Michael Sembello
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Michael Sembello is an American singer, songwriter, and musician best known for his 1983 hit single "Maniac" from the film Flashdance.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Michael Sembello canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6269656 — 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: Michael Sembello Context triple: [Count Me Out, producer, Michael Sembello]
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A.
Jerry Seeman
Jerry Seeman was a prominent NFL official who served as a referee in multiple Super Bowls and later became the league’s Director of Officiating.
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B.
David Michaels
David Michaels is a television producer and director best known for his work on sports and entertainment broadcasts and as the brother of famed sportscaster Al Michaels.
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C.
Daryl Sabara
Daryl Sabara is an American actor best known for playing Juni Cortez in the Spy Kids film series.
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D.
Andrew Miano
Andrew Miano is an American film producer known for his work on independent and critically acclaimed movies, often collaborating with director Tom Ford and others.
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E.
Paul Giovanni
Paul Giovanni was an American playwright, actor, and composer best known for creating the distinctive folk-influenced score and songs for the 1973 British horror film "The Wicker Man."
- 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: Michael Sembello Target entity description: Michael Sembello is an American singer, songwriter, and musician best known for his 1983 hit single "Maniac" from the film Flashdance.
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A.
Jerry Seeman
Jerry Seeman was a prominent NFL official who served as a referee in multiple Super Bowls and later became the league’s Director of Officiating.
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B.
David Michaels
David Michaels is a television producer and director best known for his work on sports and entertainment broadcasts and as the brother of famed sportscaster Al Michaels.
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C.
Daryl Sabara
Daryl Sabara is an American actor best known for playing Juni Cortez in the Spy Kids film series.
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D.
Andrew Miano
Andrew Miano is an American film producer known for his work on independent and critically acclaimed movies, often collaborating with director Tom Ford and others.
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E.
Paul Giovanni
Paul Giovanni was an American playwright, actor, and composer best known for creating the distinctive folk-influenced score and songs for the 1973 British horror film "The Wicker Man."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film soundtrack
ⓘ
human ⓘ musician ⓘ song ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activeIn |
20th century
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21st century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Sembello ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | music ⓘ |
| genre |
R&B
ⓘ
pop music ⓘ rock music ⓘ |
| givenName | Michael ⓘ |
| hasRole |
composer
ⓘ
producer ⓘ recording artist ⓘ |
| includesSong | Maniac ⓘ |
| instrument |
guitar
ⓘ
keyboards ⓘ vocals ⓘ |
| knownFor | 1983 hit single "Maniac" ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Michael Sembello ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Flashdance (soundtrack contribution)
ⓘ
linked to:
Flashdance... What a Feeling
Maniac ⓘ |
| occupation |
musician
ⓘ
singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| partOf |
Flashdance (film soundtrack)
ⓘ
Flashdance (soundtrack) ⓘ |
| performer | Michael Sembello ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1983 ⓘ |
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: Michael Sembello Description of subject: Michael Sembello is an American singer, songwriter, and musician best known for his 1983 hit single "Maniac" from the film Flashdance.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.