Leela James
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Leela James is an American R&B and soul singer known for her powerful, emotive vocals and contemporary take on classic soul music.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Leela James canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6529653 — 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: Leela James Context triple: [I Want to Know What Love Is, hasCoverVersionBy, Leela James]
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A.
Siedah Garrett
Siedah Garrett is an American singer and songwriter best known for co-writing Michael Jackson’s hit "Man in the Mirror" and performing the duet "I Just Can't Stop Loving You" with him.
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B.
Vashtie Kola
Vashtie Kola is a New York-based director, DJ, designer, and creative known for her influential role in downtown street culture and collaborations across music, fashion, and art.
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C.
LaTavia Roberson
LaTavia Roberson is an American singer and original member of the R&B girl group Destiny's Child, known for her contributions to the group's early success before pursuing other ventures in music and entertainment.
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D.
Tracee Ellis Ross
Tracee Ellis Ross is an American actress, comedian, and producer best known for her lead role on the television series "Black-ish" and her work as a prominent advocate for diversity and women's empowerment.
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E.
Keisha Spivey
Keisha Spivey is an American R&B singer best known as a member of the 1990s girl group Total, which was signed to Sean "Diddy" Combs' Bad Boy Records.
- 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: Leela James Target entity description: Leela James is an American R&B and soul singer known for her powerful, emotive vocals and contemporary take on classic soul music.
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A.
Siedah Garrett
Siedah Garrett is an American singer and songwriter best known for co-writing Michael Jackson’s hit "Man in the Mirror" and performing the duet "I Just Can't Stop Loving You" with him.
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B.
Vashtie Kola
Vashtie Kola is a New York-based director, DJ, designer, and creative known for her influential role in downtown street culture and collaborations across music, fashion, and art.
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C.
LaTavia Roberson
LaTavia Roberson is an American singer and original member of the R&B girl group Destiny's Child, known for her contributions to the group's early success before pursuing other ventures in music and entertainment.
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D.
Tracee Ellis Ross
Tracee Ellis Ross is an American actress, comedian, and producer best known for her lead role on the television series "Black-ish" and her work as a prominent advocate for diversity and women's empowerment.
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E.
Keisha Spivey
Keisha Spivey is an American R&B singer best known as a member of the 1990s girl group Total, which was signed to Sean "Diddy" Combs' Bad Boy Records.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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recording artist ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 2000 ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Anthony Hamilton
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
K-Ci NERFINISHED ⓘ Musiq Soulchild NERFINISHED ⓘ The Truth Hurts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1983-05-22 ⓘ |
| debutAlbum | A Change Is Gonna Come NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
R&B
ⓘ
soul ⓘ |
| hairStyle | natural hair ⓘ |
| hasGender | female ⓘ |
| hasSocialMedia |
https://twitter.com/leelajames
ⓘ
https://www.facebook.com/LeelaJames ⓘ https://www.instagram.com/leelajamesofficial/ ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.leelajames.com/ ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| musicalInfluence | classic soul ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor | contemporary take on classic soul music ⓘ |
| notableSong |
Don’t Speak
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Fall for You NERFINISHED ⓘ Music ⓘ Say That NERFINISHED ⓘ Set Me Free NERFINISHED ⓘ Tell Me You Love Me NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Change Is Gonna Come
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Did It for Love NERFINISHED ⓘ Fall for You NERFINISHED ⓘ Let’s Do It Again NERFINISHED ⓘ Loving You More… In the Spirit of Etta James NERFINISHED ⓘ Music ⓘ My Soul NERFINISHED ⓘ See Me NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
R&B singer
ⓘ
soul singer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Los Angeles, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
BMG
NERFINISHED
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J Records ⓘ Shanachie Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Warner Bros. Records ⓘ |
| residence |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| vocalStyle |
emotive vocals
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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: Leela James Description of subject: Leela James is an American R&B and soul singer known for her powerful, emotive vocals and contemporary take on classic soul music.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.