Camille Yarbrough
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Camille Yarbrough is an American poet, singer, actress, and author whose spoken-word and musical work, particularly the piece sampled in Fatboy Slim’s “Praise You,” has been influential in soul, funk, and hip-hop.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Camille Yarbrough canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3960602 — 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: Camille Yarbrough Context triple: [Praise You, writer, Camille Yarbrough]
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A.
Camille Cosby
Camille Cosby is an American television producer, philanthropist, and business manager best known for her long marriage to comedian Bill Cosby and her behind-the-scenes influence on his career.
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B.
Jaleesa Vinson
Jaleesa Vinson is a mature, independent college student and later career woman on the sitcom "A Different World," known for her no-nonsense attitude and role as a supportive friend and mentor.
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C.
Wanya Morris
Wanya Morris is an American R&B singer best known as a member of the vocal group Boyz II Men.
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D.
Margzetta Frazier
Margzetta Frazier is an American artistic gymnast and former UCLA Bruins standout known for her elite-level competition and viral floor routines set to pop music.
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E.
Mechelle Vinson
Mechelle Vinson is the woman whose sexual harassment lawsuit led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson, which established that a hostile work environment can violate Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.
- 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: Camille Yarbrough Target entity description: Camille Yarbrough is an American poet, singer, actress, and author whose spoken-word and musical work, particularly the piece sampled in Fatboy Slim’s “Praise You,” has been influential in soul, funk, and hip-hop.
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A.
Camille Cosby
Camille Cosby is an American television producer, philanthropist, and business manager best known for her long marriage to comedian Bill Cosby and her behind-the-scenes influence on his career.
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B.
Jaleesa Vinson
Jaleesa Vinson is a mature, independent college student and later career woman on the sitcom "A Different World," known for her no-nonsense attitude and role as a supportive friend and mentor.
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C.
Wanya Morris
Wanya Morris is an American R&B singer best known as a member of the vocal group Boyz II Men.
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D.
Margzetta Frazier
Margzetta Frazier is an American artistic gymnast and former UCLA Bruins standout known for her elite-level competition and viral floor routines set to pop music.
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E.
Mechelle Vinson
Mechelle Vinson is the woman whose sexual harassment lawsuit led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson, which established that a hostile work environment can violate Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actress
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author ⓘ human ⓘ poet ⓘ singer ⓘ spoken word artist ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
children’s literature
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music ⓘ performance poetry ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| genre |
R&B
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funk ⓘ jazz ⓘ soul ⓘ spoken word ⓘ |
| hasRole |
narrator
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vocalist ⓘ |
| influencedGenre |
funk
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hip hop ⓘ soul ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement |
Black Arts Movement
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civil rights–era cultural activism ⓘ |
| notableFor |
influence on later hip-hop sampling culture
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socially conscious lyrics ⓘ spoken-word performance ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Cornrows
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Take Yo’ Praise ⓘ The Iron Pot Cooker ⓘ The Shimmershine Queens ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
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author ⓘ poet ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ spoken word artist ⓘ |
| partOf |
African American literature
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surface form:
African-American literature
African-American music ⓘ |
| sampledBy | Fatboy Slim ⓘ |
| workSampledIn | Praise You ⓘ |
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: Camille Yarbrough Description of subject: Camille Yarbrough is an American poet, singer, actress, and author whose spoken-word and musical work, particularly the piece sampled in Fatboy Slim’s “Praise You,” has been influential in soul, funk, and hip-hop.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Take Yo’ Praise