Delloreese Patricia Early
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Delloreese Patricia Early, better known as Della Reese, was an American jazz and gospel singer, actress, and ordained minister renowned for her music career and her role on the television series "Touched by an Angel."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Delloreese Patricia Early canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8732449 — 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: Delloreese Patricia Early Context triple: [Della Reese, birthName, Delloreese Patricia Early]
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A.
Patricia Carr
Patricia Carr is an American actress best known as the second wife of actor Tom Bosley.
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B.
Patricia Gaul
Patricia Gaul is an American character actress known for her supporting roles in films such as "The Big Chill," "Silverado," and "Road Trip."
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C.
Patricia Southall
Patricia Southall is a former Miss Virginia USA and philanthropist who was previously married to comedian Martin Lawrence and later to NFL Hall of Famer Emmitt Smith.
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D.
Patricia Neway
Patricia Neway was an American operatic soprano and musical theatre actress best known for originating the role of the Mother Abbess in the original Broadway production of "The Sound of Music."
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E.
Patricia Still
Patricia Still was the wife and close partner of influential American abstract expressionist painter Clyfford Still, playing a key role in preserving and managing his artistic legacy.
- 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: Delloreese Patricia Early Target entity description: Delloreese Patricia Early, better known as Della Reese, was an American jazz and gospel singer, actress, and ordained minister renowned for her music career and her role on the television series "Touched by an Angel."
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A.
Patricia Carr
Patricia Carr is an American actress best known as the second wife of actor Tom Bosley.
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B.
Patricia Gaul
Patricia Gaul is an American character actress known for her supporting roles in films such as "The Big Chill," "Silverado," and "Road Trip."
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C.
Patricia Southall
Patricia Southall is a former Miss Virginia USA and philanthropist who was previously married to comedian Martin Lawrence and later to NFL Hall of Famer Emmitt Smith.
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D.
Patricia Neway
Patricia Neway was an American operatic soprano and musical theatre actress best known for originating the role of the Mother Abbess in the original Broadway production of "The Sound of Music."
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E.
Patricia Owens
Patricia Owens was a British-born American actress best known for her leading role in the 1958 science-fiction horror film "The Fly."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actress
ⓘ
film actress ⓘ human ⓘ jazz singer ⓘ ordained minister ⓘ television actress ⓘ television personality ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1950 ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Grammy Award nomination ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | complications from diabetes ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1931-07-06 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2017-11-19 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Black Americans
ⓘ
surface form:
African American
|
| familyName | Early NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
entertainment industry
ⓘ
religious ministry ⓘ |
| genre |
gospel
ⓘ
jazz ⓘ pop ⓘ |
| givenName | Delloreese NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hosted | The Della Reese Show NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| instrument | vocals ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| medium |
music
ⓘ
television ⓘ |
| notableSong | Don’t You Know? NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
The Della Reese Show
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Touched by an Angel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
ⓘ
minister ⓘ singer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Detroit, Michigan, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Encino, Los Angeles, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
ABC Records
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jubilee Records NERFINISHED ⓘ RCA Victor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| role | Tess on Touched by an Angel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse |
Franklin Lett Jr.
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Leroy Gray NERFINISHED ⓘ Vermont Taliaferro NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stageName | Della Reese NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Delloreese Patricia Early Description of subject: Delloreese Patricia Early, better known as Della Reese, was an American jazz and gospel singer, actress, and ordained minister renowned for her music career and her role on the television series "Touched by an Angel."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.