"Contact"
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"Contact" is a 1985 pop and R&B album by The Pointer Sisters that continued their commercial success with a polished, dance-oriented sound.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| "Contact" canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10526716 — 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: "Contact" Context triple: [The Pointer Sisters, notableAlbum, "Contact"]
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A.
film "Contact"
The film "Contact" is a 1997 science fiction drama, based on Carl Sagan’s novel, that follows a scientist’s discovery of an extraterrestrial signal and the ensuing political, scientific, and spiritual conflicts over humanity’s first contact with alien intelligence.
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B.
Contact (novel)
Contact is a 1985 science fiction novel by Carl Sagan that explores humanity’s first contact with an extraterrestrial intelligence through the experiences of radio astronomer Ellie Arroway.
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C.
First Contact
"First Contact" is a classic 1945 science fiction novelette by Murray Leinster that helped popularize the concept and term of humanity’s initial encounter with an alien civilization.
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D.
Cosmic Call
Cosmic Call was a series of interstellar radio messages sent from Earth to nearby stars as part of early efforts in active SETI (Messaging to Extraterrestrial Intelligence).
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E.
Contact (1997 film)
Contact is a 1997 science fiction drama film, based on Carl Sagan’s novel, that follows a scientist’s first-contact encounter with extraterrestrial intelligence and the ensuing clash between science, faith, and politics.
- 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: "Contact" Target entity description: "Contact" is a 1985 pop and R&B album by The Pointer Sisters that continued their commercial success with a polished, dance-oriented sound.
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A.
film "Contact"
The film "Contact" is a 1997 science fiction drama, based on Carl Sagan’s novel, that follows a scientist’s discovery of an extraterrestrial signal and the ensuing political, scientific, and spiritual conflicts over humanity’s first contact with alien intelligence.
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B.
Contact (novel)
Contact is a 1985 science fiction novel by Carl Sagan that explores humanity’s first contact with an extraterrestrial intelligence through the experiences of radio astronomer Ellie Arroway.
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C.
First Contact
"First Contact" is a classic 1945 science fiction novelette by Murray Leinster that helped popularize the concept and term of humanity’s initial encounter with an alien civilization.
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D.
Cosmic Call
Cosmic Call was a series of interstellar radio messages sent from Earth to nearby stars as part of early efforts in active SETI (Messaging to Extraterrestrial Intelligence).
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E.
Contact (1997 film)
Contact is a 1997 science fiction drama film, based on Carl Sagan’s novel, that follows a scientist’s first-contact encounter with extraterrestrial intelligence and the ensuing clash between science, faith, and politics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
music album
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studio album ⓘ |
| artist | The Pointer Sisters NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| followedBy | Hot Together NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
R&B
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dance-pop ⓘ pop ⓘ synth-pop ⓘ |
| hasStyle |
dance-oriented sound
ⓘ
polished production ⓘ |
| hasTrack |
Back In My Arms
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bodies and Souls NERFINISHED ⓘ Burn Down the Night NERFINISHED ⓘ Contact ⓘ Dare Me NERFINISHED ⓘ Freedom NERFINISHED ⓘ Hey You NERFINISHED ⓘ Hold On NERFINISHED ⓘ Pound, Pound, Pound NERFINISHED ⓘ Twist My Arm NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainArtistMember |
Anita Pointer
NERFINISHED
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June Pointer NERFINISHED ⓘ Ruth Pointer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableSingle |
Dare Me
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hey You NERFINISHED ⓘ Twist My Arm NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performer | The Pointer Sisters NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| previousWork | Break Out NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Richard Perry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordedIn |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| recordLabel | RCA Records ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1985 ⓘ |
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: "Contact" Description of subject: "Contact" is a 1985 pop and R&B album by The Pointer Sisters that continued their commercial success with a polished, dance-oriented sound.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.