Patty Smyth
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Patty Smyth is an American rock singer and songwriter best known as the lead vocalist of the band Scandal and for solo hits like "Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Patty Smyth canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4441156 — 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: Patty Smyth Context triple: [Junior, originalSongPerformer, Patty Smyth]
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A.
Belinda Carlisle
Belinda Carlisle is an American singer and former lead vocalist of the Go-Go's who achieved major solo success in the 1980s with pop hits like "Heaven Is a Place on Earth."
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B.
Pamela Archer
Pamela Archer was the second wife of famed American World War II hero and actor Audie Murphy, with whom she had two sons and remained married until his death.
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C.
Laura Branigan
Laura Branigan was an American pop singer and actress best known for her powerful vocals and 1980s hits such as "Gloria" and "Self Control."
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D.
Melissa Etheridge
Melissa Etheridge is an American rock singer-songwriter and guitarist known for her raspy vocals, confessional lyrics, and hits such as "Come to My Window" and "I'm the Only One."
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E.
Rita Coolidge
Rita Coolidge is an American singer known for her smooth pop, country, and adult contemporary hits in the 1970s and 1980s, including songs like "We're All Alone" and "(Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher and Higher."
- 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: Patty Smyth Target entity description: Patty Smyth is an American rock singer and songwriter best known as the lead vocalist of the band Scandal and for solo hits like "Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough."
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A.
Belinda Carlisle
Belinda Carlisle is an American singer and former lead vocalist of the Go-Go's who achieved major solo success in the 1980s with pop hits like "Heaven Is a Place on Earth."
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B.
Pamela Archer
Pamela Archer was the second wife of famed American World War II hero and actor Audie Murphy, with whom she had two sons and remained married until his death.
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C.
Laura Branigan
Laura Branigan was an American pop singer and actress best known for her powerful vocals and 1980s hits such as "Gloria" and "Self Control."
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D.
Melissa Etheridge
Melissa Etheridge is an American rock singer-songwriter and guitarist known for her raspy vocals, confessional lyrics, and hits such as "Come to My Window" and "I'm the Only One."
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E.
Rita Coolidge
Rita Coolidge is an American singer known for her smooth pop, country, and adult contemporary hits in the 1970s and 1980s, including songs like "We're All Alone" and "(Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher and Higher."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
rock musician ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | early 1980s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Don Henley
NERFINISHED
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John Waite NERFINISHED ⓘ Scandal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Grammy Award nomination for Best Pop Vocal, Female NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Patricia Smyth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfResidence | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1957-06-26 ⓘ |
| familyName | Smyth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
pop rock
ⓘ
rock music ⓘ |
| givenName | Patricia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Anna McEnroe
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ava McEnroe NERFINISHED ⓘ Ruby Meyers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| instrument | vocals ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Scandal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Patty Smyth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| nominatedFor | Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableCollaboration | Don Henley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableSong |
Beat of a Heart
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
I Should Be Laughing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Goodbye to You
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hands Tied NERFINISHED ⓘ Love's Got a Line on You NERFINISHED ⓘ Never Enough (album) NERFINISHED ⓘ Patty Smyth (album) NERFINISHED ⓘ Scandal (EP) NERFINISHED ⓘ Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough NERFINISHED ⓘ The Warrior NERFINISHED ⓘ Warrior (album) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
singer
ⓘ
songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | New York City ⓘ |
| positionHeld | lead vocalist of Scandal ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Columbia Records
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MCA Records ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | John McEnroe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| vocalType | mezzo-soprano ⓘ |
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: Patty Smyth Description of subject: Patty Smyth is an American rock singer and songwriter best known as the lead vocalist of the band Scandal and for solo hits like "Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.