Glittering Prize
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"Glittering Prize" is a popular 1982 synth-pop single by Scottish rock band Simple Minds, known for its melodic hooks and polished production.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Glittering Prize canonical | 5 |
| Glittering Prize 81/92 | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7081862 — 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: Glittering Prize Context triple: [Simple Minds, notableWork, Glittering Prize]
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A.
Carbuncle Award
The Carbuncle Award is a satirical UK architecture “prize” given to towns or buildings deemed especially ugly or poorly designed.
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B.
Golden Fleece Award
The Golden Fleece Award was a satirical prize created by U.S. Senator William Proxmire to publicly highlight and criticize what he considered wasteful government spending.
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C.
Kythera Prize
The Kythera Prize is an award associated with the recognition of significant contributions in the field of music and composition, notably received by avant-garde composer and architect Iannis Xenakis.
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D.
Francqui Prize
The Francqui Prize is a prestigious Belgian scientific award granted to outstanding researchers for exceptional contributions in their fields.
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E.
Silver Boot
The Silver Boot is a football (soccer) award typically given to the tournament’s second-highest goal scorer, ranking just below the Golden Boot.
- 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: Glittering Prize Target entity description: "Glittering Prize" is a popular 1982 synth-pop single by Scottish rock band Simple Minds, known for its melodic hooks and polished production.
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A.
Carbuncle Award
The Carbuncle Award is a satirical UK architecture “prize” given to towns or buildings deemed especially ugly or poorly designed.
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B.
Golden Fleece Award
The Golden Fleece Award was a satirical prize created by U.S. Senator William Proxmire to publicly highlight and criticize what he considered wasteful government spending.
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C.
Kythera Prize
The Kythera Prize is an award associated with the recognition of significant contributions in the field of music and composition, notably received by avant-garde composer and architect Iannis Xenakis.
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D.
Francqui Prize
The Francqui Prize is a prestigious Belgian scientific award granted to outstanding researchers for exceptional contributions in their fields.
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E.
Silver Boot
The Silver Boot is a football (soccer) award typically given to the tournament’s second-highest goal scorer, ranking just below the Golden Boot.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| artist | Simple Minds ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Scotland ⓘ |
| genre |
new wave
ⓘ
synth-pop ⓘ |
| hasArtistNationality | Scottish ⓘ |
| hasBand | Simple Minds ⓘ |
| hasEra | early 1980s pop ⓘ |
| hasInstrumentation |
bass guitar
ⓘ
drums ⓘ electric guitar ⓘ synthesizer ⓘ |
| hasMusicalStyle |
rock-influenced pop
ⓘ
synth-driven pop ⓘ |
| hasPopularity | popular single ⓘ |
| hasProductionCharacteristic | polished studio production ⓘ |
| hasVocalStyle | melodic vocals ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| musicalArtistType | rock band ⓘ |
| notableFor |
melodic hooks
ⓘ
polished production ⓘ |
| partOf | Simple Minds discography ⓘ |
| performer | Simple Minds ⓘ |
| performerCountry | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| recordedBy | Simple Minds ⓘ |
| releaseDecade | 1980s ⓘ |
| releaseType | commercial single ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1982 ⓘ |
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: Glittering Prize Description of subject: "Glittering Prize" is a popular 1982 synth-pop single by Scottish rock band Simple Minds, known for its melodic hooks and polished production.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Glittering Prize
linked to: Glittering Prize