Loleatta Holloway
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Loleatta Holloway was an American soul and disco singer renowned for her powerful, gospel-infused vocals and influential dance-floor anthems like "Love Sensation."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Loleatta Holloway canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6955042 — 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: Loleatta Holloway Context triple: [Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch, associatedAct, Loleatta Holloway]
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A.
Nell Carter
Nell Carter was an American singer and Tony- and Emmy-winning actress best known for her starring role on the 1980s television sitcom "Gimme a Break!".
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B.
Cheryl Lynn
Cheryl Lynn is an American R&B and disco singer best known for her 1978 hit single "Got to Be Real."
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C.
Thelma Evans
Thelma Evans is a central character on the 1970s sitcom "Good Times," known as the smart, independent, and strong-willed daughter of the Evans family.
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D.
Patti LaBelle
Patti LaBelle is an acclaimed American singer and entertainer known as the "Godmother of Soul" for her powerful vocals and influential contributions to R&B and soul music.
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E.
Delia Juanita Warrick
Delia Juanita Warrick, better known as Dee Dee Warwick, was an American soul and R&B singer noted for her powerful vocals and recordings in the 1960s and 1970s.
- 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: Loleatta Holloway Target entity description: Loleatta Holloway was an American soul and disco singer renowned for her powerful, gospel-infused vocals and influential dance-floor anthems like "Love Sensation."
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A.
Nell Carter
Nell Carter was an American singer and Tony- and Emmy-winning actress best known for her starring role on the 1980s television sitcom "Gimme a Break!".
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B.
Cheryl Lynn
Cheryl Lynn is an American R&B and disco singer best known for her 1978 hit single "Got to Be Real."
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C.
Thelma Evans
Thelma Evans is a central character on the 1970s sitcom "Good Times," known as the smart, independent, and strong-willed daughter of the Evans family.
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D.
Patti LaBelle
Patti LaBelle is an acclaimed American singer and entertainer known as the "Godmother of Soul" for her powerful vocals and influential contributions to R&B and soul music.
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E.
Delia Juanita Warrick
Delia Juanita Warrick, better known as Dee Dee Warwick, was an American soul and R&B singer noted for her powerful vocals and recordings in the 1960s and 1970s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
disco singer
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human ⓘ soul singer ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 2011 ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1960s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Dan Hartman
NERFINISHED
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Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch NERFINISHED ⓘ Salsoul Orchestra NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Loleatta Holloway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | heart failure ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1946-11-05 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2011-03-21 ⓘ |
| genre |
R&B
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disco ⓘ gospel ⓘ soul ⓘ |
| hometown | Chicago, Illinois, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| honorificNickname | Queen of the Night NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedGenre |
dance music
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house music ⓘ |
| knownFor |
club and dance-floor anthems
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powerful vocal delivery ⓘ |
| languageOfPerformance | English ⓘ |
| name | Loleatta Holloway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAlbum |
Loleatta (1973 album)
NERFINISHED
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Loleatta (1977 album) NERFINISHED ⓘ Queen of the Night NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Dreamin'
NERFINISHED
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Hit and Run NERFINISHED ⓘ Love Sensation NERFINISHED ⓘ Relight My Fire NERFINISHED ⓘ Runaway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | singer ⓘ |
| performedIn |
Europe
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Chicago, Illinois, United States ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Chicago, Illinois, United States ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Aware Records
NERFINISHED
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Gold Mind Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Salsoul Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religiousBackground | gospel music roots ⓘ |
| sampledBy | Black Box NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sampledIn | Ride on Time NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| vocalContribution | uncredited vocals on Ride on Time by Black Box ⓘ |
| vocalStyle | gospel-infused vocals ⓘ |
| voiceType | contralto ⓘ |
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: Loleatta Holloway Description of subject: Loleatta Holloway was an American soul and disco singer renowned for her powerful, gospel-infused vocals and influential dance-floor anthems like "Love Sensation."
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
"We're Getting Stronger"
subject surface form:
"We're Getting Stronger"
subject surface form:
"We're Getting Stronger"