Apollonia 6
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Apollonia 6 was an all-female funk-pop group created and produced by Prince in the 1980s, best known for their appearance in the film "Purple Rain" and the hit song "Sex Shooter."
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Apollonia 6 canonical | 30 |
| Apollonia 6 (band) | 3 |
| Apollonia 6 (fictional group in Purple Rain) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2010927 — 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: Apollonia 6 Context triple: [Prince, associatedAct, Apollonia 6]
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A.
Aposticha
Aposticha are a series of hymns with psalm verses chanted near the end of Orthodox Christian Vespers and other services, often highlighting the theme of the feast or liturgical day.
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B.
The Other Ones
The Other Ones was a post-Grateful Dead rock band formed by surviving members of the Grateful Dead to continue performing the group’s music and related material.
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C.
Polygyros
Polygyros is a town in northern Greece that serves as the capital of the Chalkidiki regional unit in Central Macedonia.
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D.
The Orators
The Orators is an early, experimental long poem in prose and verse by W. H. Auden that explores themes of rhetoric, authority, and modern anxiety.
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Aphrodite's Child
Aphrodite's Child was a Greek progressive and psychedelic rock band from the late 1960s and early 1970s, best known for its concept album "666" and for launching the careers of Vangelis and Demis Roussos.
- 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: Apollonia 6 Target entity description: Apollonia 6 was an all-female funk-pop group created and produced by Prince in the 1980s, best known for their appearance in the film "Purple Rain" and the hit song "Sex Shooter."
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A.
Aposticha
Aposticha are a series of hymns with psalm verses chanted near the end of Orthodox Christian Vespers and other services, often highlighting the theme of the feast or liturgical day.
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B.
The Other Ones
The Other Ones was a post-Grateful Dead rock band formed by surviving members of the Grateful Dead to continue performing the group’s music and related material.
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C.
Polygyros
Polygyros is a town in northern Greece that serves as the capital of the Chalkidiki regional unit in Central Macedonia.
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D.
The Orators
The Orators is an early, experimental long poem in prose and verse by W. H. Auden that explores themes of rhetoric, authority, and modern anxiety.
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E.
Aphrodite's Child
Aphrodite's Child was a Greek progressive and psychedelic rock band from the late 1960s and early 1970s, best known for its concept album "666" and for launching the careers of Vangelis and Demis Roussos.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: Apollonia 6 Description of subject: Apollonia 6 was an all-female funk-pop group created and produced by Prince in the 1980s, best known for their appearance in the film "Purple Rain" and the hit song "Sex Shooter."
Referenced by (34)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
minneapolis sound
subject linked to:
The Bangles - Manic Monday
linked to: Apollonia 6
subject linked to:
Prince – vocals, instruments, production
linked to: Apollonia 6
linked to: Apollonia 6
linked to: Apollonia 6