Paula Abdul
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Paula Abdul is an American singer, dancer, choreographer, and television personality best known for her chart-topping pop hits and longtime role as a judge on American Idol.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Paula Abdul canonical | 12 |
| Paula Julie Abdul | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1225960 — 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: Paula Abdul Context triple: [American Idol (season 3), judge, Paula Abdul]
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A.
Cyndi Lauper
Cyndi Lauper is an American singer, songwriter, and actress known for her distinctive voice, eclectic style, and 1980s pop hits such as "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" and "Time After Time."
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B.
Donna Summer
Donna Summer was an American singer, songwriter, and “Queen of Disco” whose powerful vocals and string of 1970s and 1980s dance hits made her an icon of popular music.
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C.
Stacy Lattisaw
Stacy Lattisaw is an American R&B singer best known for her successful run of soulful hits in the late 1970s and 1980s, including the song "Let Me Be Your Angel."
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D.
Tyra Banks
Tyra Banks is an American supermodel, television personality, producer, and businesswoman best known for creating and hosting "America's Next Top Model" and co-hosting "The Tyra Banks Show."
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E.
Judy Howard
Judy Howard was the wife of American actor Rance Howard and the mother of filmmaker Ron Howard and actor Clint Howard.
- 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: Paula Abdul Target entity description: Paula Abdul is an American singer, dancer, choreographer, and television personality best known for her chart-topping pop hits and longtime role as a judge on American Idol.
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A.
Cyndi Lauper
Cyndi Lauper is an American singer, songwriter, and actress known for her distinctive voice, eclectic style, and 1980s pop hits such as "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" and "Time After Time."
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B.
Donna Summer
Donna Summer was an American singer, songwriter, and “Queen of Disco” whose powerful vocals and string of 1970s and 1980s dance hits made her an icon of popular music.
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C.
Stacy Lattisaw
Stacy Lattisaw is an American R&B singer best known for her successful run of soulful hits in the late 1970s and 1980s, including the song "Let Me Be Your Angel."
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D.
Tyra Banks
Tyra Banks is an American supermodel, television personality, producer, and businesswoman best known for creating and hosting "America's Next Top Model" and co-hosting "The Tyra Banks Show."
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E.
Judy Howard
Judy Howard was the wife of American actor Rance Howard and the mother of filmmaker Ron Howard and actor Clint Howard.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Paula Abdul Description of subject: Paula Abdul is an American singer, dancer, choreographer, and television personality best known for her chart-topping pop hits and longtime role as a judge on American Idol.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Paula Abdul