Lisa Coleman – backing vocals
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Lisa Coleman is an American musician and vocalist best known as a longtime member of Prince’s backing band The Revolution.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lisa Coleman – backing vocals canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9424792 — 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: Lisa Coleman – backing vocals Context triple: [Dirty Mind, personnel, Lisa Coleman – backing vocals]
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A.
Laura Bettinson – vocalist
Laura Bettinson is a British singer and songwriter best known as the lead vocalist of the experimental electronic band Ultraísta.
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B.
Patty Smyth
Patty Smyth is an American rock singer and songwriter best known as the lead vocalist of the band Scandal and for solo hits like "Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough."
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C.
Merry Clayton
Merry Clayton is an American soul and gospel singer best known for her powerful, haunting backing vocals on the Rolling Stones' song "Gimme Shelter."
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D.
Kathy Valentine
Kathy Valentine is an American musician best known as the bassist for the pioneering all-female rock band The Go-Go’s.
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E.
Debbie Sledge
Debbie Sledge is an American singer best known as a founding member and lead vocalist of the R&B/disco group Sister Sledge, famous for hits like "We Are Family."
- 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: Lisa Coleman – backing vocals Target entity description: Lisa Coleman is an American musician and vocalist best known as a longtime member of Prince’s backing band The Revolution.
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A.
Laura Bettinson – vocalist
Laura Bettinson is a British singer and songwriter best known as the lead vocalist of the experimental electronic band Ultraísta.
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B.
Patty Smyth
Patty Smyth is an American rock singer and songwriter best known as the lead vocalist of the band Scandal and for solo hits like "Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough."
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C.
Merry Clayton
Merry Clayton is an American soul and gospel singer best known for her powerful, haunting backing vocals on the Rolling Stones' song "Gimme Shelter."
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D.
Kathy Valentine
Kathy Valentine is an American musician best known as the bassist for the pioneering all-female rock band The Go-Go’s.
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E.
Debbie Sledge
Debbie Sledge is an American singer best known as a founding member and lead vocalist of the R&B/disco group Sister Sledge, famous for hits like "We Are Family."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American person
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backing vocalist ⓘ composer ⓘ human ⓘ keyboardist ⓘ musician ⓘ |
| activeIn | music industry ⓘ |
| activity | backing vocals for Prince ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Prince
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The Revolution ⓘ |
| basedOn | American music scene ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| familyName | Coleman ⓘ |
| genre |
R&B
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funk ⓘ pop ⓘ rock ⓘ soul ⓘ |
| givenName | Lisa ⓘ |
| instrument |
keyboards
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piano ⓘ synthesizer ⓘ |
| memberOf | The Revolution ⓘ |
| name | Lisa Coleman ⓘ |
| nationality |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
|
| notableFor | longtime member of Prince’s backing band The Revolution ⓘ |
| notableWork | work with Prince and The Revolution ⓘ |
| occupation |
backing vocalist
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composer ⓘ keyboardist ⓘ musician ⓘ vocalist ⓘ |
| vocalRole | backing vocals ⓘ |
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: Lisa Coleman – backing vocals Description of subject: Lisa Coleman is an American musician and vocalist best known as a longtime member of Prince’s backing band The Revolution.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.