Irene Cara

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Irene Cara was an American singer, songwriter, and actress best known for her performances and hit songs in the films "Fame" and "Flashdance."

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Irene Cara canonical 3
Irene Cara Escalera 1

Statements (51)

Predicate Object
instanceOf actress
human
singer
songwriter
awardReceived Academy Award for Best Original Song
American Music Award
Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song
Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance
awardReceivedFor Flashdance... What a Feeling
burialPlace Florida, United States
causeOfDeath arteriosclerotic and hypertensive cardiovascular disease
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1959-03-18
dateOfDeath 2022-11-25
ethnicOrigin Cuban
Puerto Ricans
surface form: Puerto Rican
familyName Cara
fullName Irene Cara self-linksurface differs
surface form: Irene Cara Escalera
genre R&B
dance-pop
pop music
givenName Irene
languageOfWorkOrName English
Spanish
notableWork Fame (TV series)
surface form: Fame (1980 film)

Flashdance... What a Feeling
occupation actress
recording artist
singer
songwriter
performedSong Breakdance
Fame
Flashdance... What a Feeling
Out Here on My Own
The Dream (Hold On to Your Dream)
Why Me?
placeOfBirth The Bronx, New York City, New York, United States
placeOfDeath Largo, Florida
surface form: Largo, Florida, United States
playedCharacter Coco Hernandez
recordLabel Elektra Records
Network Records
RSO Records
starredIn Aaron Loves Angela
Certain Fury
City Heat (1984 film)
surface form: City Heat

Fame
surface form: Fame (1980 film)

Sparkle (1976 film)
The Electric Company
wroteSong Flashdance... What a Feeling
The Dream (Hold On to Your Dream)
yearsActive 1965–2022

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: Irene Cara
Description of subject: Irene Cara was an American singer, songwriter, and actress best known for her performances and hit songs in the films "Fame" and "Flashdance."

Referenced by (4)

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

Irene hasNotableBearer Irene Cara
Irene Cara fullName Irene Cara self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Irene Cara Escalera
Flashdance themeSongPerformedBy Irene Cara
Flashdance songLyricist Irene Cara