Howard Jones
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Howard Jones is a British singer, songwriter, and keyboardist best known for his synth-pop hits of the 1980s such as "What Is Love?" and "Things Can Only Get Better."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Howard Jones canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2382914 — 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: Howard Jones Context triple: [Jones, notableBearer, Howard Jones]
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A.
Simon Jones
Simon Jones is a British actor best known for playing Arthur Dent in the original radio and television adaptations of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."
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B.
Christopher Cross
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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C.
Paul Young
Paul Young is an American politician serving as the mayor of Memphis, Tennessee.
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D.
Art Jones
Art Jones is a film editor best known for his work on the horror movie "30 Days of Night."
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E.
J. C. Squire
J. C. Squire was a British poet, critic, and editor best known for leading the Georgian poetry movement and shaping early 20th-century English literary taste.
- 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: Howard Jones Target entity description: Howard Jones is a British singer, songwriter, and keyboardist best known for his synth-pop hits of the 1980s such as "What Is Love?" and "Things Can Only Get Better."
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A.
Simon Jones
Simon Jones is a British actor best known for playing Arthur Dent in the original radio and television adaptations of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."
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B.
Christopher Cross
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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C.
Paul Young
Paul Young is an American politician serving as the mayor of Memphis, Tennessee.
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D.
Art Jones
Art Jones is a film editor best known for his work on the horror movie "30 Days of Night."
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E.
J. C. Squire
J. C. Squire was a British poet, critic, and editor best known for leading the Georgian poetry movement and shaping early 20th-century English literary taste.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Howard Jones Description of subject: Howard Jones is a British singer, songwriter, and keyboardist best known for his synth-pop hits of the 1980s such as "What Is Love?" and "Things Can Only Get Better."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.