DeBarge ⓘ
El DeBarge → familyName → DeBarge ⓘ
El DeBarge → memberOf → DeBarge ⓘ
El DeBarge → associatedAct → DeBarge ⓘ