James
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James is a song by the American rock band Billy Joel, featured on his 1976 album "Turnstiles."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| James canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12905937 — 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: James Context triple: [Turnstiles, hasPart, James]
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John
John R. Klauder is an American theoretical physicist known for his contributions to quantum field theory, coherent states, and functional analysis.
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B.
John
John is the given name of John Landy, the Australian middle-distance runner famed for being the second man to break the four-minute mile and later serving as Governor of Victoria.
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C.
John
John is the given name of John Fletcher Hurst, an American Methodist bishop and theologian known for his contributions to religious scholarship in the 19th century.
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D.
John
John "Jack" Twyman was an American Hall of Fame professional basketball player best known for his scoring prowess with the Cincinnati Royals and his advocacy for teammate Maurice Stokes.
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E.
John
John is the given name of John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll, a prominent 19th-century Scottish peer and Liberal politician.
- 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: James Target entity description: James is a song by the American rock band Billy Joel, featured on his 1976 album "Turnstiles."
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A.
James
James is an English rock band formed in Manchester in the early 1980s, best known for their hit singles such as "Sit Down" and "Laid" and their association with the indie label Factory Records.
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B.
James
James is a prominent early Christian figure, traditionally identified as James the brother of Jesus and a leader in the Jerusalem church.
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C.
James
James is a common masculine given name of Hebrew origin meaning "supplanter," widely used in English-speaking countries.
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D.
James
James is a common English surname of Hebrew origin, widely borne by notable figures in sports, politics, and the arts.
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E.
James
James is the middle name of American author Robert James Waller, best known for writing "The Bridges of Madison County."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
musical work
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| album | Turnstiles ⓘ |
| albumArtist | Billy Joel ⓘ |
| albumRecordLabel | Columbia Records ⓘ |
| albumReleaseYear | 1976 ⓘ |
| artist | Billy Joel ⓘ |
| composer | Billy Joel ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| creditedTo | Billy Joel ⓘ |
| format | studio recording ⓘ |
| genre | rock ⓘ |
| hasType | album track ⓘ |
| includedInAlbum | Turnstiles ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Billy Joel ⓘ |
| musicalArtistGenre | rock ⓘ |
| partOf | Turnstiles ⓘ |
| performer | Billy Joel ⓘ |
| performerNationality | American ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1976 ⓘ |
| recordingArtist | Billy Joel ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Columbia Records ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1976 ⓘ |
| title | James ⓘ |
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: James Description of subject: James is a song by the American rock band Billy Joel, featured on his 1976 album "Turnstiles."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.