Ming Tea
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Ming Tea is a fictional 1960s-style rock band fronted by Mike Myers that appears in the Austin Powers film series, including "Austin Powers in Goldmember."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ming Tea canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2159838 — 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: Ming Tea Context triple: [Austin Powers in Goldmember, starring, Ming Tea]
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A.
Keemun black tea
Keemun black tea is a renowned Chinese black tea variety prized for its rich, mellow flavor and aromatic, winey notes.
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B.
Fuze Tea
Fuze Tea is a ready-to-drink iced tea beverage brand owned and marketed globally by The Coca-Cola Company.
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C.
Huangshan Maofeng tea
Huangshan Maofeng tea is a renowned Chinese green tea prized for its delicate floral aroma, sweet mellow taste, and origin in the misty Yellow Mountain region.
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D.
Tea City of India
Tea City of India is a popular nickname for Dibrugarh, a major tea-producing and commercial hub in the Indian state of Assam.
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E.
The Tea
The Tea is an 1880 oil painting by American Impressionist Mary Cassatt that depicts two women in a refined domestic interior, exemplifying her focus on the private lives of women.
- 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: Ming Tea Target entity description: Ming Tea is a fictional 1960s-style rock band fronted by Mike Myers that appears in the Austin Powers film series, including "Austin Powers in Goldmember."
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A.
Keemun black tea
Keemun black tea is a renowned Chinese black tea variety prized for its rich, mellow flavor and aromatic, winey notes.
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B.
Fuze Tea
Fuze Tea is a ready-to-drink iced tea beverage brand owned and marketed globally by The Coca-Cola Company.
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C.
Huangshan Maofeng tea
Huangshan Maofeng tea is a renowned Chinese green tea prized for its delicate floral aroma, sweet mellow taste, and origin in the misty Yellow Mountain region.
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D.
Tea City of India
Tea City of India is a popular nickname for Dibrugarh, a major tea-producing and commercial hub in the Indian state of Assam.
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E.
The Tea
The Tea is an 1880 oil painting by American Impressionist Mary Cassatt that depicts two women in a refined domestic interior, exemplifying her focus on the private lives of women.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional band
ⓘ
fictional musical group ⓘ |
| activePeriod | 1990s ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Austin Powers in Goldmember
ⓘ
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery ⓘ Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Austin Powers character
ⓘ
Matthew Sweet ⓘ Mike Myers ⓘ Susanna Hoffs ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| fictionalUniverse | Austin Powers film series ⓘ |
| frontedBy | Mike Myers ⓘ |
| genre | rock ⓘ |
| hasCostumeStyle | 1960s mod fashion ⓘ |
| hasFictionalBackstory | 1960s mod rock band ⓘ |
| hasFictionalTimeSetting | 1960s ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Matthew Sweet
ⓘ
Mike Myers ⓘ Susanna Hoffs ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | 1960s British rock bands ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| musicUsedFor | Austin Powers theme and interludes ⓘ |
| notableWork | BBC (song) ⓘ |
| performsFictionalPersona | Austin Powers ⓘ |
| performsInUniverse | television show segments within Austin Powers films ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | real-life musicians ⓘ |
| style | 1960s-style rock ⓘ |
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: Ming Tea Description of subject: Ming Tea is a fictional 1960s-style rock band fronted by Mike Myers that appears in the Austin Powers film series, including "Austin Powers in Goldmember."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.