Reet Petite
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"Reet Petite" is a 1957 rhythm and blues song by Jackie Wilson that became one of his signature hits and later enjoyed a major chart resurgence in the 1980s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Reet Petite canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9391235 — 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: Reet Petite Context triple: [Jackie Wilson, notableWork, Reet Petite]
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A.
Petite Arvine
Petite Arvine is a high-quality white wine grape variety from Switzerland’s Valais region, known for producing aromatic, mineral-driven wines with vibrant acidity and notes of citrus and salt.
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B.
Marcelle
Marcelle is a given name, typically a feminine form of Marcel, used in various cultures.
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C.
Sylla Petit
Sylla Petit is an individual member of the Petit family, known primarily through their association with this family lineage.
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D.
Rose Dione
Rose Dione was a French-born actress active in early American silent cinema, known for character roles in films such as the 1921 adaptation of "Little Lord Fauntleroy."
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E.
Marcheline
Marcheline is the affectionate nickname of Marcheline Bertrand, an American actress and humanitarian best known as the mother of Angelina Jolie.
- 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: Reet Petite Target entity description: "Reet Petite" is a 1957 rhythm and blues song by Jackie Wilson that became one of his signature hits and later enjoyed a major chart resurgence in the 1980s.
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A.
Petite Arvine
Petite Arvine is a high-quality white wine grape variety from Switzerland’s Valais region, known for producing aromatic, mineral-driven wines with vibrant acidity and notes of citrus and salt.
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B.
Marcelle
Marcelle is a given name, typically a feminine form of Marcel, used in various cultures.
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C.
Sylla Petit
Sylla Petit is an individual member of the Petit family, known primarily through their association with this family lineage.
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D.
Rose Dione
Rose Dione was a French-born actress active in early American silent cinema, known for character roles in films such as the 1921 adaptation of "Little Lord Fauntleroy."
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E.
Marcheline
Marcheline is the affectionate nickname of Marcheline Bertrand, an American actress and humanitarian best known as the mother of Angelina Jolie.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Reet Petite (The Finest Girl You Ever Want to Meet) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Motown founder Berry Gordy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chartPerformance |
Irish Singles Chart number one in 1986
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UK Singles Chart number one in 1986 ⓘ UK Singles Chart top 10 in 1957 ⓘ US R&B chart hit in 1957 ⓘ |
| composer |
Berry Gordy
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Gwen Gordy Fuqua NERFINISHED ⓘ Tyran Carlo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| featuredIn | 1986 clay animation video for BBC Two show Arena ⓘ |
| firstSoloHitFor | Jackie Wilson GENERATED ⓘ |
| followedBy | Lonely Teardrops NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
rhythm and blues
ⓘ
rock and roll ⓘ |
| hadChartResurgence | 1986 ⓘ |
| hasBside | By the Light of the Silvery Moon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasInstrumentation |
horn section
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rhythm section ⓘ |
| hasSubtitle | The Finest Girl You Ever Want to Meet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTempo | up-tempo ⓘ |
| hasType | debut solo single ⓘ |
| includedIn | various Jackie Wilson compilation albums ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| length | 2:42 ⓘ |
| lyricist |
Berry Gordy
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Gwen Gordy Fuqua NERFINISHED ⓘ Tyran Carlo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainArtist | Jackie Wilson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicalEra | 1950s R&B ⓘ |
| musicVideoStyle | clay animation ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being one of Jackie Wilson's signature hits
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posthumous UK number-one success ⓘ |
| originalFormat | 7-inch single ⓘ |
| originalReleaseYear | 1957 ⓘ |
| performer | Jackie Wilson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| posthumousHitFor | Jackie Wilson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precededBy | To Be Loved NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Dick Jacobs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordedBy | Jackie Wilson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Brunswick Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1957-09-02 ⓘ |
| reReleaseYear | 1986 ⓘ |
| side | A-side ⓘ |
| signatureSongOf | Jackie Wilson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| vocalist | Jackie Wilson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearOfJackieWilsonsDeath | 1984 ⓘ |
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: Reet Petite Description of subject: "Reet Petite" is a 1957 rhythm and blues song by Jackie Wilson that became one of his signature hits and later enjoyed a major chart resurgence in the 1980s.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.