The Police
E206420
The Police were a British rock band formed in the late 1970s, known for their fusion of punk, reggae, and new wave and for hits like "Roxanne," "Every Breath You Take," and "Message in a Bottle."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Police canonical | 18 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1853281 — 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: The Police Context triple: [A&M Records, hasArtist, The Police]
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A.
Spandau Ballet
Spandau Ballet is a British new wave band best known for their 1980s hits like "True" and "Gold."
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B.
The Buggles
The Buggles were a British new wave band best known for their pioneering 1979 synth-pop hit "Video Killed the Radio Star."
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C.
The Jam
The Jam were a seminal late-1970s and early-1980s English mod revival and punk-influenced rock band fronted by Paul Weller, known for their sharp social commentary and hits like "Going Underground" and "Town Called Malice."
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D.
Smiths
Smiths is the plural form of the common English surname "Smith," often used to refer collectively to members of a family with that name.
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E.
The Human League
The Human League is a pioneering British synth-pop band formed in the late 1970s, best known for their influential electronic sound and hits like "Don't You Want Me."
- 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: The Police Target entity description: The Police were a British rock band formed in the late 1970s, known for their fusion of punk, reggae, and new wave and for hits like "Roxanne," "Every Breath You Take," and "Message in a Bottle."
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A.
Spandau Ballet
Spandau Ballet is a British new wave band best known for their 1980s hits like "True" and "Gold."
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B.
The Buggles
The Buggles were a British new wave band best known for their pioneering 1979 synth-pop hit "Video Killed the Radio Star."
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C.
The Jam
The Jam were a seminal late-1970s and early-1980s English mod revival and punk-influenced rock band fronted by Paul Weller, known for their sharp social commentary and hits like "Going Underground" and "Town Called Malice."
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D.
Smiths
Smiths is the plural form of the common English surname "Smith," often used to refer collectively to members of a family with that name.
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E.
The Human League
The Human League is a pioneering British synth-pop band formed in the late 1970s, best known for their influential electronic sound and hits like "Don't You Want Me."
- 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: The Police Description of subject: The Police were a British rock band formed in the late 1970s, known for their fusion of punk, reggae, and new wave and for hits like "Roxanne," "Every Breath You Take," and "Message in a Bottle."
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Every Breath You Take
subject surface form:
Every Breath You Take
subject surface form:
Every Breath You Take