Idle
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Idle is a British comedian, actor, writer, and musician best known as a member of the legendary comedy group Monty Python.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Idle canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T750981 — 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: Idle Context triple: [Eric Idle, familyName, Idle]
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A.
Relax
"Relax" is a 1983 synth-pop and dance single by British band Frankie Goes to Hollywood, notorious for its sexually charged lyrics, controversial music video, and eventual status as an iconic 1980s hit.
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B.
Carefree
"Carefree" is a 1938 musical comedy film starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, known for its blend of dance, romance, and screwball humor.
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C.
Alright
"Alright" is a song featured on John Legend's debut studio album "Get Lifted."
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D.
Insomniac
Insomniac is a 1995 punk rock album by Green Day, known for its heavier, darker sound and fast-paced, aggressive songs.
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E.
Laz people
Laz people are an indigenous ethnic group of the South Caucasus and Black Sea coastal region, closely related to Georgians and known for their distinct Laz language and maritime culture.
- 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: Idle Target entity description: Idle is a British comedian, actor, writer, and musician best known as a member of the legendary comedy group Monty Python.
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A.
Relax
"Relax" is a 1983 synth-pop and dance single by British band Frankie Goes to Hollywood, notorious for its sexually charged lyrics, controversial music video, and eventual status as an iconic 1980s hit.
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B.
Carefree
"Carefree" is a 1938 musical comedy film starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, known for its blend of dance, romance, and screwball humor.
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C.
Alright
"Alright" is a song featured on John Legend's debut studio album "Get Lifted."
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D.
Insomniac
Insomniac is a 1995 punk rock album by Green Day, known for its heavier, darker sound and fast-paced, aggressive songs.
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E.
Laz people
Laz people are an indigenous ethnic group of the South Caucasus and Black Sea coastal region, closely related to Georgians and known for their distinct Laz language and maritime culture.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Idle Description of subject: Idle is a British comedian, actor, writer, and musician best known as a member of the legendary comedy group Monty Python.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Eric Idle