Virus Alert
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"Virus Alert" is a comedic song by "Weird Al" Yankovic that parodies computer security warnings and digital-age paranoia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Virus Alert canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T22128870 — 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: Virus Alert Context triple: [Straight Outta Lynwood, hasPart, Virus Alert]
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A.
The Virus
"The Virus" is a 1982 political thriller novel by British author Stanley Johnson that imagines a deadly global pandemic and the governmental response to it.
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B.
Wild Card virus
The Wild Card virus is a fictional alien-engineered pathogen in the "Wild Cards" shared-universe series that randomly kills most victims, grants bizarre superpowers to some survivors, and grotesquely mutates others.
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C.
Virus (app)
Virus is a mobile app game in the Biophilia suite that lets users explore musical and biological concepts through interactive, evolving sound patterns inspired by cellular behavior.
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D.
Melissa virus
The Melissa virus was a notorious mass-mailing macro virus from 1999 that spread via infected Microsoft Word documents and caused widespread disruption to email systems worldwide.
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E.
Ravn virus
Ravn virus is a highly pathogenic filovirus closely related to Marburg virus that causes severe viral hemorrhagic fever in humans and nonhuman primates.
- 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: Virus Alert Target entity description: "Virus Alert" is a comedic song by "Weird Al" Yankovic that parodies computer security warnings and digital-age paranoia.
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A.
The Virus
"The Virus" is a 1982 political thriller novel by British author Stanley Johnson that imagines a deadly global pandemic and the governmental response to it.
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B.
Wild Card virus
The Wild Card virus is a fictional alien-engineered pathogen in the "Wild Cards" shared-universe series that randomly kills most victims, grants bizarre superpowers to some survivors, and grotesquely mutates others.
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C.
Virus (app)
Virus is a mobile app game in the Biophilia suite that lets users explore musical and biological concepts through interactive, evolving sound patterns inspired by cellular behavior.
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D.
Melissa virus
The Melissa virus was a notorious mass-mailing macro virus from 1999 that spread via infected Microsoft Word documents and caused widespread disruption to email systems worldwide.
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E.
Ravn virus
Ravn virus is a highly pathogenic filovirus closely related to Marburg virus that causes severe viral hemorrhagic fever in humans and nonhuman primates.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.