Bernice Johnson Reagon
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a cappella ensemble
civil rights activist
composer
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music historian
musical group
scholar
singer
singer-songwriter
Bernice Johnson Reagon is an American singer, composer, scholar, and civil rights activist best known for her work in African American spirituals and as the founder of the a cappella ensemble Sweet Honey in the Rock.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bernice Johnson Reagon canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2431355 — 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: Bernice Johnson Reagon Context triple: [SNCC Freedom Singers, notableMember, Bernice Johnson Reagon]
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A.
Cordell Reagon
Cordell Reagon was a civil rights activist and singer best known as a founding member of the Freedom Singers and an early organizer in the U.S. civil rights movement.
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B.
Dede Allen
Dede Allen was a pioneering American film editor renowned for her innovative, influential cutting style on landmark movies of the New Hollywood era.
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C.
Thelma Evans
Thelma Evans is a central character on the 1970s sitcom "Good Times," known as the smart, independent, and strong-willed daughter of the Evans family.
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D.
Gloria Hatrick McLean
Gloria Hatrick McLean was an American actress and model best known as the longtime wife of Hollywood star James Stewart and for her involvement in social and charitable activities.
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E.
Yolanda Adams
Yolanda Adams is an American gospel singer, radio host, and actress renowned for her powerful vocals and influential contemporary gospel recordings.
- 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: Bernice Johnson Reagon Target entity description: Bernice Johnson Reagon is an American singer, composer, scholar, and civil rights activist best known for her work in African American spirituals and as the founder of the a cappella ensemble Sweet Honey in the Rock.
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A.
Cordell Reagon
Cordell Reagon was a civil rights activist and singer best known as a founding member of the Freedom Singers and an early organizer in the U.S. civil rights movement.
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B.
Dede Allen
Dede Allen was a pioneering American film editor renowned for her innovative, influential cutting style on landmark movies of the New Hollywood era.
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C.
Thelma Evans
Thelma Evans is a central character on the 1970s sitcom "Good Times," known as the smart, independent, and strong-willed daughter of the Evans family.
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D.
Gloria Hatrick McLean
Gloria Hatrick McLean was an American actress and model best known as the longtime wife of Hollywood star James Stewart and for her involvement in social and charitable activities.
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E.
Yolanda Adams
Yolanda Adams is an American gospel singer, radio host, and actress renowned for her powerful vocals and influential contemporary gospel recordings.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Bernice Johnson Reagon Description of subject: Bernice Johnson Reagon is an American singer, composer, scholar, and civil rights activist best known for her work in African American spirituals and as the founder of the a cappella ensemble Sweet Honey in the Rock.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Bernice Johnson Reagon’s group Sweet Honey in the Rock
subject linked to:
Bernice Johnson Reagon’s group Sweet Honey in the Rock