Fame
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"Fame" is a 1975 funk-influenced song by David Bowie, co-written with John Lennon and Carlos Alomar, that became one of his signature hits and a U.S. number-one single.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4363193 — 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: Fame Context triple: [David Bowie, notableWork, Fame]
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A.
Fame
"Fame" is a song by Janet Jackson, known as one of her dance-pop tracks that showcases her signature rhythmic style and performance energy.
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Fuente de la Fama
Fuente de la Fama is a celebrated Baroque fountain in San Ildefonso, Spain, renowned for its elaborate sculptural design and association with the royal gardens of La Granja.
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Fame (TV series)
Fame is an American musical drama television series from the 1980s that follows students and faculty at a New York City performing arts high school as they pursue their artistic dreams and personal ambitions.
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D.
Parade
Parade is a groundbreaking 1917 ballet with music by Erik Satie and designs by Pablo Picasso, created for Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes and noted for its avant-garde fusion of art, theater, and dance.
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E.
Parade
Parade is a Tony Award–winning musical with music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown and a book by Alfred Uhry that dramatizes the 1913 trial and lynching of Leo Frank in Atlanta.
- 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: Fame Target entity description: "Fame" is a 1975 funk-influenced song by David Bowie, co-written with John Lennon and Carlos Alomar, that became one of his signature hits and a U.S. number-one single.
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A.
Fame
"Fame" is a song by Janet Jackson, known as one of her dance-pop tracks that showcases her signature rhythmic style and performance energy.
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B.
Fuente de la Fama
Fuente de la Fama is a celebrated Baroque fountain in San Ildefonso, Spain, renowned for its elaborate sculptural design and association with the royal gardens of La Granja.
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C.
Fame (TV series)
Fame is an American musical drama television series from the 1980s that follows students and faculty at a New York City performing arts high school as they pursue their artistic dreams and personal ambitions.
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D.
Parade
Parade is a groundbreaking 1917 ballet with music by Erik Satie and designs by Pablo Picasso, created for Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes and noted for its avant-garde fusion of art, theater, and dance.
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E.
Parade
Parade is a Tony Award–winning musical with music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown and a book by Alfred Uhry that dramatizes the 1913 trial and lynching of Leo Frank in Atlanta.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| achievedUSNumberOneSingle | true ⓘ |
| album | Young Americans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| artist | David Bowie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bSide | Right ⓘ |
| chartPositionUSBillboardHot100 | 1 ⓘ |
| composer |
Carlos Alomar
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
David Bowie NERFINISHED ⓘ John Lennon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| featuresArtist | John Lennon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followedSingleInUS | Golden Years NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
funk
ⓘ
funk rock ⓘ soul ⓘ |
| guitarist | Carlos Alomar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLength | 4:12 ⓘ |
| hasLiveVersionOn | Stage ⓘ |
| hasMusicVideo | Fame (music video) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableRiffBy | Carlos Alomar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasVocalContributionBy | John Lennon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| includedOnCompilation |
Best of Bowie
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Changesonebowie NERFINISHED ⓘ Nothing Has Changed NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| key | F minor ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist |
David Bowie
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
John Lennon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfAlbum | Young Americans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performer | David Bowie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performerVocal | David Bowie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precededSingleInUS | Young Americans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
David Bowie
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Harry Maslin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| rankedOnRollingStone500SongsList | true ⓘ |
| recordedIn |
Electric Lady Studios
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New York City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel | RCA Records ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1975-07-25 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1975 ⓘ |
| signatureSongOf | David Bowie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subjectMatter | critique of celebrity and the music industry ⓘ |
| tempo | mid-tempo ⓘ |
| timeSignature | 4/4 ⓘ |
| usedInFilm |
Pretty Woman
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The People vs. Larry Flynt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Fame Description of subject: "Fame" is a 1975 funk-influenced song by David Bowie, co-written with John Lennon and Carlos Alomar, that became one of his signature hits and a U.S. number-one single.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
fame