X-Ray Spex
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X-Ray Spex was a pioneering British punk band fronted by vocalist Poly Styrene, known for their saxophone-driven sound and socially charged anthems like "Oh Bondage Up Yours!"
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| X-Ray Spex canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6650274 — 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: X-Ray Spex Context triple: [So It Goes (TV programme), featuredPerformer, X-Ray Spex]
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A.
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.
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B.
Buzzcocks
Buzzcocks are an English punk rock band known for their fast, melodic songs and pioneering role in the late 1970s UK punk and pop-punk scenes.
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C.
Faster Pussycat
Faster Pussycat is an American glam metal band formed in the mid-1980s, best known for their sleazy hard rock sound and hits like "House of Pain" and "Bathroom Wall."
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D.
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.
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E.
The Spiders
The Spiders is the traditional nickname of Queen’s Park F.C., one of Scotland’s oldest football clubs known for its distinctive black-and-white hooped kits.
- 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: X-Ray Spex Target entity description: X-Ray Spex was a pioneering British punk band fronted by vocalist Poly Styrene, known for their saxophone-driven sound and socially charged anthems like "Oh Bondage Up Yours!"
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A.
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.
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B.
Buzzcocks
Buzzcocks are an English punk rock band known for their fast, melodic songs and pioneering role in the late 1970s UK punk and pop-punk scenes.
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C.
Faster Pussycat
Faster Pussycat is an American glam metal band formed in the mid-1980s, best known for their sleazy hard rock sound and hits like "House of Pain" and "Bathroom Wall."
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D.
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.
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E.
The Spiders
The Spiders is the traditional nickname of Queen’s Park F.C., one of Scotland’s oldest football clubs known for its distinctive black-and-white hooped kits.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British musical group
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punk rock band ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1979 ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1976 ⓘ |
| album |
Conscious Consumer
NERFINISHED
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Germfree Adolescents NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| debutAlbum | Germfree Adolescents NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| debutSingle | Oh Bondage Up Yours! NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dissolvedIn | 1979 ⓘ |
| formedIn | 1976 ⓘ |
| frontedBy | Poly Styrene NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
new wave
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post-punk ⓘ punk rock ⓘ |
| hasMember |
BP Hurding
NERFINISHED
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Jak Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ Lora Logic NERFINISHED ⓘ Paul Dean NERFINISHED ⓘ Poly Styrene NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableCharacteristic |
anti-consumerist themes
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feminist themes ⓘ saxophone-driven sound ⓘ socially conscious lyrics ⓘ |
| influenced |
Bikini Kill
NERFINISHED
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Sleater-Kinney NERFINISHED ⓘ riot grrrl movement NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| instrumentationIncludes | saxophone ⓘ |
| lyricalTheme |
adolescence
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consumerism ⓘ identity ⓘ media culture ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Art-I-Ficial
NERFINISHED
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Genetic Engineering ⓘ Germfree Adolescents NERFINISHED ⓘ Highly Inflammable NERFINISHED ⓘ I Am a Cliché NERFINISHED ⓘ Identity NERFINISHED ⓘ Oh Bondage Up Yours! NERFINISHED ⓘ Plastic Bag NERFINISHED ⓘ The Day the World Turned Day-Glo NERFINISHED ⓘ Warrior in Woolworths NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfOrigin | London NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
EMI
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Virgin Records ⓘ |
| reformedIn |
1990
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2008 ⓘ |
| reunionYears |
1990s
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2000s ⓘ |
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: X-Ray Spex Description of subject: X-Ray Spex was a pioneering British punk band fronted by vocalist Poly Styrene, known for their saxophone-driven sound and socially charged anthems like "Oh Bondage Up Yours!"
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.