It has been observed that languages sometimes grammatically distinguish different flavors of predication using distinct copular be-verbs. In this paper I show that Kifuliiru (Bantu, JD63) exhibits three distinct be-verbs in present tense "pure" predicational clauses: -li, -muba, and -tula. The interpretive differences between the three copulas are shown to mirror the differences between the three non-verbal predicate types presented in Roy (2013); -li yields situation-descriptive interpretations, -muba yields characterizing interpretations, and -tula yields defining interpretations. From these observations I present an analysis of the interpretive contrasts in the Kifuliiru copular system, and discuss it relative to the broader literature on non-verbal predication. Ultimately I show that neither a binary stage/individual contrast (Milsark 1974, Carlson 1977, Diesing 1992, Kratzer 1995 a.o.) nor a purely structural account (Roy 2013) can sufficiently explain the three-way copular contrast in Kifuliiru, suggesting that we may need more fine-grained predicational distinctions to capture the range of interpretive contrasts observed in copular systems.