Owen Paul
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Owen Paul is a Scottish singer and record producer best known for his 1986 hit single "My Favourite Waste of Time."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Owen Paul canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7081854 — 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: Owen Paul Context triple: [Simple Minds, hasMember, Owen Paul]
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A.
Tom Corey
Tom Corey is a refined, idealistic young Bostonian from an old-money family in William Dean Howells’s novel "The Rise of Silas Lapham," whose romantic and social entanglements highlight the tensions between class, morality, and ambition.
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B.
Owen Jones
Owen Jones was a prominent 19th-century British architect and design theorist best known for his influential work "The Grammar of Ornament" and his role in shaping Victorian decorative arts.
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C.
Alex Boraine
Alex Boraine was a South African politician, anti-apartheid activist, and co-founder and deputy chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, known for his leading role in the country’s transition to democracy.
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D.
Alexander Hitchens
Alexander Hitchens is the son of the late British-American author and polemicist Christopher Hitchens.
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E.
Thomas Carrier
Thomas Carrier was a 17th-century New England colonist, reputedly of great age and possibly Welsh origin, known primarily as the husband of Martha Carrier, who was executed during the Salem witch trials.
- 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: Owen Paul Target entity description: Owen Paul is a Scottish singer and record producer best known for his 1986 hit single "My Favourite Waste of Time."
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A.
Tom Corey
Tom Corey is a refined, idealistic young Bostonian from an old-money family in William Dean Howells’s novel "The Rise of Silas Lapham," whose romantic and social entanglements highlight the tensions between class, morality, and ambition.
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B.
Owen Jones
Owen Jones was a prominent 19th-century British architect and design theorist best known for his influential work "The Grammar of Ornament" and his role in shaping Victorian decorative arts.
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C.
Alex Boraine
Alex Boraine was a South African politician, anti-apartheid activist, and co-founder and deputy chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, known for his leading role in the country’s transition to democracy.
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D.
Alexander Hitchens
Alexander Hitchens is the son of the late British-American author and polemicist Christopher Hitchens.
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E.
Thomas Carrier
Thomas Carrier was a 17th-century New England colonist, reputedly of great age and possibly Welsh origin, known primarily as the husband of Martha Carrier, who was executed during the Salem witch trials.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ song ⓘ |
| activeIn | 1980s music scene ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
United Kingdom pop charts
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linked to:
UK Singles Chart
|
| countryOfCitizenship |
Scotland
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| genre |
new wave music
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pop music ⓘ |
| hasHitSingle | My Favourite Waste of Time ⓘ |
| hasRole |
lead vocalist
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record producer ⓘ |
| isBestKnownFor | My Favourite Waste of Time ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Owen Paul ⓘ |
| nationality | Scottish ⓘ |
| notableFor | 1986 hit single "My Favourite Waste of Time" ⓘ |
| notableWork | My Favourite Waste of Time ⓘ |
| occupation |
record producer
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singer ⓘ |
| performer | Owen Paul ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Glasgow ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1986 ⓘ |
| workPeriod |
20th century
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21st century ⓘ |
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: Owen Paul Description of subject: Owen Paul is a Scottish singer and record producer best known for his 1986 hit single "My Favourite Waste of Time."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.