Dragon (band)
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Dragon is a New Zealand–Australian rock band best known for its 1970s and 1980s hits such as "April Sun in Cuba" and "Are You Old Enough?".
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dragon (band) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3749065 — 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: Dragon (band) Context triple: [David Hirschfelder, memberOf, Dragon (band)]
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A.
Orange Order
The Orange Order is a Protestant fraternal organization originating in Ireland, known for promoting unionism and organizing parades, particularly in Northern Ireland.
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B.
Medeus
Medeus is a character known as one of the children of Jason, sharing in the mythological legacy surrounding the hero’s family.
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C.
Jaska
Jaska is a Finnish diminutive form of the male given name Jaakko, commonly used as a familiar or affectionate nickname.
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D.
The Irons
The Irons is a popular nickname for West Ham United Football Club, a professional football team based in East London that competes in the English football league system.
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E.
Demon Deacons
Demon Deacons is the distinctive nickname and mascot identity for Wake Forest University's athletic teams.
- 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: Dragon (band) Target entity description: Dragon is a New Zealand–Australian rock band best known for its 1970s and 1980s hits such as "April Sun in Cuba" and "Are You Old Enough?".
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A.
Orange Order
The Orange Order is a Protestant fraternal organization originating in Ireland, known for promoting unionism and organizing parades, particularly in Northern Ireland.
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B.
Medeus
Medeus is a character known as one of the children of Jason, sharing in the mythological legacy surrounding the hero’s family.
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C.
Jaska
Jaska is a Finnish diminutive form of the male given name Jaakko, commonly used as a familiar or affectionate nickname.
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D.
The Irons
The Irons is a popular nickname for West Ham United Football Club, a professional football team based in East London that competes in the English football league system.
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E.
Demon Deacons
Demon Deacons is the distinctive nickname and mascot identity for Wake Forest University's athletic teams.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
musical group
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rock band ⓘ |
| activePeriod |
1970s
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1980s ⓘ 1990s ⓘ 2000s ⓘ 2010s ⓘ 2020s ⓘ |
| activePeriodStart | 1972 ⓘ |
| basedIn | Australia ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | New Zealand ⓘ |
| formedInCountry | New Zealand ⓘ |
| formedInPlace | Auckland ⓘ |
| formedInYear | 1972 ⓘ |
| genre |
new wave
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pop rock ⓘ pub rock ⓘ rock ⓘ soft rock ⓘ |
| hasAssociatedAct |
Mondo Rock
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Pseudo Echo ⓘ The Party Boys ⓘ XL Capris ⓘ |
| hasNotableWork |
April Sun in Cuba
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Are You Old Enough? ⓘ Rain ⓘ Still in Love with You ⓘ This Time ⓘ Young Years ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| member |
Alan Mansfield
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Bruce Reid ⓘ Kerry Jacobson ⓘ Marc Hunter ⓘ Mark Williams ⓘ Neil Storey ⓘ Paul Hewson ⓘ Pete Drummond ⓘ Robert Taylor ⓘ Todd Hunter ⓘ |
| notableAlbum |
Body and the Beat
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Dreams of Ordinary Men ⓘ O Zambezi NERFINISHED ⓘ Sunshine ⓘ |
| originallyNamed | Dragon ⓘ |
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: Dragon (band) Description of subject: Dragon is a New Zealand–Australian rock band best known for its 1970s and 1980s hits such as "April Sun in Cuba" and "Are You Old Enough?".
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.