Our House
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"Our House" is a 1982 hit single by British ska/pop band Madness, known for its catchy melody and nostalgic lyrics about family life.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Our House canonical | 5 |
| Welcome to: Our House | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8122664 — 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: Our House Context triple: [Madness, notableWork, Our House]
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A.
Our House
"Our House" is a classic folk-rock song by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, celebrated for its warm, domestic imagery and rich vocal harmonies.
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B.
Our House
Our House is an American family drama television series from the 1980s starring Wilford Brimley as the gruff but caring patriarch of a multigenerational household.
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C.
Our House
Our House is a satirical play by Theresa Rebeck that critiques the intersection of reality television, corporate media, and American culture.
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D.
About the House
"About the House" is a 1965 poetry collection by W. H. Auden that reflects on domestic life, memory, and the passage of time through the organizing metaphor of a house.
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E.
My House
"My House" is a 1972 poetry collection by Nikki Giovanni that blends personal reflection, Black cultural identity, and political insight in her distinctive, conversational style.
- 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: Our House Target entity description: "Our House" is a 1982 hit single by British ska/pop band Madness, known for its catchy melody and nostalgic lyrics about family life.
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A.
Our House
"Our House" is a classic folk-rock song by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, celebrated for its warm, domestic imagery and rich vocal harmonies.
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B.
Our House
Our House is an American family drama television series from the 1980s starring Wilford Brimley as the gruff but caring patriarch of a multigenerational household.
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C.
Our House
Our House is a satirical play by Theresa Rebeck that critiques the intersection of reality television, corporate media, and American culture.
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D.
About the House
"About the House" is a 1965 poetry collection by W. H. Auden that reflects on domestic life, memory, and the passage of time through the organizing metaphor of a house.
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E.
My House
"My House" is a 1972 poetry collection by Nikki Giovanni that blends personal reflection, Black cultural identity, and political insight in her distinctive, conversational style.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| artist | Madness NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chartPositionAustralianSinglesChart | 15 ⓘ |
| chartPositionCanadianSinglesChart | 1 ⓘ |
| chartPositionNewZealandSinglesChart | 49 ⓘ |
| chartPositionSwedishSinglesChart | 1 ⓘ |
| chartPositionUKSinglesChart | 5 ⓘ |
| chartPositionUSBillboardHot100 | 7 ⓘ |
| chartPositionUSBillboardMainstreamRock | 9 ⓘ |
| composer |
Cathal Smyth
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Chris Foreman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| describes | everyday working-class family life ⓘ |
| genre |
pop
ⓘ
ska ⓘ |
| hasBPM | around 130 ⓘ |
| hasCatchyMelody | true ⓘ |
| hasCulturalImpact |
recognized as a classic 1980s pop song
ⓘ
widely used in television and advertising ⓘ |
| hasLyricsTheme |
domestic life
ⓘ
family life ⓘ nostalgia ⓘ |
| hasMusicVideo | Our House (Madness music video) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableChorus | true ⓘ |
| hasRefrain | "Our house, in the middle of our street" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSongStructure | verse-chorus ⓘ |
| isSignatureSongOf | Madness NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist |
Cathal Smyth
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Chris Foreman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicVideoDirector | Diane Jackson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nominatedFor | Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfAlbum | The Rise & Fall NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performer | Madness NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Stiff Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1982 ⓘ |
| usesInstrumentation |
brass
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drums ⓘ guitars ⓘ keyboards ⓘ |
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: Our House Description of subject: "Our House" is a 1982 hit single by British ska/pop band Madness, known for its catchy melody and nostalgic lyrics about family life.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Welcome to: Our House
this entity surface form:
Welcome to: Our House