Soulja Boy
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Soulja Boy is an American rapper, producer, and internet personality best known for his viral 2007 hit "Crank That (Soulja Boy)" and for pioneering online music promotion through platforms like YouTube and social media.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Soulja Boy canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5193476 — 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: Soulja Boy Context triple: [Lil Jon, associatedAct, Soulja Boy]
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A.
Tyga
Tyga is an American rapper and songwriter known for hits like "Rack City" and his association with the Young Money Entertainment label.
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B.
Juicy J
Juicy J is an American rapper, producer, and founding member of the hip hop group Three 6 Mafia, known for his influential role in Southern rap and numerous high-profile collaborations.
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C.
Petey Pablo
Petey Pablo is an American rapper from North Carolina best known for early-2000s hits like "Raise Up" and "Freek-a-Leek."
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D.
Shmurda (Bobby Shmurda)
Bobby Shmurda is an American rapper from Brooklyn best known for his 2014 hit single "Hot N***a" and the viral "Shmoney Dance," as well as his highly publicized legal troubles and incarceration.
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E.
Bubba Sparxxx
Bubba Sparxxx is an American rapper known for blending Southern hip hop with country influences, gaining prominence in the early 2000s with hits like "Ugly" and "Ms. New Booty."
- 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: Soulja Boy Target entity description: Soulja Boy is an American rapper, producer, and internet personality best known for his viral 2007 hit "Crank That (Soulja Boy)" and for pioneering online music promotion through platforms like YouTube and social media.
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A.
Tyga
Tyga is an American rapper and songwriter known for hits like "Rack City" and his association with the Young Money Entertainment label.
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B.
Juicy J
Juicy J is an American rapper, producer, and founding member of the hip hop group Three 6 Mafia, known for his influential role in Southern rap and numerous high-profile collaborations.
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C.
Petey Pablo
Petey Pablo is an American rapper from North Carolina best known for early-2000s hits like "Raise Up" and "Freek-a-Leek."
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D.
Shmurda (Bobby Shmurda)
Bobby Shmurda is an American rapper from Brooklyn best known for his 2014 hit single "Hot N***a" and the viral "Shmoney Dance," as well as his highly publicized legal troubles and incarceration.
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E.
Bubba Sparxxx
Bubba Sparxxx is an American rapper known for blending Southern hip hop with country influences, gaining prominence in the early 2000s with hits like "Ugly" and "Ms. New Booty."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
entrepreneur
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human ⓘ internet personality ⓘ rapper ⓘ record producer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Soulja Boy Tell 'Em NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Arab
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Bow Wow NERFINISHED ⓘ Chief Keef NERFINISHED ⓘ Gucci Mane NERFINISHED ⓘ Lil B NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | DeAndre Cortez Way NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| breakthroughSingle | Crank That (Soulja Boy) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chartAchievement | Crank That (Soulja Boy) reached number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1990-07-28 ⓘ |
| debutAlbumReleaseYear | 2007 ⓘ |
| debutStudioAlbum | Souljaboytellem.com NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| founded | Stacks on Deck Money Gang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
Southern hip hop
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hip hop ⓘ snap music ⓘ |
| knownFor |
pioneering online music promotion
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viral dance craze for Crank That (Soulja Boy) ⓘ |
| label |
ColliPark Music
NERFINISHED
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Interscope Records NERFINISHED ⓘ SODMG NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Crank That (Soulja Boy)
NERFINISHED
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Souljaboytellem.com NERFINISHED ⓘ The DeAndre Way NERFINISHED ⓘ iSouljaBoyTellem NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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entrepreneur ⓘ rapper ⓘ record producer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Chicago, Illinois, United States ⓘ |
| platformUsed |
Instagram
NERFINISHED
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LimeWire NERFINISHED ⓘ Myspace NERFINISHED ⓘ SoundClick NERFINISHED ⓘ Twitter NERFINISHED ⓘ YouTube NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| raisedIn | Atlanta, Georgia, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| secondAlbumReleaseYear | 2008 ⓘ |
| secondStudioAlbum | iSouljaBoyTellem NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| singleReleaseYear | Crank That (Soulja Boy),2007 ⓘ |
| stageName | Soulja Boy Tell 'Em NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| thirdAlbumReleaseYear | 2010 ⓘ |
| thirdStudioAlbum | The DeAndre Way NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 2004–present ⓘ |
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: Soulja Boy Description of subject: Soulja Boy is an American rapper, producer, and internet personality best known for his viral 2007 hit "Crank That (Soulja Boy)" and for pioneering online music promotion through platforms like YouTube and social media.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
All the Way Turnt Up
subject surface form:
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