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 as the first music video ever broadcast on MTV and as a symbol of the cultural shift from radio to music television.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Video Killed the Radio Star canonical | 16 |
| Video Killed the Radio Star (music video) | 2 |
| Video Killed the Radio Star was the first music video broadcast on MTV | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T269081 — 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: [Trevor Horn, notableWork, Video Killed the Radio Star]
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A.
Strawberry Fields
Strawberry Fields is a tranquil memorial in New York City's Central Park dedicated to John Lennon, featuring the iconic "Imagine" mosaic and landscaped gardens.
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B.
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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C.
On My Own
"On My Own" is a memoir by Eleanor Roosevelt in which she reflects on her life and public service following the death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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D.
Get Away
"Get Away" is a 1993 R&B single by American singer Bobby Brown, known for its new jack swing style and energetic production.
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E.
Heartbreak Hill
Heartbreak Hill is a famously steep and mentally challenging late-race climb on the Boston Marathon course that often proves decisive in runners’ performances.
- 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 as the first music video ever broadcast on MTV and as a symbol of the cultural shift from radio to music television.
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A.
Strawberry Fields
Strawberry Fields is a tranquil memorial in New York City's Central Park dedicated to John Lennon, featuring the iconic "Imagine" mosaic and landscaped gardens.
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B.
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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C.
On My Own
"On My Own" is a memoir by Eleanor Roosevelt in which she reflects on her life and public service following the death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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D.
Get Away
"Get Away" is a 1993 R&B single by American singer Bobby Brown, known for its new jack swing style and energetic production.
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E.
Heartbreak Hill
Heartbreak Hill is a famously steep and mentally challenging late-race climb on the Boston Marathon course that often proves decisive in runners’ performances.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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 as the first music video ever broadcast on MTV and as a symbol of the cultural shift from radio to music television.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Video Killed the Radio Star
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hasMusicVideo
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Video Killed the Radio Star
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Video Killed the Radio Star (music video)
this entity surface form:
Video Killed the Radio Star was the first music video broadcast on MTV
subject surface form:
Video Killed the Radio Star
this entity surface form:
Video Killed the Radio Star (music video)