Claudette Robinson
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Claudette Robinson is an American singer best known as a founding member of the Motown vocal group The Miracles and former wife of Smokey Robinson.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Claudette Robinson canonical | 5 |
| Claudette Annette Rogers | 1 |
| Claudette Rogers Robinson | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2760090 — 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: Claudette Robinson Context triple: [Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, notableMember, Claudette Robinson]
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A.
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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B.
Rutha Mae Harris
Rutha Mae Harris is an American civil rights activist and gospel singer best known as a founding member of the SNCC Freedom Singers, who used music to support and galvanize the 1960s Civil Rights Movement.
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C.
Florence Eldridge
Florence Eldridge was an American stage and film actress known for her distinguished Broadway career and frequent collaborations with her husband, actor Fredric March.
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D.
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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E.
Lucille Campbell Green
Lucille Campbell Green was an educator and civil rights activist best known as the wife and partner of prominent labor and civil rights leader A. Philip Randolph.
- 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: Claudette Robinson Target entity description: Claudette Robinson is an American singer best known as a founding member of the Motown vocal group The Miracles and former wife of Smokey Robinson.
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A.
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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B.
Rutha Mae Harris
Rutha Mae Harris is an American civil rights activist and gospel singer best known as a founding member of the SNCC Freedom Singers, who used music to support and galvanize the 1960s Civil Rights Movement.
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C.
Florence Eldridge
Florence Eldridge was an American stage and film actress known for her distinguished Broadway career and frequent collaborations with her husband, actor Fredric March.
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D.
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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E.
Lucille Campbell Green
Lucille Campbell Green was an educator and civil rights activist best known as the wife and partner of prominent labor and civil rights leader A. Philip Randolph.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American singer
ⓘ
human ⓘ singer ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1950s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Motown Records artists
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Smokey Robinson ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Hollywood Walk of Fame star (as member of The Miracles)
ⓘ
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ⓘ
surface form:
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction (as member of The Miracles)
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| birthName |
Claudette Robinson
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Claudette Annette Rogers
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| child |
Berry Robinson
ⓘ
Tamla Robinson ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1942-06-20 ⓘ |
| endTimeOfSpouse | 1986 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | African-American ⓘ |
| familyName | Rogers ⓘ |
| genre |
R&B
ⓘ
doo-wop ⓘ pop music ⓘ soul music ⓘ |
| givenName | Claudette ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
ⓘ
surface form:
The Miracles
|
| name | Claudette Robinson self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor | founding member of The Miracles ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
ⓘ
surface form:
The Miracles
|
| occupation | singer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | New Orleans, Louisiana, United States ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Motown
ⓘ
Motown ⓘ
surface form:
Tamla Records
|
| residence |
Los Angeles
ⓘ
surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
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| spouse | Smokey Robinson ⓘ |
| startTimeOfSpouse | 1959 ⓘ |
| voiceType | 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: Claudette Robinson Description of subject: Claudette Robinson is an American singer best known as a founding member of the Motown vocal group The Miracles and former wife of Smokey Robinson.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Claudette Rogers Robinson
this entity surface form:
Claudette Annette Rogers