Clive Langer
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Clive Langer is a British record producer, songwriter, and musician best known for his influential work with bands such as Madness, Dexys Midnight Runners, and Elvis Costello.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Clive Langer canonical | 33 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2074489 — 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: Clive Langer Context triple: [Langer, hasNotableBearer, Clive Langer]
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A.
Donald Davies
Donald Davies was a British computer scientist who pioneered the concept of packet switching, a foundational technology for modern computer networks and the internet.
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B.
Barry Ackroyd
Barry Ackroyd is a British cinematographer renowned for his gritty, handheld visual style in films such as The Hurt Locker, United 93, and Captain Phillips.
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C.
Mick Audsley
Mick Audsley is a British film editor known for his work on numerous major feature films, including collaborations with directors like Terry Gilliam and Stephen Frears.
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D.
Nigel Shadbolt
Nigel Shadbolt is a British computer scientist and artificial intelligence researcher known for his leading role in promoting open data and digital governance.
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E.
Steven Pemberton
Steven Pemberton is a British computer scientist and software engineer known for his work on programming languages, web standards, and contributions to the development of ABC and early Python influences.
- 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: Clive Langer Target entity description: Clive Langer is a British record producer, songwriter, and musician best known for his influential work with bands such as Madness, Dexys Midnight Runners, and Elvis Costello.
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A.
Donald Davies
Donald Davies was a British computer scientist who pioneered the concept of packet switching, a foundational technology for modern computer networks and the internet.
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B.
Barry Ackroyd
Barry Ackroyd is a British cinematographer renowned for his gritty, handheld visual style in films such as The Hurt Locker, United 93, and Captain Phillips.
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C.
Mick Audsley
Mick Audsley is a British film editor known for his work on numerous major feature films, including collaborations with directors like Terry Gilliam and Stephen Frears.
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D.
Nigel Shadbolt
Nigel Shadbolt is a British computer scientist and artificial intelligence researcher known for his leading role in promoting open data and digital governance.
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E.
Steven Pemberton
Steven Pemberton is a British computer scientist and software engineer known for his work on programming languages, web standards, and contributions to the development of ABC and early Python influences.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British person
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guitarist ⓘ human ⓘ music producer duo member ⓘ musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activeIn | music industry ⓘ |
| activeSince | 1970s ⓘ |
| basedIn |
London
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linked to:
London, England
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| collaboratedWith | Alan Winstanley ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| coWroteWith | Elvis Costello ⓘ |
| genre |
new wave
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pop ⓘ rock ⓘ ska ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Clive Langer and the Boxes
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Deaf School ⓘ |
| notableWork |
co-writing the song "Shipbuilding"
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producing Dexys Midnight Runners album "Too-Rye-Ay" ⓘ producing Elvis Costello album "Goodbye Cruel World" ⓘ producing Elvis Costello album "Punch the Clock" ⓘ producing Madness album "7" ⓘ producing Madness album "Absolutely" ⓘ producing Madness album "Keep Moving" ⓘ producing Madness album "One Step Beyond..." ⓘ producing Madness album "The Rise & Fall" ⓘ producing Morrissey album "Vauxhall and I" ⓘ producing Morrissey album "Your Arsenal" ⓘ production partnership Langer/Winstanley ⓘ production work with Bush ⓘ production work with Catatonia ⓘ production work with David Bowie ⓘ production work with Dexys Midnight Runners ⓘ production work with Elvis Costello ⓘ production work with Elvis Costello and the Attractions ⓘ production work with Hothouse Flowers ⓘ production work with Madness ⓘ production work with Morrissey ⓘ production work with The Neville Brothers ⓘ production work with The Teardrop Explodes ⓘ production work with The Thrills ⓘ production work with They Might Be Giants ⓘ |
| occupation |
guitarist
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musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
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: Clive Langer Description of subject: Clive Langer is a British record producer, songwriter, and musician best known for his influential work with bands such as Madness, Dexys Midnight Runners, and Elvis Costello.
Referenced by (33)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.