Roland Orzabal
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Roland Orzabal is an English musician, songwriter, and co-founder of the band Tears for Fears, known for hits like "Shout" and "Everybody Wants to Rule the World."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Roland Orzabal canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5427417 — 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: Roland Orzabal Context triple: [Roland, notableBearer, Roland Orzabal]
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A.
Eric Blore
Eric Blore was an English character actor best known for his comic portrayals of butlers and valets in 1930s and 1940s Hollywood films.
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B.
Walter Hussey
Walter Hussey was a British Anglican clergyman and noted patron of the arts, renowned for commissioning major works from leading 20th-century composers and artists.
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C.
Dean Wareham
Dean Wareham is an American musician and songwriter best known as the frontman of the indie rock bands Galaxie 500 and Luna.
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D.
Blake Schwarzenbach
Blake Schwarzenbach is an American musician best known as the vocalist and guitarist for the influential punk band Jawbreaker and later projects like Jets to Brazil.
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E.
Eric Valentine
Eric Valentine is an American record producer and engineer known for his work with rock bands such as Queens of the Stone Age, Smash Mouth, and Third Eye Blind.
- 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: Roland Orzabal Target entity description: Roland Orzabal is an English musician, songwriter, and co-founder of the band Tears for Fears, known for hits like "Shout" and "Everybody Wants to Rule the World."
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A.
Eric Blore
Eric Blore was an English character actor best known for his comic portrayals of butlers and valets in 1930s and 1940s Hollywood films.
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B.
Walter Hussey
Walter Hussey was a British Anglican clergyman and noted patron of the arts, renowned for commissioning major works from leading 20th-century composers and artists.
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C.
Dean Wareham
Dean Wareham is an American musician and songwriter best known as the frontman of the indie rock bands Galaxie 500 and Luna.
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D.
Blake Schwarzenbach
Blake Schwarzenbach is an American musician best known as the vocalist and guitarist for the influential punk band Jawbreaker and later projects like Jets to Brazil.
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E.
Eric Valentine
Eric Valentine is an American record producer and engineer known for his work with rock bands such as Queens of the Stone Age, Smash Mouth, and Third Eye Blind.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
guitarist
ⓘ
human ⓘ musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1970s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Graduate
ⓘ
Tears for Fears NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Roland Jaime Orzabal de la Quintana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coFounderOf | Tears for Fears NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1961-08-22 ⓘ |
| familyName | Orzabal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
alternative rock
ⓘ
new wave ⓘ pop rock ⓘ synth-pop ⓘ |
| givenName | Roland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRole |
lead vocalist of Tears for Fears
ⓘ
primary songwriter of Tears for Fears ⓘ |
| instrument |
guitar
ⓘ
keyboards ⓘ vocals ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Tears for Fears NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Roland Orzabal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | English NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAlbum |
Elemental
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Raoul and the Kings of Spain NERFINISHED ⓘ Songs from the Big Chair NERFINISHED ⓘ The Hurting NERFINISHED ⓘ The Seeds of Love NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableSongwritingCredit |
Everybody Wants to Rule the World
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mad World NERFINISHED ⓘ Shout NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Everybody Wants to Rule the World
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Head Over Heels NERFINISHED ⓘ Mad World NERFINISHED ⓘ Shout NERFINISHED ⓘ Sowing the Seeds of Love NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
guitarist
ⓘ
musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Portsmouth, England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| soloAlbum | Tomcats Screaming Outside NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Roland Orzabal Description of subject: Roland Orzabal is an English musician, songwriter, and co-founder of the band Tears for Fears, known for hits like "Shout" and "Everybody Wants to Rule the World."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.