What Is Love?
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"What Is Love?" is a 1983 synth-pop song by British musician Howard Jones that became one of his signature hits in the UK and internationally.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| What Is Love? canonical | 2 |
| What Is Love (7" Mix) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11031486 — 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: What Is Love? Context triple: [Howard Jones, notableWork, What Is Love?]
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A.
What Is Love?
"What Is Love?" is a 2018 K-pop mini album by South Korean girl group Twice, featuring a bright, catchy title track that explores the curiosity and excitement of first love.
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B.
What Is Love
"What Is Love" is a 1993 Eurodance hit by Haddaway, best known for its infectious chorus and enduring popularity in clubs, films, and internet culture.
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C.
What Is This Thing Called Love?
"What Is This Thing Called Love?" is a popular jazz standard composed by Cole Porter that has been widely recorded and interpreted by vocalists and instrumentalists since its 1929 debut.
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D.
This Love
"This Love" is a 2004 pop-rock hit by Maroon 5, known for its catchy piano-driven melody, soulful vocals, and breakthrough success from their debut album "Songs About Jane."
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E.
Here’s Love
"Here’s Love" is a 1963 Broadway musical by Meredith Willson, adapted from the classic film "Miracle on 34th Street."
- 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: What Is Love? Target entity description: "What Is Love?" is a 1983 synth-pop song by British musician Howard Jones that became one of his signature hits in the UK and internationally.
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A.
What Is Love?
"What Is Love?" is a 2018 K-pop mini album by South Korean girl group Twice, featuring a bright, catchy title track that explores the curiosity and excitement of first love.
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B.
What Is Love
"What Is Love" is a 1993 Eurodance hit by Haddaway, best known for its infectious chorus and enduring popularity in clubs, films, and internet culture.
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C.
What Is This Thing Called Love?
"What Is This Thing Called Love?" is a popular jazz standard composed by Cole Porter that has been widely recorded and interpreted by vocalists and instrumentalists since its 1929 debut.
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D.
This Love
"This Love" is a 2004 pop-rock hit by Maroon 5, known for its catchy piano-driven melody, soulful vocals, and breakthrough success from their debut album "Songs About Jane."
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E.
Here’s Love
"Here’s Love" is a 1963 Broadway musical by Meredith Willson, adapted from the classic film "Miracle on 34th Street."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
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song ⓘ |
| album | Human's Lib NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chartedIn |
Dutch Top 40
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
German Singles Chart NERFINISHED ⓘ Irish Singles Chart NERFINISHED ⓘ Swiss Singles Chart NERFINISHED ⓘ UK Singles Chart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chartPositionUKSinglesChart | 2 ⓘ |
| chronologicallyFollows | New Song (Howard Jones song) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chronologicallyPrecedes | Hide and Seek (Howard Jones song) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | Howard Jones NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| decade | 1980s ⓘ |
| describedAs | one of Howard Jones's signature hits ⓘ |
| featuresInstrument |
drum machine
ⓘ
synthesizer ⓘ |
| format |
12-inch single
ⓘ
7-inch single ⓘ |
| genre |
new wave
ⓘ
synth-pop ⓘ |
| hasBside | It Just Doesn’t Matter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCoverVersion | What Is Love? cover by various artists ⓘ |
| hasExtendedVersion | What Is Love? (Extended Version) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLiveVersion | What Is Love? (Live) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMusicVideo | What Is Love? (Howard Jones song) music video ⓘ |
| includedIn | Howard Jones live setlists ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| length | 3:41 ⓘ |
| lyricist | Howard Jones NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicalArtist | Howard Jones NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicVideoDirector | Brian Grant NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | synth-driven arrangement and philosophical lyrics ⓘ |
| partOf | Human's Lib NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performer | Howard Jones NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Colin Thurston
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Rupert Hine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1983 ⓘ |
| recordedIn | 1983 ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Elektra Records
ⓘ
WEA NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1983 ⓘ |
| signatureSongOf | Howard Jones NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subjectMatter | romantic love and emotional uncertainty ⓘ |
| tempo | mid-tempo ⓘ |
| vocalStyle | melodic male lead vocal ⓘ |
| writer | Howard Jones 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: What Is Love? Description of subject: "What Is Love?" is a 1983 synth-pop song by British musician Howard Jones that became one of his signature hits in the UK and internationally.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
What Is Love (7" Mix)