Seal
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Seal is a British singer-songwriter known for his soulful voice and hit songs such as "Kiss from a Rose."
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Seal canonical | 104 |
| Adamski featuring Seal | 1 |
| Seal (musician) | 1 |
| Seal Henry Olusegun Olumide Adeola Samuel | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T269099 — 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: Seal Context triple: [Trevor Horn, associatedAct, Seal]
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A.
Paul Young
Paul Young is an American politician serving as the mayor of Memphis, Tennessee.
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B.
Lenny Kravitz
Lenny Kravitz is an American rock musician, singer-songwriter, and actor known for his retro-inspired sound blending rock, soul, funk, and blues.
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C.
James Blunt
James Blunt is an English singer-songwriter and former British Army officer best known for his hit single "You're Beautiful" and the album "Back to Bedlam."
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D.
Lionel Richie
Lionel Richie is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer known for his smooth R&B and pop ballads and hits such as "Hello," "All Night Long," and "Endless Love."
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E.
Luther Vandross
Luther Vandross was an American R&B and soul singer, songwriter, and producer renowned for his smooth, emotive vocals and classic love ballads.
- 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: Seal Target entity description: Seal is a British singer-songwriter known for his soulful voice and hit songs such as "Kiss from a Rose."
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A.
Paul Young
Paul Young is an American politician serving as the mayor of Memphis, Tennessee.
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B.
Lenny Kravitz
Lenny Kravitz is an American rock musician, singer-songwriter, and actor known for his retro-inspired sound blending rock, soul, funk, and blues.
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C.
James Blunt
James Blunt is an English singer-songwriter and former British Army officer best known for his hit single "You're Beautiful" and the album "Back to Bedlam."
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D.
Lionel Richie
Lionel Richie is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer known for his smooth R&B and pop ballads and hits such as "Hello," "All Night Long," and "Endless Love."
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E.
Luther Vandross
Luther Vandross was an American R&B and soul singer, songwriter, and producer renowned for his smooth, emotive vocals and classic love ballads.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (55)
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: Seal Description of subject: Seal is a British singer-songwriter known for his soulful voice and hit songs such as "Kiss from a Rose."
Referenced by (107)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Seal (musician)