Holly Cole
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Holly Cole is a Canadian jazz singer known for her distinctive, smoky voice and inventive interpretations of standards and pop songs.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Holly Cole canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9379111 — 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: Holly Cole Context triple: [Larry Klein, notableWorkWith, Holly Cole]
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A.
Natalie Cole
Natalie Cole was a Grammy-winning American singer, songwriter, and daughter of Nat King Cole, renowned for her R&B, pop, and jazz performances, including the posthumous duet "Unforgettable" with her father.
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B.
Anita Baker
Anita Baker is an American singer-songwriter renowned for her smooth, soulful R&B ballads and multiple Grammy Award-winning career, especially prominent in the 1980s and early 1990s.
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C.
Marcia Hines
Marcia Hines is an American-Australian singer and television personality renowned as one of Australia's most successful and enduring pop and disco vocalists.
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D.
Jennifer Warnes
Jennifer Warnes is an American singer-songwriter and interpreter of Leonard Cohen’s work, known for her rich vocals and hit duets such as “(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life.”
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E.
Macy Gray
Macy Gray is an American R&B and soul singer-songwriter known for her distinctive raspy voice and her hit single "I Try."
- 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: Holly Cole Target entity description: Holly Cole is a Canadian jazz singer known for her distinctive, smoky voice and inventive interpretations of standards and pop songs.
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A.
Natalie Cole
Natalie Cole was a Grammy-winning American singer, songwriter, and daughter of Nat King Cole, renowned for her R&B, pop, and jazz performances, including the posthumous duet "Unforgettable" with her father.
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B.
Anita Baker
Anita Baker is an American singer-songwriter renowned for her smooth, soulful R&B ballads and multiple Grammy Award-winning career, especially prominent in the 1980s and early 1990s.
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C.
Marcia Hines
Marcia Hines is an American-Australian singer and television personality renowned as one of Australia's most successful and enduring pop and disco vocalists.
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D.
Jennifer Warnes
Jennifer Warnes is an American singer-songwriter and interpreter of Leonard Cohen’s work, known for her rich vocals and hit duets such as “(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life.”
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E.
Macy Gray
Macy Gray is an American R&B and soul singer-songwriter known for her distinctive raspy voice and her hit single "I Try."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
jazz singer ⓘ |
| activeIn | music industry ⓘ |
| associatedAct | Holly Cole Trio NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Holly Cole NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfActivity | Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Canada ⓘ |
| genre |
jazz
ⓘ
vocal jazz ⓘ |
| hasDiscographyEntry |
Baby, It’s Cold Outside
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Blame It on My Youth NERFINISHED ⓘ Christmas Blues NERFINISHED ⓘ Dark Dear Heart NERFINISHED ⓘ Don’t Smoke in Bed NERFINISHED ⓘ Girl Talk NERFINISHED ⓘ Holly Cole (album) NERFINISHED ⓘ It Happened One Night NERFINISHED ⓘ Night NERFINISHED ⓘ Romantically Helpless NERFINISHED ⓘ Shade NERFINISHED ⓘ Temptation NERFINISHED ⓘ The Best of Holly Cole NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPerformed |
Tom Waits songs
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jazz standards ⓘ pop song covers ⓘ |
| influencedBy | jazz standards tradition ⓘ |
| instrument | vocals ⓘ |
| languageOfPerformance | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Holly Cole Trio NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Holly Cole NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | Canadian ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic |
distinctive phrasing
ⓘ
dramatic song interpretation ⓘ |
| notableFor |
interpretations of pop songs
ⓘ
inventive interpretations of jazz standards ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Don’t Smoke in Bed
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Temptation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
jazz singer
ⓘ
singer ⓘ |
| placeOfOrigin | Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Alert Records
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Blue Note Records ⓘ Capitol Records ⓘ |
| style | interpretive jazz singing ⓘ |
| vocalType | contralto ⓘ |
| voiceDescription | smoky voice ⓘ |
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: Holly Cole Description of subject: Holly Cole is a Canadian jazz singer known for her distinctive, smoky voice and inventive interpretations of standards and pop songs.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.