Spandau Ballet
E104144
Spandau Ballet is a British new wave band best known for their 1980s hits like "True" and "Gold."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Spandau Ballet canonical | 69 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T878104 — 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: Spandau Ballet Context triple: [Gary Kemp, memberOf, Spandau Ballet]
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A.
Pet Shop Boys
Pet Shop Boys are an English synth-pop duo known for their sophisticated electronic sound and witty, literate lyrics, featuring Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe.
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B.
The Buggles
The Buggles were a British new wave band best known for their pioneering 1979 synth-pop hit "Video Killed the Radio Star."
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C.
Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Frankie Goes to Hollywood was a British pop band from Liverpool best known for their provocative image and 1980s hits like "Relax" and "Two Tribes."
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D.
The Stone Roses
The Stone Roses are an influential English rock band from Manchester, widely credited with pioneering the late-1980s Madchester scene by blending alternative rock, psychedelia, and dance music.
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E.
Take That
Take That is a British pop group formed in Manchester in 1990, known for their chart-topping hits, elaborate live shows, and status as one of the UK’s most successful boy bands.
- 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: Spandau Ballet Target entity description: Spandau Ballet is a British new wave band best known for their 1980s hits like "True" and "Gold."
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A.
Pet Shop Boys
Pet Shop Boys are an English synth-pop duo known for their sophisticated electronic sound and witty, literate lyrics, featuring Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe.
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B.
The Buggles
The Buggles were a British new wave band best known for their pioneering 1979 synth-pop hit "Video Killed the Radio Star."
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C.
Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Frankie Goes to Hollywood was a British pop band from Liverpool best known for their provocative image and 1980s hits like "Relax" and "Two Tribes."
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D.
The Stone Roses
The Stone Roses are an influential English rock band from Manchester, widely credited with pioneering the late-1980s Madchester scene by blending alternative rock, psychedelia, and dance music.
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E.
Take That
Take That is a British pop group formed in Manchester in 1990, known for their chart-topping hits, elaborate live shows, and status as one of the UK’s most successful boy bands.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
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: Spandau Ballet Description of subject: Spandau Ballet is a British new wave band best known for their 1980s hits like "True" and "Gold."
Referenced by (69)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Band Aid – Do They Know It’s Christmas?
subject linked to:
True (album)
subject linked to:
True (album)
subject linked to:
Communication
subject linked to:
Communication