The Age of Plastic
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The Age of Plastic is the 1980 debut studio album by British new wave duo The Buggles, noted for its synth-pop sound and themes of technological change.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Age of Plastic canonical | 12 |
| Living in the Plastic Age | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1628351 — 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: The Age of Plastic Context triple: [Video Killed the Radio Star, partOfAlbum, The Age of Plastic]
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A.
Eco-Age
Eco-Age is a sustainability-focused consultancy and communications agency known for helping brands improve and showcase their environmental and ethical practices.
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B.
The Endangered Earth
The Endangered Earth is the collective representation of the planet’s environmental crisis, recognized by Time as a symbolic “Person of the Year” to highlight global ecological threats and the urgency of conservation.
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C.
The True Cost
The True Cost is a documentary film that exposes the environmental and human rights impacts of the global fast fashion industry.
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D.
Queen of Carbon
Queen of Carbon is the nickname of physicist Mildred Dresselhaus, renowned for her pioneering research on the electronic properties of carbon materials such as graphite, fullerenes, and carbon nanotubes.
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E.
The Static Age
The Static Age is a song by American punk rock band Green Day from their rock opera album "21st Century Breakdown."
- 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: The Age of Plastic Target entity description: The Age of Plastic is the 1980 debut studio album by British new wave duo The Buggles, noted for its synth-pop sound and themes of technological change.
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A.
Eco-Age
Eco-Age is a sustainability-focused consultancy and communications agency known for helping brands improve and showcase their environmental and ethical practices.
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B.
The Endangered Earth
The Endangered Earth is the collective representation of the planet’s environmental crisis, recognized by Time as a symbolic “Person of the Year” to highlight global ecological threats and the urgency of conservation.
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C.
The True Cost
The True Cost is a documentary film that exposes the environmental and human rights impacts of the global fast fashion industry.
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D.
Queen of Carbon
Queen of Carbon is the nickname of physicist Mildred Dresselhaus, renowned for her pioneering research on the electronic properties of carbon materials such as graphite, fullerenes, and carbon nanotubes.
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E.
The Static Age
The Static Age is a song by American punk rock band Green Day from their rock opera album "21st Century Breakdown."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
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: The Age of Plastic Description of subject: The Age of Plastic is the 1980 debut studio album by British new wave duo The Buggles, noted for its synth-pop sound and themes of technological change.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Living in the Plastic Age
subject surface form:
Video Killed the Radio Star
subject surface form:
Video Killed the Radio Star
this entity surface form:
Living in the Plastic Age