Clarence Reid
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Clarence Reid was an American soul and R&B singer, songwriter, and producer, also known for his raunchy alter ego Blowfly.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Clarence Reid canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10717131 — 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: Clarence Reid Context triple: [Slow Down Baby, writer, Clarence Reid]
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A.
Clarence Rowland
Clarence Rowland was an American Major League Baseball manager best known for leading the Chicago White Sox to the 1917 World Series championship.
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B.
Harold Reid
Harold Reid was an American bass singer best known as a founding member of the country and gospel vocal group The Statler Brothers.
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C.
Clarence Johnson
Clarence "Kelly" Johnson was a pioneering American aeronautical engineer best known for leading Lockheed's Skunk Works and creating advanced aircraft such as the SR-71 Blackbird and F-104 Starfighter.
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D.
Clarence Johnson
Clarence Johnson is a singer best known as a member of the Chicago-based soul and R&B vocal group The Chi-Lites.
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E.
Clarence Anglin
Clarence Anglin was one of the three inmates who carried out the famous 1962 escape from Alcatraz prison, inspiring books and films about the still-unsolved case.
- 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: Clarence Reid Target entity description: Clarence Reid was an American soul and R&B singer, songwriter, and producer, also known for his raunchy alter ego Blowfly.
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A.
Clarence Rowland
Clarence Rowland was an American Major League Baseball manager best known for leading the Chicago White Sox to the 1917 World Series championship.
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B.
Harold Reid
Harold Reid was an American bass singer best known as a founding member of the country and gospel vocal group The Statler Brothers.
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C.
Clarence Johnson
Clarence "Kelly" Johnson was a pioneering American aeronautical engineer best known for leading Lockheed's Skunk Works and creating advanced aircraft such as the SR-71 Blackbird and F-104 Starfighter.
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D.
Clarence Johnson
Clarence Johnson is a singer best known as a member of the Chicago-based soul and R&B vocal group The Chi-Lites.
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E.
Clarence Anglin
Clarence Anglin was one of the three inmates who carried out the famous 1962 escape from Alcatraz prison, inspiring books and films about the still-unsolved case.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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record producer ⓘ rhythm and blues musician ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ soul musician ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 2010s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1960s ⓘ |
| alias | Blowfly NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Clarence Henry Reid NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Georgetown, South Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | liver cancer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1939-02-14 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2016-01-17 ⓘ |
| ethnicity | African-American ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy music
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funk ⓘ rhythm and blues ⓘ soul music ⓘ |
| influencedGenre |
hip hop
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rap ⓘ |
| knownFor |
pioneering early rap-style rhyming in music
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sexually explicit parody songs as Blowfly ⓘ |
| name | Clarence Reid NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
“Blowfly for President”
NERFINISHED
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“Blowfly on Tour” NERFINISHED ⓘ “Blowfly’s Disco Party” NERFINISHED ⓘ “Blowfly’s Disco” NERFINISHED ⓘ “Blowfly’s Freak Party” NERFINISHED ⓘ “Blowfly’s Party: At the F.B.I.” NERFINISHED ⓘ “Blowfly’s Party” NERFINISHED ⓘ “Blowfly’s Punk Rock Party” NERFINISHED ⓘ “Blowfly’s Zodiac Blowfly” NERFINISHED ⓘ “Funky Party” NERFINISHED ⓘ “Master Piece” NERFINISHED ⓘ “Nobody But You Babe” NERFINISHED ⓘ “Rapp Dirty” NERFINISHED ⓘ “The Weird World of Blowfly” NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
record producer
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singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Lauderhill, Florida NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Alston Records
NERFINISHED
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TK Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Weird World Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Miami, Florida NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedAs | staff songwriter at TK Records ⓘ |
| wroteSongsFor |
Betty Wright
NERFINISHED
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Gwen McCrae NERFINISHED ⓘ KC and the Sunshine Band NERFINISHED ⓘ Sam & Dave NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Clarence Reid Description of subject: Clarence Reid was an American soul and R&B singer, songwriter, and producer, also known for his raunchy alter ego Blowfly.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.