ABC
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ABC is a pioneering English new wave band best known for their polished, synth-driven pop sound and the influential 1982 album "The Lexicon of Love."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| ABC canonical | 36 |
| Absolutely ABC | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T269102 — 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: ABC Context triple: [Trevor Horn, associatedAct, ABC]
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A.
ABC
ABC is a major American broadcast television network known for airing a wide range of national programming, including sports championships, news, and entertainment shows.
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B.
BA
BA is the New York Stock Exchange ticker symbol for The Boeing Company, a major American aerospace and defense manufacturer.
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C.
ACE
ACE (Altamont Corridor Express) is a commuter rail service in California’s San Joaquin Valley and East Bay that provides weekday trains between Stockton and San Jose.
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D.
AL
AL is the common abbreviation for the American League, one of the two major professional baseball leagues that make up Major League Baseball in the United States and Canada.
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E.
ACA
ACA is a professional scientific organization that promotes the study and application of crystallography and structural science, primarily in North America.
- 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: ABC Target entity description: ABC is a pioneering English new wave band best known for their polished, synth-driven pop sound and the influential 1982 album "The Lexicon of Love."
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A.
ABC
ABC is a major American broadcast television network known for airing a wide range of national programming, including sports championships, news, and entertainment shows.
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B.
BA
BA is the New York Stock Exchange ticker symbol for The Boeing Company, a major American aerospace and defense manufacturer.
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C.
ACE
ACE (Altamont Corridor Express) is a commuter rail service in California’s San Joaquin Valley and East Bay that provides weekday trains between Stockton and San Jose.
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D.
AL
AL is the common abbreviation for the American League, one of the two major professional baseball leagues that make up Major League Baseball in the United States and Canada.
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E.
ACA
ACA is a professional scientific organization that promotes the study and application of crystallography and structural science, primarily in North America.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English new wave band
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musical group ⓘ singer ⓘ studio album ⓘ |
| activeInDecade | 1980s ⓘ |
| basedIn | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
England
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| genre |
new wave
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new wave ⓘ pop ⓘ synth-pop ⓘ synth-pop ⓘ |
| hasDiscographyItem | The Lexicon of Love ⓘ |
| hasMember | Martin Fry ⓘ |
| hasNotableCharacteristic |
polished production
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synth-driven arrangements ⓘ |
| influentialAlbum | The Lexicon of Love ⓘ |
| instrumentation | synthesizer ⓘ |
| languageOfLyrics | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | ABC ⓘ |
| musicalStyle | polished pop sound ⓘ |
| notableAlbum | The Lexicon of Love ⓘ |
| notableSong |
All of My Heart
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Poison Arrow ⓘ Tears Are Not Enough ⓘ The Look of Love ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Lexicon of Love ⓘ |
| occupation |
musician
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singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| performer | ABC ⓘ |
| recordedInStudio | The Lexicon of Love ⓘ |
| vocalist | Martin Fry ⓘ |
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: ABC Description of subject: ABC is a pioneering English new wave band best known for their polished, synth-driven pop sound and the influential 1982 album "The Lexicon of Love."
Referenced by (37)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: ABC