Through the Barricades
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"Through the Barricades" is a 1986 power ballad by English new wave band Spandau Ballet, known for its romantic narrative set against the backdrop of political conflict.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Through the Barricades canonical | 8 |
| Through the Barricades (album) | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4696067 — 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: Through the Barricades Context triple: [Spandau Ballet, notableWork, Through the Barricades]
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A.
Day of the Barricades
The Day of the Barricades was a 1588 uprising in Paris during the French Wars of Religion, when Catholic League supporters rebelled against King Henry III, dramatically weakening royal authority.
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B.
The Crowds
The Crowds is an English title for the 39th chapter of the Qur’an, which emphasizes sincere worship of God alone and contrasts the fates of believers and disbelievers.
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C.
Street Cry
Street Cry was a champion Thoroughbred racehorse and influential sire known for winning the Dubai World Cup and producing multiple major winners worldwide.
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D.
Shower the People
"Shower the People" is a soft rock song by American singer-songwriter James Taylor, known for its warm harmonies and comforting, optimistic lyrics about expressing love.
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E.
Barrikadnaya
Barrikadnaya is a Moscow Metro station located near the city center, known for its deep-level construction and transfer connection to Krasnopresnenskaya station.
- 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: Through the Barricades Target entity description: "Through the Barricades" is a 1986 power ballad by English new wave band Spandau Ballet, known for its romantic narrative set against the backdrop of political conflict.
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A.
Day of the Barricades
The Day of the Barricades was a 1588 uprising in Paris during the French Wars of Religion, when Catholic League supporters rebelled against King Henry III, dramatically weakening royal authority.
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B.
The Crowds
The Crowds is an English title for the 39th chapter of the Qur’an, which emphasizes sincere worship of God alone and contrasts the fates of believers and disbelievers.
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C.
Street Cry
Street Cry was a champion Thoroughbred racehorse and influential sire known for winning the Dubai World Cup and producing multiple major winners worldwide.
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D.
Shower the People
"Shower the People" is a soft rock song by American singer-songwriter James Taylor, known for its warm harmonies and comforting, optimistic lyrics about expressing love.
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E.
Barrikadnaya
Barrikadnaya is a Moscow Metro station located near the city center, known for its deep-level construction and transfer connection to Krasnopresnenskaya station.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
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: Through the Barricades Description of subject: "Through the Barricades" is a 1986 power ballad by English new wave band Spandau Ballet, known for its romantic narrative set against the backdrop of political conflict.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Through the Barricades
linked to: Through the Barricades