P-Machinery
E703429
"P-Machinery" is a 1985 synth-pop single by the German band Propaganda, known for its dark, industrial-tinged sound and association with the ZTT Records label.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| P-Machinery canonical | 2 |
| p:Machinery | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7966743 — 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: P-Machinery Context triple: [Propaganda, notableWork, P-Machinery]
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A.
NuMachine
NuMachine was an early 1980s experimental workstation computer project at MIT that pioneered the NuBus expansion bus architecture.
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B.
PMC
PMC is the commonly used abbreviation for Pauli Murray College, a residential college at Yale University named after civil rights activist and legal scholar Pauli Murray.
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C.
PMC
PMC is the widely used abbreviation for PubMed Central, a free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature maintained by the U.S. National Institutes of Health.
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D.
PMC
PMC is the IATA airport code for El Tepual International Airport serving Puerto Montt in southern Chile.
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E.
PMC
PMC is the abbreviation for the Philippine Marine Corps, the naval infantry and amphibious warfare branch of the Armed Forces of the Philippines.
- 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: P-Machinery Target entity description: "P-Machinery" is a 1985 synth-pop single by the German band Propaganda, known for its dark, industrial-tinged sound and association with the ZTT Records label.
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A.
NuMachine
NuMachine was an early 1980s experimental workstation computer project at MIT that pioneered the NuBus expansion bus architecture.
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B.
PMC
PMC is the commonly used abbreviation for Pauli Murray College, a residential college at Yale University named after civil rights activist and legal scholar Pauli Murray.
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C.
PMC
PMC is the widely used abbreviation for PubMed Central, a free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature maintained by the U.S. National Institutes of Health.
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D.
PMC
PMC is the IATA airport code for El Tepual International Airport serving Puerto Montt in southern Chile.
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E.
PMC
PMC is the abbreviation for the Philippine Marine Corps, the naval infantry and amphibious warfare branch of the Armed Forces of the Philippines.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| album | A Secret Wish NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| artist | Propaganda NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedAct | Propaganda ⓘ |
| associatedWith | ZTT Records aesthetic ⓘ |
| chronologyPosition | follow-up to Duel ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Germany ⓘ |
| decade | 1980s ⓘ |
| era | post-punk / new wave era ⓘ |
| format |
12-inch single
ⓘ
7-inch single ⓘ |
| genre |
new wave
ⓘ
synth-pop ⓘ |
| hasBside | Frozen Faces NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCatalogRole | key 1980s ZTT release ⓘ |
| hasInstrumentation |
drum machine
ⓘ
electronic percussion ⓘ synthesizer ⓘ |
| hasMusicVideo | P-Machinery music video ⓘ |
| hasRemix |
P-Machinery (Beta Mix)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
P-Machinery (Extended Version) NERFINISHED ⓘ P-Machinery (Polish) NERFINISHED ⓘ P-Machinery (Single Edit) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isTitleTrackOfSingle | P-Machinery single ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
association with ZTT Records label
ⓘ
use of industrial sound elements ⓘ |
| originalMedium | vinyl record ⓘ |
| originatedIn | West Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | A Secret Wish NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performer | Propaganda NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Stephen Lipson
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Trevor Horn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publisher | ZTT Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordedBy | Propaganda NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel | ZTT Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1985-07-01 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1985 ⓘ |
| sideA | P-Machinery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| style |
dark
ⓘ
industrial-tinged ⓘ |
| tempo | mid-tempo ⓘ |
| vocalist | Claudia Brücken NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writer |
Claudia Brücken
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Michael Mertens NERFINISHED ⓘ Ralf Dörper NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: P-Machinery Description of subject: "P-Machinery" is a 1985 synth-pop single by the German band Propaganda, known for its dark, industrial-tinged sound and association with the ZTT Records label.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
p:Machinery