Merry Clayton
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Merry Clayton is an American soul and gospel singer best known for her powerful, haunting backing vocals on the Rolling Stones' song "Gimme Shelter."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Merry Clayton canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5628367 — 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: Merry Clayton Context triple: [Gimme Shelter, vocalContribution, Merry Clayton]
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A.
Shirley Boone
Shirley Boone was an American philanthropist, author, and gospel singer best known as the longtime wife and collaborator of entertainer Pat Boone.
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B.
Melissa Manchester
Melissa Manchester is an American singer-songwriter and actress known for her emotive pop and adult contemporary hits, including classics like "Midnight Blue" and "Don't Cry Out Loud."
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C.
Joan Osborne
Joan Osborne is an American singer-songwriter best known for her soulful vocals and the 1995 hit single "One of Us."
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D.
Toni Cornell
Toni Cornell is the daughter of late Soundgarden and Audioslave frontman Chris Cornell, known for her own emerging work as a singer and songwriter.
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E.
Susan Crow
Susan Crow is an American former teacher and philanthropist best known as the third wife and longtime partner of legendary singer Tony Bennett.
- 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: Merry Clayton Target entity description: Merry Clayton is an American soul and gospel singer best known for her powerful, haunting backing vocals on the Rolling Stones' song "Gimme Shelter."
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A.
Shirley Boone
Shirley Boone was an American philanthropist, author, and gospel singer best known as the longtime wife and collaborator of entertainer Pat Boone.
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B.
Melissa Manchester
Melissa Manchester is an American singer-songwriter and actress known for her emotive pop and adult contemporary hits, including classics like "Midnight Blue" and "Don't Cry Out Loud."
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C.
Joan Osborne
Joan Osborne is an American singer-songwriter best known for her soulful vocals and the 1995 hit single "One of Us."
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D.
Toni Cornell
Toni Cornell is the daughter of late Soundgarden and Audioslave frontman Chris Cornell, known for her own emerging work as a singer and songwriter.
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E.
Susan Crow
Susan Crow is an American former teacher and philanthropist best known as the third wife and longtime partner of legendary singer Tony Bennett.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
backing vocalist
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human ⓘ soul singer ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1960s ⓘ |
| appearedInFilm | "20 Feet from Stardom" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Bobby Darin
NERFINISHED
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Carole King NERFINISHED ⓘ Ray Charles NERFINISHED ⓘ The Rolling Stones NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Grammy Award for Best Music Film NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceivedFor | "20 Feet from Stardom" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Merry Clayton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | The Rolling Stones NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1948-12-25 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | African-American NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| genre |
R&B
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gospel music ⓘ soul music ⓘ |
| grewUpIn | New Orleans, Louisiana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfPerformance | English ⓘ |
| name | Merry Clayton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nominatedFor | Grammy Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
contributions as a session and backing vocalist
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powerful, emotional vocal delivery ⓘ |
| notableWork | backing vocals on "Gimme Shelter" ⓘ |
| occupation |
recording artist
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singer ⓘ |
| performedOn | "Gimme Shelter" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | New Orleans, Louisiana, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| providedBackingVocalsFor | The Rolling Stones NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| providedBackingVocalsOnSong | "Gimme Shelter" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Capitol Records
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Ode Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releasedAlbum |
"Beautiful Scars"
NERFINISHED
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"Emotion" NERFINISHED ⓘ "Gimme Shelter" (1970 album) NERFINISHED ⓘ "Keep Your Eye on the Sparrow" NERFINISHED ⓘ "Merry Clayton" (1971 album) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religiousBackground | Christian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sangBackingVocalsFor |
Bobby Darin
NERFINISHED
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Carole King NERFINISHED ⓘ Ray Charles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sangInChoirType | church choir ⓘ |
| vocalStyle | haunting backing vocals ⓘ |
| vocalType | powerful vocals ⓘ |
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: Merry Clayton Description of subject: Merry Clayton is an American soul and gospel singer best known for her powerful, haunting backing vocals on the Rolling Stones' song "Gimme Shelter."
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Tapestry