Mr. Telephone Man
E140494
"Mr. Telephone Man" is a 1984 R&B single by New Edition, known for its catchy melody and narrative about phone-line heartbreak.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mr. Telephone Man canonical | 4 |
| Mr. Telephone Man (song) | 3 |
| Mr. Telephone Man (song by New Edition) | 1 |
| Mr. Telephone Man (song, as member of New Edition) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1230539 — 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: Mr. Telephone Man Context triple: [New Edition, notableWork, Mr. Telephone Man]
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A.
Call You Tonight
"Call You Tonight" is a song by Whitney Houston from her 2009 comeback album "I Look to You."
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B.
Telefone (Long Distance Love Affair)
"Telefone (Long Distance Love Affair)" is a 1983 synth-pop song by Scottish singer Sheena Easton that became one of her notable hits in the early 1980s.
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C.
The Man That Got Away
"The Man That Got Away" is a torch song from the 1954 film *A Star Is Born*, widely regarded as one of Judy Garland’s most iconic and emotionally powerful performances.
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D.
The Phone Booth
The Phone Booth is a nickname for the MCI Center, a former multi-purpose sports and entertainment arena in Washington, D.C.
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E.
A Friendly Call
"A Friendly Call" is an 1895 oil painting by American Impressionist William Merritt Chase, depicting two elegantly dressed women conversing in a refined domestic interior.
- 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: Mr. Telephone Man Target entity description: "Mr. Telephone Man" is a 1984 R&B single by New Edition, known for its catchy melody and narrative about phone-line heartbreak.
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A.
Call You Tonight
"Call You Tonight" is a song by Whitney Houston from her 2009 comeback album "I Look to You."
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B.
Telefone (Long Distance Love Affair)
"Telefone (Long Distance Love Affair)" is a 1983 synth-pop song by Scottish singer Sheena Easton that became one of her notable hits in the early 1980s.
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C.
The Man That Got Away
"The Man That Got Away" is a torch song from the 1954 film *A Star Is Born*, widely regarded as one of Judy Garland’s most iconic and emotionally powerful performances.
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D.
The Phone Booth
The Phone Booth is a nickname for the MCI Center, a former multi-purpose sports and entertainment arena in Washington, D.C.
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E.
A Friendly Call
"A Friendly Call" is an 1895 oil painting by American Impressionist William Merritt Chase, depicting two elegantly dressed women conversing in a refined domestic interior.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Mr. Telephone Man Description of subject: "Mr. Telephone Man" is a 1984 R&B single by New Edition, known for its catchy melody and narrative about phone-line heartbreak.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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