1985 MTV Video Music Awards
E1023402
The 1985 MTV Video Music Awards was the second annual ceremony honoring the year's top music videos, featuring performances and appearances by many of the decade's most prominent artists.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 1985 MTV Video Music Awards canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13106982 — 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: 1985 MTV Video Music Awards Context triple: [1984 MTV Video Music Awards, followedBy, 1985 MTV Video Music Awards]
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A.
1984 MTV Video Music Awards
The 1984 MTV Video Music Awards was the inaugural edition of MTV's annual ceremony honoring achievements in music videos, marking the beginning of one of pop culture's most influential award shows.
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B.
2000 MTV Video Music Awards
The 2000 MTV Video Music Awards was a major pop-culture event and awards show that highlighted the peak of late-1990s and early-2000s music, featuring high-profile performances, elaborate staging, and significant media attention.
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C.
2021 MTV Video Music Awards
The 2021 MTV Video Music Awards was a major music awards ceremony and live performance event honoring the year's most popular music videos and artists.
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D.
MTV Video Music Award
The MTV Video Music Award is a prominent music video accolade presented annually by MTV to honor outstanding achievements in the medium.
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E.
2011 MTV Video Music Awards
The 2011 MTV Video Music Awards was a major music awards ceremony honoring the year's most popular music videos, notable for high-profile performances and widely discussed pop culture moments.
- 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: 1985 MTV Video Music Awards Target entity description: The 1985 MTV Video Music Awards was the second annual ceremony honoring the year's top music videos, featuring performances and appearances by many of the decade's most prominent artists.
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A.
1984 MTV Video Music Awards
The 1984 MTV Video Music Awards was the inaugural edition of MTV's annual ceremony honoring achievements in music videos, marking the beginning of one of pop culture's most influential award shows.
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B.
2000 MTV Video Music Awards
The 2000 MTV Video Music Awards was a major pop-culture event and awards show that highlighted the peak of late-1990s and early-2000s music, featuring high-profile performances, elaborate staging, and significant media attention.
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C.
2021 MTV Video Music Awards
The 2021 MTV Video Music Awards was a major music awards ceremony and live performance event honoring the year's most popular music videos and artists.
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D.
MTV Video Music Award
The MTV Video Music Award is a prominent music video accolade presented annually by MTV to honor outstanding achievements in the medium.
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E.
2011 MTV Video Music Awards
The 2011 MTV Video Music Awards was a major music awards ceremony honoring the year's most popular music videos, notable for high-profile performances and widely discussed pop culture moments.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
award ceremony
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television special ⓘ |
| awardFor | music video ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| editionNumber | 2 ⓘ |
| follows | 1984 MTV Video Music Awards ⓘ |
| hasAwardCategory |
Best Art Direction in a Video
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Best Black Video ⓘ Best Choreography in a Video ⓘ Best Cinematography in a Video ⓘ Best Concept ⓘ Best Concept Video ⓘ Best Direction in a Video ⓘ Best Editing in a Video ⓘ Best Female ⓘ Best Female Video ⓘ Best Group ⓘ Best Group Video ⓘ Best Home Video ⓘ Best Long Form Video ⓘ Best Male ⓘ Best Male Video ⓘ Best New Artist ⓘ Best New Artist in a Video ⓘ Best Overall Performance ⓘ Best Overall Performance in a Video ⓘ Best Overall Video ⓘ Best Post-Modern Video ⓘ Best Special Effects in a Video ⓘ Best Stage Performance ⓘ Best Stage Performance in a Video ⓘ Most Experimental Video ⓘ Video Vanguard Award ⓘ Video of the Year ⓘ Viewer's Choice ⓘ
linked to:
Viewer's Choice Award
Viewer's Choice Award ⓘ |
| hasGenre | music award show ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity |
New York
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New York City ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| mainSubject | music videos ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| network | MTV ⓘ |
| partOfSeries |
MTV Video Music Awards
ⓘ
linked to:
MTV Video Music Award
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| pointInTime | 1985 ⓘ |
| presentedBy | MTV ⓘ |
| venue | Radio City Music Hall ⓘ |
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: 1985 MTV Video Music Awards Description of subject: The 1985 MTV Video Music Awards was the second annual ceremony honoring the year's top music videos, featuring performances and appearances by many of the decade's most prominent artists.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.