Video killed the radio star
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"Video Killed the Radio Star" is a 1979 synth-pop song by The Buggles, best known for its nostalgic reflection on the impact of music videos and for being the first music video ever aired on MTV.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| "Video killed the radio star" | 1 |
| Video killed the radio star canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1628375 — 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: Video killed the radio star Context triple: [Video Killed the Radio Star, hasChorusLine, Video killed the radio star]
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A.
Rumour Has It
"Rumour Has It" is a soulful, retro-inspired pop song by Adele, co-written and produced by Ryan Tedder, known for its driving rhythm and powerful vocals.
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B.
Kill the DJ
"Kill the DJ" is a punk rock song by Green Day from their 2012 album ¡Uno!, noted for its dance-punk style and politically tinged lyrics.
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C.
Stardust
"Stardust" is a classic popular song, widely regarded as a jazz and American Songbook standard, famously interpreted by Louis Armstrong and many other artists.
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D.
Stardust
Stardust is a fantasy novel by Neil Gaiman that blends fairy-tale romance and adventure in a magical realm bordering Victorian England.
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E.
Didn’t Mean to Turn You On
"Didn’t Mean to Turn You On" is a synth-driven R&B track best known from Cherrelle’s 1984 album *Fragile* and later popularized by Robert Palmer’s hit cover version.
- 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: Video killed the radio star Target entity description: "Video Killed the Radio Star" is a 1979 synth-pop song by The Buggles, best known for its nostalgic reflection on the impact of music videos and for being the first music video ever aired on MTV.
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A.
Rumour Has It
"Rumour Has It" is a soulful, retro-inspired pop song by Adele, co-written and produced by Ryan Tedder, known for its driving rhythm and powerful vocals.
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B.
Kill the DJ
"Kill the DJ" is a punk rock song by Green Day from their 2012 album ¡Uno!, noted for its dance-punk style and politically tinged lyrics.
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C.
Stardust
"Stardust" is a classic popular song, widely regarded as a jazz and American Songbook standard, famously interpreted by Louis Armstrong and many other artists.
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D.
Stardust
Stardust is a fantasy novel by Neil Gaiman that blends fairy-tale romance and adventure in a magical realm bordering Victorian England.
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E.
Didn’t Mean to Turn You On
"Didn’t Mean to Turn You On" is a synth-driven R&B track best known from Cherrelle’s 1984 album *Fragile* and later popularized by Robert Palmer’s hit cover version.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Video killed the radio star Description of subject: "Video Killed the Radio Star" is a 1979 synth-pop song by The Buggles, best known for its nostalgic reflection on the impact of music videos and for being the first music video ever aired on MTV.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Video killed the radio star
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subject surface form:
Video Killed the Radio Star
this entity surface form:
"Video killed the radio star"