Visage
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Visage was a British synth-pop band best known for their influential role in the New Romantic movement and their hit single "Fade to Grey."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Visage canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4696270 — 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: Visage Context triple: [New Romantic movement, notableFigure, Visage]
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A.
The Human League
The Human League is a pioneering British synth-pop band formed in the late 1970s, best known for their influential electronic sound and hits like "Don't You Want Me."
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B.
Siouxsie and the Banshees
Siouxsie and the Banshees were an influential English post-punk and gothic rock band, led by singer Siouxsie Sioux, known for their dark, innovative sound and lasting impact on alternative music.
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C.
Bauhaus
Bauhaus was a pioneering German art and design school and movement that fused fine arts with crafts and modern technology, profoundly shaping modernist architecture, graphic design, and industrial design worldwide.
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D.
Spandau Ballet
Spandau Ballet is a British new wave band best known for their 1980s hits like "True" and "Gold."
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E.
The Style Council
The Style Council was an English sophisti-pop and soul-influenced band formed in the early 1980s by Paul Weller after The Jam, known for its jazzy, politically conscious pop songs.
- 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: Visage Target entity description: Visage was a British synth-pop band best known for their influential role in the New Romantic movement and their hit single "Fade to Grey."
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A.
The Human League
The Human League is a pioneering British synth-pop band formed in the late 1970s, best known for their influential electronic sound and hits like "Don't You Want Me."
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B.
Siouxsie and the Banshees
Siouxsie and the Banshees were an influential English post-punk and gothic rock band, led by singer Siouxsie Sioux, known for their dark, innovative sound and lasting impact on alternative music.
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C.
Bauhaus
Bauhaus was a pioneering German art and design school and movement that fused fine arts with crafts and modern technology, profoundly shaping modernist architecture, graphic design, and industrial design worldwide.
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D.
Spandau Ballet
Spandau Ballet is a British new wave band best known for their 1980s hits like "True" and "Gold."
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E.
The Style Council
The Style Council was an English sophisti-pop and soul-influenced band formed in the early 1980s by Paul Weller after The Jam, known for its jazzy, politically conscious pop songs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British band
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band ⓘ musical group ⓘ synth-pop band ⓘ |
| activeFrom | 1978 ⓘ |
| activeUntil | 1985 ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Blitz club
NERFINISHED
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Magazine ⓘ Rich Kids NERFINISHED ⓘ The Skids NERFINISHED ⓘ Ultravox NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chartSuccess | Fade to Grey reached top 10 in several European countries NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| debutAlbum | Visage (album) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| debutAlbumReleaseYear | 1980 ⓘ |
| formedAs | studio project ⓘ |
| formedYear | 1978 ⓘ |
| genre |
New Romantic
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new wave ⓘ synth-pop ⓘ |
| hitSingle |
Fade to Grey
NERFINISHED
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Mind of a Toy NERFINISHED ⓘ Night Train NERFINISHED ⓘ The Damned Don’t Cry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfLyrics | English ⓘ |
| member |
Barry Adamson
NERFINISHED
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Billy Currie NERFINISHED ⓘ Dave Formula NERFINISHED ⓘ John McGeoch NERFINISHED ⓘ Lauren Duvall NERFINISHED ⓘ Logan Sky NERFINISHED ⓘ Midge Ure NERFINISHED ⓘ Robin Simon NERFINISHED ⓘ Rusty Egan NERFINISHED ⓘ Steve Barnacle NERFINISHED ⓘ Steve Strange NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement | New Romantic movement NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Beat Boy
NERFINISHED
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Fade to Grey NERFINISHED ⓘ Hearts and Knives NERFINISHED ⓘ Orchestral ⓘ The Anvil NERFINISHED ⓘ Visage (album) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfOrigin | London NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Polydor Records
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Universal Music NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reformedIn |
2004
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2013 ⓘ |
| styleCharacteristic |
androgynous fashion
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dramatic visual image ⓘ synthesizer-based sound ⓘ |
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: Visage Description of subject: Visage was a British synth-pop band best known for their influential role in the New Romantic movement and their hit single "Fade to Grey."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Midge Ure