Paul Young
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Paul Young is an English pop and soul singer best known for his 1980s hits such as "Everytime You Go Away" and "Come Back and Stay."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Paul Young canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5222047 — 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: Paul Young Context triple: [Young, hasNotableBearer, Paul Young]
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A.
Paul Young
Paul Young is an American politician serving as the mayor of Memphis, Tennessee.
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B.
Murray Head
Murray Head is an English actor and singer best known for his roles in the film "Sunday Bloody Sunday" and the musical "Chess," including the hit song "One Night in Bangkok."
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C.
Brian Slade
Brian Slade is a fictional glam rock icon in the film "Velvet Goldmine," loosely inspired by David Bowie and central to the movie’s exploration of fame, identity, and sexuality in the 1970s music scene.
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D.
Lee Boardman
Lee Boardman is a British actor known for his roles in television dramas such as Rome and Coronation Street.
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E.
Paul Heaton
Paul Heaton is an English singer-songwriter best known as the frontman of The Housemartins and later The Beautiful South.
- 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: Paul Young Target entity description: Paul Young is an English pop and soul singer best known for his 1980s hits such as "Everytime You Go Away" and "Come Back and Stay."
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A.
Paul Young
Paul Young is an American politician serving as the mayor of Memphis, Tennessee.
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B.
Murray Head
Murray Head is an English actor and singer best known for his roles in the film "Sunday Bloody Sunday" and the musical "Chess," including the hit song "One Night in Bangkok."
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C.
Brian Slade
Brian Slade is a fictional glam rock icon in the film "Velvet Goldmine," loosely inspired by David Bowie and central to the movie’s exploration of fame, identity, and sexuality in the 1970s music scene.
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D.
Lee Boardman
Lee Boardman is a British actor known for his roles in television dramas such as Rome and Coronation Street.
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E.
Paul Heaton
Paul Heaton is an English singer-songwriter best known as the frontman of The Housemartins and later The Beautiful South.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English singer
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human ⓘ pop singer ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1970s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Los Pacaminos
NERFINISHED
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Q-Tips NERFINISHED ⓘ Streetband NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Brit Award for British Male Solo Artist NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1956-01-17 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Luton, Bedfordshire, England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| eyeColor | blue ⓘ |
| familyName | Young NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
blue-eyed soul
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pop ⓘ soul ⓘ |
| givenName | Paul ⓘ |
| hairColor | brown ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Grady Young
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Layla Young NERFINISHED ⓘ Levi Young NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.paul-young.com/ ⓘ |
| instrument | vocals ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| name | Paul Young NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | English ⓘ |
| notableAlbum |
Between Two Fires
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
No Parlez NERFINISHED ⓘ The Secret of Association NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableCoverSong |
Everytime You Go Away (cover of Daryl Hall song)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Love of the Common People (cover of Nicky Thomas song) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Come Back and Stay
NERFINISHED
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Everytime You Go Away NERFINISHED ⓘ Love of the Common People NERFINISHED ⓘ Senza una donna (Without a Woman) NERFINISHED ⓘ Wherever I Lay My Hat (That's My Home) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
singer
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songwriter ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Live Aid NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
CBS Records
NERFINISHED
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Columbia Records ⓘ |
| residence | England ⓘ |
| spouse | Stacey Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| voiceType | tenor ⓘ |
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: Paul Young Description of subject: Paul Young is an English pop and soul singer best known for his 1980s hits such as "Everytime You Go Away" and "Come Back and Stay."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
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