Midge Ure
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Midge Ure is a Scottish musician, singer-songwriter, and producer best known as the frontman of Ultravox and co-writer of the charity single "Do They Know It's Christmas?".
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6378983 — 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: Midge Ure Context triple: [Thin Lizzy, hasPart, Midge Ure]
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A.
Richard Ure
Richard Ure is an architect best known for designing Canberra’s landmark Telstra Tower.
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B.
John Parish
John Parish is an English musician, songwriter, and producer best known for his long-running creative collaboration with PJ Harvey and his work on numerous alternative rock and indie projects.
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C.
Martyn Atkins
Martyn Atkins is a British graphic designer and art director known for creating album covers and visual identities for prominent rock and alternative musicians.
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D.
Walter Hussey
Walter Hussey was a British Anglican clergyman and noted patron of the arts, renowned for commissioning major works from leading 20th-century composers and artists.
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E.
Kevin Godley
Kevin Godley is a British musician and acclaimed music video director, best known as a founding member of 10cc and for his innovative, visually inventive work in the medium.
- 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: Midge Ure Target entity description: Midge Ure is a Scottish musician, singer-songwriter, and producer best known as the frontman of Ultravox and co-writer of the charity single "Do They Know It's Christmas?".
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A.
Richard Ure
Richard Ure is an architect best known for designing Canberra’s landmark Telstra Tower.
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B.
John Parish
John Parish is an English musician, songwriter, and producer best known for his long-running creative collaboration with PJ Harvey and his work on numerous alternative rock and indie projects.
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C.
Martyn Atkins
Martyn Atkins is a British graphic designer and art director known for creating album covers and visual identities for prominent rock and alternative musicians.
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D.
Walter Hussey
Walter Hussey was a British Anglican clergyman and noted patron of the arts, renowned for commissioning major works from leading 20th-century composers and artists.
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E.
Kevin Godley
Kevin Godley is a British musician and acclaimed music video director, best known as a founding member of 10cc and for his innovative, visually inventive work in the medium.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1970 ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Band Aid
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Live Aid NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Ivor Novello Award
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Officer of the Order of the British Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1953-10-10 ⓘ |
| birthName | James Ure NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire, Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coFoundedWith | Bob Geldof NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| coWriterWith | Bob Geldof NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coWrote | Do They Know It's Christmas? NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| founded | Band Aid (charity supergroup) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
new wave
ⓘ
rock ⓘ synth-pop ⓘ |
| hasSoloAlbum |
Answers to Nothing
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Pure NERFINISHED ⓘ The Gift NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| honorificSuffix | OBE NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| instrument |
guitar
ⓘ
keyboards ⓘ vocals ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Rich Kids
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Slik NERFINISHED ⓘ Thin Lizzy NERFINISHED ⓘ Ultravox NERFINISHED ⓘ Visage NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement | Band Aid charity movement NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Midge Ure NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | Scottish ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Do They Know It's Christmas?
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
If I Was NERFINISHED ⓘ Vienna (song, as member of Ultravox) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
musician
ⓘ
record producer ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| organized | Live Aid (1985 charity concert) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | England ⓘ |
| role | frontman of Ultravox ⓘ |
| spouse |
Annabel Giles
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sheridan Forbes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Midge Ure Description of subject: Midge Ure is a Scottish musician, singer-songwriter, and producer best known as the frontman of Ultravox and co-writer of the charity single "Do They Know It's Christmas?".
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Midge Ure (James Ure, born James McGregor, not Farmer)
subject linked to:
Midge Ure (James Ure, born James McGregor, not Farmer)
linked to: Midge Ure
subject linked to:
Live Aid concert
subject linked to:
Band Aid – Do They Know It’s Christmas?
subject linked to:
Band Aid – Do They Know It’s Christmas?
subject linked to:
Band Aid – Do They Know It’s Christmas?
subject linked to:
Band Aid – Do They Know It’s Christmas?