Della Reese
E207289
American singer
Christian minister
actress
film actress
gospel singer
human
jazz singer
ordained minister
television actress
television personality
Della Reese was an American jazz and gospel singer, actress, and ordained minister best known for her rich contralto voice and her starring role on the television series "Touched by an Angel."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Della Reese canonical | 35 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1862173 — 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: Della Reese Context triple: [Mahalia Jackson, influenced, Della Reese]
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A.
Cicely Tyson
Cicely Tyson was an acclaimed American actress renowned for her powerful, trailblazing portrayals of strong Black women in film, television, and theater.
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B.
Janice McNair
Janice McNair is an American businesswoman and sports executive best known as the principal owner of the NFL’s Houston Texans.
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C.
Phylicia Rashad
Phylicia Rashad is an American actress, singer, and director best known for her role as Clair Huxtable on the television series "The Cosby Show."
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D.
Verna Fields
Verna Fields was an American film editor best known for her Oscar-winning work on the blockbuster thriller "Jaws" and her influential role in New Hollywood cinema.
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E.
Lena Horne
Lena Horne was an acclaimed American singer, actress, and civil rights activist renowned for her work in jazz and popular music as well as her groundbreaking roles in film and television.
- 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: Della Reese Target entity description: Della Reese was an American jazz and gospel singer, actress, and ordained minister best known for her rich contralto voice and her starring role on the television series "Touched by an Angel."
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A.
Cicely Tyson
Cicely Tyson was an acclaimed American actress renowned for her powerful, trailblazing portrayals of strong Black women in film, television, and theater.
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B.
Janice McNair
Janice McNair is an American businesswoman and sports executive best known as the principal owner of the NFL’s Houston Texans.
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C.
Phylicia Rashad
Phylicia Rashad is an American actress, singer, and director best known for her role as Clair Huxtable on the television series "The Cosby Show."
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D.
Verna Fields
Verna Fields was an American film editor best known for her Oscar-winning work on the blockbuster thriller "Jaws" and her influential role in New Hollywood cinema.
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E.
Lena Horne
Lena Horne was an acclaimed American singer, actress, and civil rights activist renowned for her work in jazz and popular music as well as her groundbreaking roles in film and television.
- 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: Della Reese Description of subject: Della Reese was an American jazz and gospel singer, actress, and ordained minister best known for her rich contralto voice and her starring role on the television series "Touched by an Angel."
Referenced by (35)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Disney's 2000 film "Dinosaur" (branding tie-in)
subject linked to:
Delloreese
subject linked to:
"Don’t You Know?"
subject linked to:
"Don’t You Know?"
subject linked to:
"Don’t You Know?"
subject linked to:
You Better Go Now
subject linked to:
Production was disrupted by the death of star Redd Foxx in 1991.
subject linked to:
Production was disrupted by the death of star Redd Foxx in 1991.
subject linked to:
Production was disrupted by the death of star Redd Foxx in 1991.
subject linked to:
“I’m Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter”