Roxy Music
E142227
Roxy Music is an influential English art rock band formed in the early 1970s, known for their innovative blend of glam rock, avant-garde style, and sophisticated pop.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Roxy Music canonical | 92 |
| Roxy Music (album) | 1 |
| Roxy Music (touring band) | 1 |
| Roxy Music album For Your Pleasure | 1 |
| Roxy Music album Siren | 1 |
| Roxy Music discography | 1 |
| Viva! Roxy Music | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1246789 — 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: Roxy Music Context triple: [Island Records, notableArtist, Roxy Music]
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A.
Spandau Ballet
Spandau Ballet is a British new wave band best known for their 1980s hits like "True" and "Gold."
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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.
XTC
XTC is an influential English rock band known for its inventive songwriting, melodic sophistication, and significant impact on new wave and alternative music from the late 1970s onward.
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D.
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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E.
Siouxsie and the Banshees
Siouxsie and the Banshees were an influential English post-punk and gothic rock band, led by singer Siouxsie Sioux, known for their dark, innovative sound and lasting impact on alternative music.
- 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: Roxy Music Target entity description: Roxy Music is an influential English art rock band formed in the early 1970s, known for their innovative blend of glam rock, avant-garde style, and sophisticated pop.
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A.
Spandau Ballet
Spandau Ballet is a British new wave band best known for their 1980s hits like "True" and "Gold."
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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.
XTC
XTC is an influential English rock band known for its inventive songwriting, melodic sophistication, and significant impact on new wave and alternative music from the late 1970s onward.
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D.
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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E.
Siouxsie and the Banshees
Siouxsie and the Banshees were an influential English post-punk and gothic rock band, led by singer Siouxsie Sioux, known for their dark, innovative sound and lasting impact on alternative music.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (85)
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: Roxy Music Description of subject: Roxy Music is an influential English art rock band formed in the early 1970s, known for their innovative blend of glam rock, avant-garde style, and sophisticated pop.
Referenced by (98)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.