Vanity 6
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Vanity 6 was an early-1980s female vocal trio created and produced by Prince, known for their provocative image and the hit song "Nasty Girl."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Vanity 6 canonical | 51 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2010926 — 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: Vanity 6 Context triple: [Prince, associatedAct, Vanity 6]
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A.
Vanishing
"Vanishing" is a soulful piano-driven ballad by Mariah Carey, celebrated for its intricate vocal harmonies and showcasing her early vocal prowess on her debut album.
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B.
Vane
Vane is an English surname historically associated with several notable aristocratic and political families in Britain.
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C.
The Valet
The Valet is a French comedy film about a parking valet who becomes entangled in a billionaire’s scheme to hide his affair by pretending to be the lover of a famous model.
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D.
Blame the Vain
Blame the Vain is a country music album by American singer-songwriter Dwight Yoakam, noted for its return to a more traditional honky-tonk sound and for being his first self-produced studio record.
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E.
Ventilago
Ventilago is a genus of flowering plants, often woody climbers, belonging to the buckthorn family Rhamnaceae and found mainly in tropical and subtropical regions.
- 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: Vanity 6 Target entity description: Vanity 6 was an early-1980s female vocal trio created and produced by Prince, known for their provocative image and the hit song "Nasty Girl."
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A.
Vanishing
"Vanishing" is a soulful piano-driven ballad by Mariah Carey, celebrated for its intricate vocal harmonies and showcasing her early vocal prowess on her debut album.
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B.
Vane
Vane is an English surname historically associated with several notable aristocratic and political families in Britain.
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C.
The Valet
The Valet is a French comedy film about a parking valet who becomes entangled in a billionaire’s scheme to hide his affair by pretending to be the lover of a famous model.
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D.
Blame the Vain
Blame the Vain is a country music album by American singer-songwriter Dwight Yoakam, noted for its return to a more traditional honky-tonk sound and for being his first self-produced studio record.
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E.
Ventilago
Ventilago is a genus of flowering plants, often woody climbers, belonging to the buckthorn family Rhamnaceae and found mainly in tropical and subtropical regions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Vanity 6 Description of subject: Vanity 6 was an early-1980s female vocal trio created and produced by Prince, known for their provocative image and the hit song "Nasty Girl."
Referenced by (51)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
minneapolis sound
subject linked to:
Prince – vocals, instruments, production
subject linked to:
The Hookers (early concept name)
subject linked to:
The Hookers (early concept name)
subject linked to:
The Hookers (early concept name)
subject linked to:
The Hookers (early concept name)