Deloris Jordan
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Deloris Jordan is the mother of basketball legend Michael Jordan, known for her influential role in his upbringing and for her work as an author and philanthropist.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Deloris Jordan canonical | 11 |
| Deloris E. Jordan | 5 |
| Deloris Jordan II | 2 |
| Deloris | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1790875 — 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: Deloris Jordan Context triple: [Air (2023 film), portrays, Deloris Jordan]
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A.
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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B.
Leola Brown
Leola Brown was the wife of Oliver Brown, the named plaintiff in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court school desegregation case Brown v. Board of Education.
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C.
Gloria Lloyd
Gloria Lloyd is the daughter of legendary silent film comedian Harold Lloyd and was part of his prominent Hollywood family.
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D.
Deloris Van Cartier
Deloris Van Cartier is the lively lounge singer-turned-nun-in-hiding at the center of the comedy film "Sister Act."
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E.
Loretta Brown
Loretta Brown is a fictional character from the animated television series "Family Guy" and its spin-off "The Cleveland Show," known as Cleveland Brown's first 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: Deloris Jordan Target entity description: Deloris Jordan is the mother of basketball legend Michael Jordan, known for her influential role in his upbringing and for her work as an author and philanthropist.
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A.
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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B.
Leola Brown
Leola Brown was the wife of Oliver Brown, the named plaintiff in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court school desegregation case Brown v. Board of Education.
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C.
Gloria Lloyd
Gloria Lloyd is the daughter of legendary silent film comedian Harold Lloyd and was part of his prominent Hollywood family.
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D.
Deloris Van Cartier
Deloris Van Cartier is the lively lounge singer-turned-nun-in-hiding at the center of the comedy film "Sister Act."
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E.
Loretta Brown
Loretta Brown is a fictional character from the animated television series "Family Guy" and its spin-off "The Cleveland Show," known as Cleveland Brown's first wife.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
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: Deloris Jordan Description of subject: Deloris Jordan is the mother of basketball legend Michael Jordan, known for her influential role in his upbringing and for her work as an author and philanthropist.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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