entertainer

C1937
concept

An entertainer is a person who performs acts such as music, comedy, drama, or other artistic expressions to engage, amuse, or captivate an audience.

All labels observed (16)

Label Occurrences
entertainer canonical 122
performer 75
cabaret performer 32

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: entertainer
Generated description
An entertainer is a person who performs acts such as music, comedy, drama, or other artistic expressions to engage, amuse, or captivate an audience.

Instances (290)

Instance Via concept surface
P. J. Proby —
Nadia Turner performer
Max Tailleur cabaret performer
Louise Bennett-Coverley performer
Eddie "Knuckles" Crull performer
Emma Maria Cordsen performer
Bruce Forsyth
linked to: Julie Forsyth
—
Mercedes Moné —
Ken Dodd —
Earl Brockelsby showman
Lillian Smith performer
Wayland Flowers ventriloquist
Shirley Bassey live performer
Violetta Villas cabaret performer
Michael Sidney Luft show business figure
Christine Keeler showgirl
Wayne Newton —
Peter Allen —
Jasmine Trias —
Thomas Gottschalk —
Eddie Fisher —
Liberace —
Victoria Chaplin
linked to: Le Cirque Bonjour
performer
Sammy Davis Jr. —
Max Quordlepleen —
Martha Raye USO entertainer
Fred Willard improviser
Nickolas Ashford performer
Noël Coward cabaret performer
Oladapo Daniel Oyebanjo —
D'banj —
Edith Louisa Sylvia Hawkes showgirl
Rolf Harris —
Helen O’Connell —
Raymond Joseph Teller —
Penn & Teller American entertainers
Al Jolson
linked to: Erle Galbraith
—
Shirley Abicair —
Lawrence Welk —
Anna Meredith performer
Annie Oakley —
Tommy Steele —
Asa Yoelson —
Professor Westervelt showman
Adele Marie Austerlitz —
Leslie Hutchinson cabaret performer
Rijk de Gooyer cabaret performer
Maurice Chevalier —
Jeff Dunham ventriloquist
Fats Waller —