Zelma Davis
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Zelma Davis is a Liberian-born American singer and dancer best known as a vocalist for the early-1990s dance group C+C Music Factory.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Zelma Davis canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6557094 — 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: Zelma Davis Context triple: [Robert Clivillés, associatedAct, Zelma Davis]
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A.
Edna Mae McCauley
Edna Mae McCauley is the central character in the 1980 drama film "Resurrection," a woman who miraculously survives a near-fatal accident and discovers she has the power to heal others.
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B.
Elsie Mae Gardner
Elsie Mae Gardner was one of the sisters of famed American actress Ava Gardner, belonging to the same North Carolina family background.
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C.
Zelma Atwood
Zelma Atwood is best known as the widow of legendary soul singer Otis Redding and the longtime steward of his musical legacy and estate.
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D.
Mabel Ray Willis
Mabel Ray Willis is the daughter of American actor Bruce Willis and model Emma Heming Willis.
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E.
Lucille Wilson
Lucille Wilson was the fourth wife of jazz legend Louis Armstrong, known for her long marriage to him and for preserving and promoting his legacy.
- 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: Zelma Davis Target entity description: Zelma Davis is a Liberian-born American singer and dancer best known as a vocalist for the early-1990s dance group C+C Music Factory.
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A.
Edna Mae McCauley
Edna Mae McCauley is the central character in the 1980 drama film "Resurrection," a woman who miraculously survives a near-fatal accident and discovers she has the power to heal others.
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B.
Elsie Mae Gardner
Elsie Mae Gardner was one of the sisters of famed American actress Ava Gardner, belonging to the same North Carolina family background.
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C.
Zelma Atwood
Zelma Atwood is best known as the widow of legendary soul singer Otis Redding and the longtime steward of his musical legacy and estate.
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D.
Mabel Ray Willis
Mabel Ray Willis is the daughter of American actor Bruce Willis and model Emma Heming Willis.
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E.
Lucille Wilson
Lucille Wilson was the fourth wife of jazz legend Louis Armstrong, known for her long marriage to him and for preserving and promoting his legacy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American singer
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Liberian American ⓘ dancer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| activeInDecade | 1990s ⓘ |
| associatedAct | C+C Music Factory ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Liberia ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | African ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
dance
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music ⓘ |
| genre |
dance music
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house music ⓘ pop music ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Zelma Davis ⓘ |
| notableEvent | success of C+C Music Factory in early 1990s dance music charts ⓘ |
| notableFor | being a vocalist for C+C Music Factory in the early 1990s ⓘ |
| notableWork | Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now) ⓘ |
| occupation |
dancer
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singer ⓘ |
| partOf | C+C Music Factory ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| vocalistOn | Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now) ⓘ |
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: Zelma Davis Description of subject: Zelma Davis is a Liberian-born American singer and dancer best known as a vocalist for the early-1990s dance group C+C Music Factory.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
co-founding C+C Music Factory
subject linked to:
co-founding C+C Music Factory
subject linked to:
C+C Music Factory – Here We Go (Let’s Rock & Roll)