This Charming Man
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"This Charming Man" is a 1983 jangly guitar-driven indie rock single by English band The Smiths, widely regarded as one of their signature songs and a classic of alternative music.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| This Charming Man canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8569287 — 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: This Charming Man Context triple: [The Smiths, notableSong, This Charming Man]
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A.
The Best a Man Can Get
"The Best a Man Can Get" is a famous Gillette advertising slogan associated with its razor and men's grooming products campaigns worldwide.
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B.
A Wonderful Guy
"A Wonderful Guy" is a popular show tune from the 1949 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical *South Pacific*, known for its upbeat expression of romantic joy.
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C.
The Ladies Man
The Ladies Man is a 1961 American comedy film directed by and starring Jerry Lewis, known for its elaborate dollhouse-style set and Lewis’s trademark slapstick humor.
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D.
The Man That Got Away
"The Man That Got Away" is a torch song from the 1954 film *A Star Is Born*, widely regarded as one of Judy Garland’s most iconic and emotionally powerful performances.
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E.
A Little Romance
A Little Romance is a 1979 romantic comedy film about two young teenagers who fall in love in Paris and run away to Venice, featuring Diane Lane in her film debut.
- 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: This Charming Man Target entity description: "This Charming Man" is a 1983 jangly guitar-driven indie rock single by English band The Smiths, widely regarded as one of their signature songs and a classic of alternative music.
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A.
The Best a Man Can Get
"The Best a Man Can Get" is a famous Gillette advertising slogan associated with its razor and men's grooming products campaigns worldwide.
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B.
A Wonderful Guy
"A Wonderful Guy" is a popular show tune from the 1949 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical *South Pacific*, known for its upbeat expression of romantic joy.
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C.
The Ladies Man
The Ladies Man is a 1961 American comedy film directed by and starring Jerry Lewis, known for its elaborate dollhouse-style set and Lewis’s trademark slapstick humor.
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D.
The Man That Got Away
"The Man That Got Away" is a torch song from the 1954 film *A Star Is Born*, widely regarded as one of Judy Garland’s most iconic and emotionally powerful performances.
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E.
A Little Romance
A Little Romance is a 1979 romantic comedy film about two young teenagers who fall in love in Paris and run away to Venice, featuring Diane Lane in her film debut.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| artist | The Smiths NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chartPositionUKSingles | 25 ⓘ |
| composer | Johnny Marr NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| criticalReception | widely acclaimed ⓘ |
| describedAs | classic of alternative music ⓘ |
| featuresInstrument | electric guitar ⓘ |
| firstReleasedInTerritory | United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followedBySingle | What Difference Does It Make? NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| format |
12-inch single
ⓘ
7-inch single ⓘ |
| genre |
alternative rock
ⓘ
indie rock ⓘ jangle pop ⓘ |
| guitarStyle | jangly ⓘ |
| hasBassist | Andy Rourke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasBside |
Accept Yourself
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jeane NERFINISHED ⓘ Wonderful Woman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDrummer | Mike Joyce NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGuitarist | Johnny Marr NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasKey | G major ⓘ |
| hasMusicVideo | This Charming Man (music video) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableRiffBy | Johnny Marr NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTempo | up-tempo ⓘ |
| hasVocalist | Morrissey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| includedOnRelease |
Hatful of Hollow
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Louder Than Bombs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isSignatureSongOf | The Smiths NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| labelCatalogNumber | RT 136 ⓘ |
| length | 2:41 ⓘ |
| listedIn |
NME greatest songs lists
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Rolling Stone greatest songs lists NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| lyricalStyle | witty ⓘ |
| lyricist | Morrissey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement | 1980s alternative rock ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | The Smiths (album) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performer | The Smiths NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precededBySingle | Hand in Glove NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | John Porter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordingDate | 1983 ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Rough Trade Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1983-10-31 ⓘ |
| reReleaseChartPositionUKSingles | 8 ⓘ |
| subjectMatter | romantic attraction ⓘ |
| writer |
Johnny Marr
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Morrissey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: This Charming Man Description of subject: "This Charming Man" is a 1983 jangly guitar-driven indie rock single by English band The Smiths, widely regarded as one of their signature songs and a classic of alternative music.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.