Tony Hadley
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Tony Hadley is an English pop singer best known as the lead vocalist of the 1980s new wave band Spandau Ballet.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tony Hadley canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4696068 — 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: Tony Hadley Context triple: [Spandau Ballet, member, Tony Hadley]
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A.
Andy Taylor
Andy Taylor is the wise, kind-hearted sheriff and widowed father who serves as the central figure in the classic American television sitcom "The Andy Griffith Show."
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B.
Andrew Ridgeley
Andrew Ridgeley is an English musician and songwriter best known as one half of the 1980s pop duo Wham! alongside George Michael.
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C.
Mark Hunter
Mark Hunter is the rebellious, pirate-radio–hosting teenager who challenges authority and inspires his peers in the 1990 cult film "Pump Up the Volume."
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D.
Gary Kemp
Gary Kemp is an English musician and actor best known as the guitarist and songwriter for the band Spandau Ballet and for his roles in films such as "The Krays."
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E.
Roger Hodgson
Roger Hodgson is an English musician, singer-songwriter, and co-founder of the progressive rock band Supertramp, known for writing and singing many of their biggest hits.
- 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: Tony Hadley Target entity description: Tony Hadley is an English pop singer best known as the lead vocalist of the 1980s new wave band Spandau Ballet.
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A.
Andy Taylor
Andy Taylor is the wise, kind-hearted sheriff and widowed father who serves as the central figure in the classic American television sitcom "The Andy Griffith Show."
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B.
Andrew Ridgeley
Andrew Ridgeley is an English musician and songwriter best known as one half of the 1980s pop duo Wham! alongside George Michael.
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C.
Mark Hunter
Mark Hunter is the rebellious, pirate-radio–hosting teenager who challenges authority and inspires his peers in the 1990 cult film "Pump Up the Volume."
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D.
Gary Kemp
Gary Kemp is an English musician and actor best known as the guitarist and songwriter for the band Spandau Ballet and for his roles in films such as "The Krays."
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E.
Roger Hodgson
Roger Hodgson is an English musician, singer-songwriter, and co-founder of the progressive rock band Supertramp, known for writing and singing many of their biggest hits.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
musician ⓘ pop singer ⓘ radio presenter ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Gary Kemp
NERFINISHED
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John Keeble NERFINISHED ⓘ Martin Kemp NERFINISHED ⓘ Spandau Ballet NERFINISHED ⓘ Steve Norman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Anthony Patrick Hadley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1960-06-02 ⓘ |
| endTimeInBand | 2017 ⓘ |
| familyName | Hadley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
new wave
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pop ⓘ synth-pop ⓘ |
| givenName | Anthony ⓘ |
| hasChild | three children ⓘ |
| knownFor | lead vocalist of Spandau Ballet ⓘ |
| languageOfPerformance | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Spandau Ballet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Tony Hadley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | English ⓘ |
| notableEvent | left Spandau Ballet in 2017 ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Gold
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Through the Barricades NERFINISHED ⓘ True ⓘ |
| occupation |
musician
ⓘ
radio presenter ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| performedAt | Live Aid (1985) with Spandau Ballet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Islington
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
London, England ⓘ
surface form:
London
|
| releasedSoloAlbum |
Passing Strangers
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Talking to the Moon NERFINISHED ⓘ The State of Play NERFINISHED ⓘ Tony Hadley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| soloCareerStart | 1990s ⓘ |
| spouse | married more than once ⓘ |
| startTimeInBand | late 1970s ⓘ |
| vocalType | baritone ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1970s–present ⓘ |
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: Tony Hadley Description of subject: Tony Hadley is an English pop singer best known as the lead vocalist of the 1980s new wave band Spandau Ballet.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.