John Holt
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John Holt was a renowned Jamaican reggae and rocksteady singer and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist of The Paragons and for his influential solo career.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Holt canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10477489 — 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: John Holt Context triple: [Help Me Make It Through the Night, notableCoverPerformer, John Holt]
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A.
Rudolf Dreikurs
Rudolf Dreikurs was an Austrian-born psychiatrist and educator known for developing and popularizing Adlerian psychology, particularly in the fields of child guidance, classroom management, and democratic parenting.
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B.
Robert Coles
Robert Coles is an American child psychiatrist, author, and Harvard professor renowned for his influential studies of children’s moral and spiritual lives and for his extensive writings on social and ethical issues.
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C.
William Damon
William Damon is an American psychologist and professor best known for his research on moral development and youth purpose, and for his work at Stanford University’s Center on Adolescence.
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D.
Douglas John Fisher
Douglas John Fisher is an American Episcopal bishop who serves as the spiritual and administrative leader of the Episcopal Diocese of Western Massachusetts.
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E.
Rand Ravich
Rand Ravich is an American screenwriter, director, and producer best known for creating and producing television series such as "Crisis" and "Life" and writing the film "The Astronaut's Wife."
- 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: John Holt Target entity description: John Holt was a renowned Jamaican reggae and rocksteady singer and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist of The Paragons and for his influential solo career.
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A.
Rudolf Dreikurs
Rudolf Dreikurs was an Austrian-born psychiatrist and educator known for developing and popularizing Adlerian psychology, particularly in the fields of child guidance, classroom management, and democratic parenting.
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B.
Robert Coles
Robert Coles is an American child psychiatrist, author, and Harvard professor renowned for his influential studies of children’s moral and spiritual lives and for his extensive writings on social and ethical issues.
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C.
William Damon
William Damon is an American psychologist and professor best known for his research on moral development and youth purpose, and for his work at Stanford University’s Center on Adolescence.
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D.
Douglas John Fisher
Douglas John Fisher is an American Episcopal bishop who serves as the spiritual and administrative leader of the Episcopal Diocese of Western Massachusetts.
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E.
Rand Ravich
Rand Ravich is an American screenwriter, director, and producer best known for creating and producing television series such as "Crisis" and "Life" and writing the film "The Astronaut's Wife."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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reggae musician ⓘ rocksteady musician ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 2014 ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1960 ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Duke Reid
NERFINISHED
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King Tubby NERFINISHED ⓘ Prince Buster NERFINISHED ⓘ Sly and Robbie NERFINISHED ⓘ The Paragons NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | John Kenneth Holt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Jamaica NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | illness ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Jamaica ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1947-07-11 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2014-10-19 ⓘ |
| genre |
lovers rock
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reggae ⓘ rocksteady ⓘ |
| hasGenreRole | pioneer of lovers rock style ⓘ |
| influencedGenre |
lovers rock
ⓘ
reggae ⓘ |
| instrument | vocals ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | The Paragons NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | John Holt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableSongWithGroup |
On the Beach
NERFINISHED
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The Tide Is High NERFINISHED ⓘ Wear You to the Ball NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Ali Baba
NERFINISHED
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Help Me Make It Through the Night NERFINISHED ⓘ Police in Helicopter NERFINISHED ⓘ Stealing Stealing NERFINISHED ⓘ Stick By Me NERFINISHED ⓘ Strange Things NERFINISHED ⓘ The Tide Is High NERFINISHED ⓘ Wear You to the Ball NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
singer
ⓘ
songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Kingston, Jamaica NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | London, United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionInGroup | lead vocalist of The Paragons ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Greensleeves Records
NERFINISHED
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Studio One NERFINISHED ⓘ Treasure Isle NERFINISHED ⓘ Trojan Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| vocalStyle | smooth romantic tenor ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: John Holt Description of subject: John Holt was a renowned Jamaican reggae and rocksteady singer and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist of The Paragons and for his influential solo career.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.