Deacon Blue
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Deacon Blue is a Scottish pop-rock band formed in the 1980s, known for their melodic songwriting and chart success in the UK.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Deacon Blue canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6394079 — 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: Deacon Blue Context triple: ["I'll Never Fall in Love Again", notableRecordingBy, Deacon Blue]
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A.
The Proclaimers
The Proclaimers are a Scottish musical duo of twin brothers Charlie and Craig Reid, best known for their rousing folk-rock and pop songs such as "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)."
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B.
Stereophonics
Stereophonics is a Welsh rock band known for their gritty guitar sound and hit songs like "Dakota" and "Have a Nice Day."
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C.
Godley & Creme
Godley & Creme were an English rock duo and innovative music video directors, best known for their work with 10cc and for pioneering visually inventive videos in the 1980s.
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D.
Simple Minds
Simple Minds is a Scottish rock band best known for their 1980s hits like "Don't You (Forget About Me)" and their influential role in the new wave and post-punk scenes.
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E.
Stiff Little Fingers
Stiff Little Fingers are a pioneering Northern Irish punk rock band formed in the late 1970s, known for their politically charged lyrics and influential role in the early punk movement.
- 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: Deacon Blue Target entity description: Deacon Blue is a Scottish pop-rock band formed in the 1980s, known for their melodic songwriting and chart success in the UK.
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A.
The Proclaimers
The Proclaimers are a Scottish musical duo of twin brothers Charlie and Craig Reid, best known for their rousing folk-rock and pop songs such as "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)."
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B.
Stereophonics
Stereophonics is a Welsh rock band known for their gritty guitar sound and hit songs like "Dakota" and "Have a Nice Day."
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C.
Godley & Creme
Godley & Creme were an English rock duo and innovative music video directors, best known for their work with 10cc and for pioneering visually inventive videos in the 1980s.
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D.
Simple Minds
Simple Minds is a Scottish rock band best known for their 1980s hits like "Don't You (Forget About Me)" and their influential role in the new wave and post-punk scenes.
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E.
Stiff Little Fingers
Stiff Little Fingers are a pioneering Northern Irish punk rock band formed in the late 1970s, known for their politically charged lyrics and influential role in the early punk movement.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | band ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1985 ⓘ |
| album |
A New House
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Believers NERFINISHED ⓘ City of Love NERFINISHED ⓘ Fellow Hoodlums NERFINISHED ⓘ Homesick NERFINISHED ⓘ Raintown NERFINISHED ⓘ The Hipsters NERFINISHED ⓘ Whatever You Say, Say Nothing NERFINISHED ⓘ When the World Knows Your Name NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
McIntoshRoss
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ricky Ross (solo) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chartSuccess |
UK Albums Chart
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
UK Singles Chart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Scotland ⓘ |
| debutAlbum | Raintown NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formedIn | 1985 ⓘ |
| formerMember |
Graeme Kelling
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jim Prime NERFINISHED ⓘ Mick Slaven NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
alternative rock
ⓘ
blue-eyed soul ⓘ pop rock ⓘ rock ⓘ sophisti-pop ⓘ |
| hiatus | 1994 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| member |
Dougie Vipond
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ewen Vernal NERFINISHED ⓘ Gregor Philp NERFINISHED ⓘ James Prime NERFINISHED ⓘ Lorraine McIntosh NERFINISHED ⓘ Ricky Ross NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | the Steely Dan song "Deacon Blues" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableSong |
Dignity
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Fergus Sings the Blues NERFINISHED ⓘ Loaded NERFINISHED ⓘ Real Gone Kid NERFINISHED ⓘ Twist and Shout NERFINISHED ⓘ Wages Day NERFINISHED ⓘ Your Town NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Raintown
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
When the World Knows Your Name NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| origin | Glasgow, Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Columbia Records
ⓘ
Sony Music Entertainment ⓘ
surface form:
Sony Music
|
| reformedIn | 1999 ⓘ |
| website | https://deaconblue.com/ ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Deacon Blue Description of subject: Deacon Blue is a Scottish pop-rock band formed in the 1980s, known for their melodic songwriting and chart success in the UK.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
"I'll Never Fall in Love Again"