Edwin Starr
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Edwin Starr was an American soul and R&B singer best known for his powerful 1970 anti-war hit song "War."
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Edwin Starr canonical | 24 |
| Edwin Starr (singer) | 1 |
| Edwin Starr and The Undisputed Truth | 1 |
| Edwin Starr discography | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2447212 — 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: Edwin Starr Context triple: [Inglewood Park Cemetery, hasNotableBurial, Edwin Starr]
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A.
Eddie Kendricks
Eddie Kendricks was an American singer and founding member of The Temptations, renowned for his distinctive falsetto lead vocals on many of the group's classic Motown hits.
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B.
Curtis Mayfield
Curtis Mayfield was an influential American soul and funk singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer known for his socially conscious music and pioneering work with The Impressions and on the Super Fly soundtrack.
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C.
Stevie Wonder
Stevie Wonder is an iconic American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist whose innovative contributions to soul, pop, and R&B have made him one of the most influential musicians in modern music history.
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D.
James Brown
James Brown was an American publisher and co-founder of the prominent publishing house Little, Brown and Company in the 19th century.
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E.
James Brown
James Brown was an influential American singer, songwriter, bandleader, and dynamic performer widely known as the "Godfather of Soul" and a pioneer of funk music.
- 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: Edwin Starr Target entity description: Edwin Starr was an American soul and R&B singer best known for his powerful 1970 anti-war hit song "War."
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A.
Eddie Kendricks
Eddie Kendricks was an American singer and founding member of The Temptations, renowned for his distinctive falsetto lead vocals on many of the group's classic Motown hits.
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B.
Curtis Mayfield
Curtis Mayfield was an influential American soul and funk singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer known for his socially conscious music and pioneering work with The Impressions and on the Super Fly soundtrack.
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C.
Stevie Wonder
Stevie Wonder is an iconic American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist whose innovative contributions to soul, pop, and R&B have made him one of the most influential musicians in modern music history.
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D.
James Brown
James Brown was an American publisher and co-founder of the prominent publishing house Little, Brown and Company in the 19th century.
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E.
James Brown
James Brown was an influential American singer, songwriter, bandleader, and dynamic performer widely known as the "Godfather of Soul" and a pioneer of funk music.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Edwin Starr Description of subject: Edwin Starr was an American soul and R&B singer best known for his powerful 1970 anti-war hit song "War."
Referenced by (27)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
War
subject linked to:
War
linked to: Edwin Starr
linked to: Edwin Starr
linked to: Edwin Starr
subject linked to:
1970 anti-war hit song "War"
subject linked to:
1970 anti-war hit song "War"
subject linked to:
1970 anti-war hit song "War"
subject linked to:
"War" reached number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 in 1970
subject linked to:
"War" reached number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 in 1970