Tommy DeBarge

E358750

Tommy DeBarge was an American musician best known as a bassist and member of the Motown family band Switch.

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Label Occurrences
Tommy DeBarge canonical 4

Statements (41)

Predicate Object
instanceOf bassist
human
musician
songwriter
activeYearsEnd 2021
activeYearsStart 1970s
associatedAct DeBarge
Switch
causeOfDeath kidney failure
liver disease
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1957-09-06
dateOfDeath 2021-10-21
ethnicity African-American
familyName DeBarge
genre R&B
funk
soul music
givenName Thomas
instrument bass guitar
language English
memberOf Switch
name Tommy DeBarge self-link
notableAlbum Switch
Switch
surface form: Switch II

This Is My Dream
notableFamily DeBarge
surface form: DeBarge family
notableFor being bassist of Motown band Switch
notableWork I Call Your Name
There'll Never Be
occupation bassist
musician
songwriter
placeOfBirth Detroit, Michigan, United States of America
surface form: Detroit, Michigan, United States
placeOfDeath United States of America
surface form: United States
recordLabel Motown
sibling Bobby DeBarge
Bunny DeBarge
El DeBarge
Mark DeBarge
Randy DeBarge

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: Tommy DeBarge
Description of subject: Tommy DeBarge was an American musician best known as a bassist and member of the Motown family band Switch.

Referenced by (4)

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

James DeBarge sibling Tommy DeBarge
Bunny DeBarge sibling Tommy DeBarge
Tommy DeBarge name Tommy DeBarge self-link
El DeBarge sibling Tommy DeBarge