Christopher Cross
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Christopher Cross is an American singer-songwriter and musician best known for his soft rock hits of the late 1970s and early 1980s, including "Sailing" and "Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Christopher Cross canonical | 44 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T991841 — 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: Christopher Cross Context triple: [Grammy Award for Song of the Year, hasAwardedTo, Christopher Cross]
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A.
Tom Bell
Tom Bell was an American football official best known for serving as the referee in Super Bowl III.
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B.
James DeBarge
James DeBarge is an American R&B singer best known as a member of the family group DeBarge and for his brief, high-profile marriage to Janet Jackson in the 1980s.
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C.
Kim Carnes
Kim Carnes is an American singer-songwriter best known for her raspy voice and the 1981 hit single "Bette Davis Eyes."
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D.
Dion
Dion is an ancient Macedonian city and archaeological site at the foot of Mount Olympus, renowned as a major religious center dedicated to Zeus and other Olympian gods.
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E.
Tricky Stewart
Tricky Stewart is an American record producer and songwriter known for crafting numerous chart-topping R&B and pop hits for major artists.
- 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: Christopher Cross Target entity description: Christopher Cross is an American singer-songwriter and musician best known for his soft rock hits of the late 1970s and early 1980s, including "Sailing" and "Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)."
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A.
Tom Bell
Tom Bell was an American football official best known for serving as the referee in Super Bowl III.
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B.
James DeBarge
James DeBarge is an American R&B singer best known as a member of the family group DeBarge and for his brief, high-profile marriage to Janet Jackson in the 1980s.
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C.
Kim Carnes
Kim Carnes is an American singer-songwriter best known for her raspy voice and the 1981 hit single "Bette Davis Eyes."
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D.
Dion
Dion is an ancient Macedonian city and archaeological site at the foot of Mount Olympus, renowned as a major religious center dedicated to Zeus and other Olympian gods.
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E.
Tricky Stewart
Tricky Stewart is an American record producer and songwriter known for crafting numerous chart-topping R&B and pop hits for major artists.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Christopher Cross Description of subject: Christopher Cross is an American singer-songwriter and musician best known for his soft rock hits of the late 1970s and early 1980s, including "Sailing" and "Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)."
Referenced by (44)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.