Gary Jules
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Gary Jules is an American singer-songwriter best known for his haunting cover of "Mad World," which gained widespread recognition through its use in the film Donnie Darko.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gary Jules canonical | 5 |
| Gary Jules Aguirre Jr. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13481170 — 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: Gary Jules Context triple: [Donnie Darko, notableSongPerformer, Gary Jules]
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A.
Marti Pellow
Marti Pellow is a Scottish singer best known as the lead vocalist of the pop band Wet Wet Wet and for his successful solo career.
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B.
John Glynne
John Glynne was a 17th-century English lawyer, judge, and politician who played a prominent role during the English Civil War and the Interregnum.
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C.
Craig David
Craig David is a British singer, songwriter, and record producer best known for his early-2000s UK garage and R&B hits such as "Fill Me In" and "7 Days."
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D.
Daniel Bedingfield
Daniel Bedingfield is a New Zealand–British singer-songwriter and producer best known for his early-2000s pop and garage hits such as "Gotta Get Thru This."
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E.
Craig Martin
Craig Martin is an American actor and producer best known as one of the sons of legendary entertainer Dean Martin.
- 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: Gary Jules Target entity description: Gary Jules is an American singer-songwriter best known for his haunting cover of "Mad World," which gained widespread recognition through its use in the film Donnie Darko.
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A.
Marti Pellow
Marti Pellow is a Scottish singer best known as the lead vocalist of the pop band Wet Wet Wet and for his successful solo career.
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B.
John Glynne
John Glynne was a 17th-century English lawyer, judge, and politician who played a prominent role during the English Civil War and the Interregnum.
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C.
Craig David
Craig David is a British singer, songwriter, and record producer best known for his early-2000s UK garage and R&B hits such as "Fill Me In" and "7 Days."
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D.
Daniel Bedingfield
Daniel Bedingfield is a New Zealand–British singer-songwriter and producer best known for his early-2000s pop and garage hits such as "Gotta Get Thru This."
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E.
Craig Martin
Craig Martin is an American actor and producer best known as one of the sons of legendary entertainer Dean Martin.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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recording artist ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ |
| activeIn |
1990s music scene
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2000s music scene ⓘ 2010s music scene ⓘ |
| associatedAct | Michael Andrews ⓘ |
| birthName |
Gary Jules Aguirre Jr.
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linked to:
Gary Jules
|
| collaboratedWith | Michael Andrews ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| coveredWork |
Mad World by Tears for Fears
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linked to:
Mad World
|
| familyName | Aguirre ⓘ |
| featuredIn | soundtrack of film Donnie Darko ⓘ |
| genre |
acoustic rock
ⓘ
folk rock ⓘ indie rock ⓘ |
| givenName | Gary ⓘ |
| hasDiscographyEntry |
Bird (album)
ⓘ
Gary Jules (self-titled album) ⓘ
linked to:
Gary Jules (album)
Greetings from the Side (album) ⓘ Trading Snakeoil for Wolftickets (album) ⓘ |
| hasMusicVideoFor |
Mad World (cover version)
ⓘ
linked to:
Mad World
|
| hasOfficialWebsite | http://www.garyjules.com/ ⓘ |
| instrument |
guitar
ⓘ
piano ⓘ vocals ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| madWorldVersionChartSuccessIn | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| madWorldVersionReached |
UK Singles Chart number one
ⓘ
linked to:
UK Singles Chart
|
| madWorldVersionReleasedAs | single ⓘ |
| madWorldVersionUsedIn |
Donnie Darko (2001 film)
ⓘ
linked to:
Donnie Darko
|
| name | Gary Jules ⓘ |
| notableFor | haunting cover of Mad World ⓘ |
| notableSong |
Mad World (cover version)
ⓘ
linked to:
Mad World
|
| notableWork |
Gary Jules (album)
ⓘ
Greetings from the Side ⓘ Mad World (cover version) ⓘ
linked to:
Mad World
Trading Snakeoil for Wolftickets ⓘ |
| occupation |
guitarist
ⓘ
musician ⓘ singer ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ |
| performedGenre | singer-songwriter music ⓘ |
| placeOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| recorded |
Mad World (with Michael Andrews)
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linked to:
Mad World
|
| songwriterOf |
songs on Gary Jules (album)
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songs on Greetings from the Side ⓘ songs on Trading Snakeoil for Wolftickets ⓘ |
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: Gary Jules Description of subject: Gary Jules is an American singer-songwriter best known for his haunting cover of "Mad World," which gained widespread recognition through its use in the film Donnie Darko.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.