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Icon is a British progressive rock band formed in the 1980s, best known for featuring keyboardist Geoff Downes and vocalist John Wetton.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Icon canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9906061 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Icon Context triple: [Geoff Downes, memberOf, Icon]
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Icon is a multi-launch steel roller coaster at Blackpool Pleasure Beach in England, known for its smooth ride, inversions, and high-speed twists.
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Icon
Icon is a mid-range trim level of the Toyota Auris that typically offers a balanced package of comfort, technology, and convenience features.
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Icon is a superhero comic book series from Milestone Media, centered on an alien hero who becomes a symbol of Black empowerment and social commentary in an urban American setting.
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Icon is a compilation album by percussionist and singer Sheila E. that showcases her most popular and influential songs from across her career.
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Icon Star
Icon Star is the popular fan-given title of Telugu film actor Allu Arjun, highlighting his stylish screen presence and massive following.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Icon Target entity description: Icon is a British progressive rock band formed in the 1980s, best known for featuring keyboardist Geoff Downes and vocalist John Wetton.
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A.
Icon
Icon is a multi-launch steel roller coaster at Blackpool Pleasure Beach in England, known for its smooth ride, inversions, and high-speed twists.
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B.
Icon
Icon is a superhero comic book series from Milestone Media, centered on an alien hero who becomes a symbol of Black empowerment and social commentary in an urban American setting.
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C.
Icon
Icon is a mid-range trim level of the Toyota Auris that typically offers a balanced package of comfort, technology, and convenience features.
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D.
Icon
Icon is a compilation album by percussionist and singer Sheila E. that showcases her most popular and influential songs from across her career.
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E.
Icon Star
Icon Star is the popular fan-given title of Telugu film actor Allu Arjun, highlighting his stylish screen presence and massive following.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (18)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | band ⓘ |
| activePeriodStart | 1980s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Asia
ⓘ
King Crimson ⓘ Yes ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| formedInDecade | 1980s ⓘ |
| genre |
progressive rock
ⓘ
rock ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Geoff Downes
ⓘ
John Wetton ⓘ |
| hasNotableMember |
Geoff Downes
ⓘ
John Wetton ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryGenre | progressive rock ⓘ |
| hasRole |
Geoff Downes: keyboards
ⓘ
John Wetton: vocals ⓘ |
| languageOfLyrics | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | featuring Geoff Downes and John Wetton ⓘ |
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: Icon Description of subject: Icon is a British progressive rock band formed in the 1980s, best known for featuring keyboardist Geoff Downes and vocalist John Wetton.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.