Alive and Kicking
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"Alive and Kicking" is a 1985 pop-rock song by Scottish band Simple Minds, known for its anthemic sound and chart success following their hit "Don't You (Forget About Me)."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alive and Kicking canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7081856 — 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: Alive and Kicking Context triple: [Simple Minds, notableWork, Alive and Kicking]
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A.
Live & Kicking
Live & Kicking was a popular British Saturday morning children's television show that aired on the BBC in the 1990s, known for its live format, celebrity guests, and interactive features.
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B.
A Live One
A Live One is a 1995 double live album by the American jam band Phish, celebrated for capturing their improvisational concert performances.
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C.
Live Alive
Live Alive is a blues-rock live album by Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble, capturing powerful performances from their mid-1980s concerts.
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D.
Not Dead Enough
Not Dead Enough is a crime thriller novel by British author Peter James, featuring Detective Superintendent Roy Grace investigating a complex murder case.
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E.
Almost Live!
Almost Live! was a Seattle-based sketch comedy television show known for its local satire and for launching the careers of several prominent comedians.
- 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: Alive and Kicking Target entity description: "Alive and Kicking" is a 1985 pop-rock song by Scottish band Simple Minds, known for its anthemic sound and chart success following their hit "Don't You (Forget About Me)."
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A.
Live & Kicking
Live & Kicking was a popular British Saturday morning children's television show that aired on the BBC in the 1990s, known for its live format, celebrity guests, and interactive features.
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B.
A Live One
A Live One is a 1995 double live album by the American jam band Phish, celebrated for capturing their improvisational concert performances.
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C.
Live Alive
Live Alive is a blues-rock live album by Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble, capturing powerful performances from their mid-1980s concerts.
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D.
Not Dead Enough
Not Dead Enough is a crime thriller novel by British author Peter James, featuring Detective Superintendent Roy Grace investigating a complex murder case.
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E.
Almost Live!
Almost Live! was a Seattle-based sketch comedy television show known for its local satire and for launching the careers of several prominent comedians.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| album | Once Upon a Time ⓘ |
| artist | Simple Minds ⓘ |
| chartPositionUKSinglesChart | top 10 ⓘ |
| chartPositionUSBillboardHot100 | top 10 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
Scotland
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| follows |
Don’t You (Forget About Me)
ⓘ
linked to:
Don't You (Forget About Me)
|
| genre |
pop rock
ⓘ
rock ⓘ |
| hasMusicVideo | Alive and Kicking music video ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
anthemic sound
ⓘ
commercial chart success ⓘ |
| partOf | Once Upon a Time ⓘ |
| performer |
Charlie Burchill
ⓘ
Jim Kerr ⓘ Mel Gaynor ⓘ Mick MacNeil ⓘ Simple Minds ⓘ |
| producer |
Bob Clearmountain
ⓘ
Jimmy Iovine ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1985 ⓘ |
| recordingDate | 1985 ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
A&M Records
ⓘ
Virgin Records ⓘ |
| writer |
Charlie Burchill
ⓘ
Jim Kerr ⓘ Mick MacNeil ⓘ |
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: Alive and Kicking Description of subject: "Alive and Kicking" is a 1985 pop-rock song by Scottish band Simple Minds, known for its anthemic sound and chart success following their hit "Don't You (Forget About Me)."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.