Ted Key
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Ted Key is a British musician best known as the original bassist for the indie pop band The Housemartins.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ted Key canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3960699 — 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: Ted Key Context triple: [The Housemartins, member, Ted Key]
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A.
Bert Keyes
Bert Keyes was an American songwriter, arranger, and producer known for his contributions to soul and R&B music in the mid-20th century.
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B.
Joe Coburn
Joe Coburn was a 19th-century Irish-American bare-knuckle boxer who became one of the leading heavyweight fighters of his era.
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C.
Hank Corwin
Hank Corwin is an acclaimed American film editor known for his impressionistic, nonlinear cutting style on films such as The Tree of Life, The Big Short, and Vice.
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D.
Bill Sackter
Bill Sackter was a developmentally disabled man whose life story of institutionalization, friendship, and late-in-life independence became widely known through the film "Bill" and helped change public perceptions of people with disabilities.
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E.
Jay Keyser
Jay Keyser is an American linguist known for his influential work in generative phonology and syntax, as well as his long career as a professor at MIT.
- 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: Ted Key Target entity description: Ted Key is a British musician best known as the original bassist for the indie pop band The Housemartins.
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A.
Bert Keyes
Bert Keyes was an American songwriter, arranger, and producer known for his contributions to soul and R&B music in the mid-20th century.
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B.
Joe Coburn
Joe Coburn was a 19th-century Irish-American bare-knuckle boxer who became one of the leading heavyweight fighters of his era.
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C.
Hank Corwin
Hank Corwin is an acclaimed American film editor known for his impressionistic, nonlinear cutting style on films such as The Tree of Life, The Big Short, and Vice.
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D.
Bill Sackter
Bill Sackter was a developmentally disabled man whose life story of institutionalization, friendship, and late-in-life independence became widely known through the film "Bill" and helped change public perceptions of people with disabilities.
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E.
Jay Keyser
Jay Keyser is an American linguist known for his influential work in generative phonology and syntax, as well as his long career as a professor at MIT.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (14)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
band
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bassist ⓘ human ⓘ musician ⓘ |
| associatedAct | The Housemartins ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfWork | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| genre |
indie pop
ⓘ
indie rock ⓘ |
| knownFor | being the original bassist for The Housemartins ⓘ |
| memberOf | The Housemartins ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| occupation |
bassist
ⓘ
musician ⓘ |
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: Ted Key Description of subject: Ted Key is a British musician best known as the original bassist for the indie pop band The Housemartins.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.