American Idol season 8
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American Idol season 8 was the 2009 installment of the popular U.S. singing competition television series that launched the career of winner Kris Allen and featured notable contestants like Adam Lambert.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| American Idol (season 8) | 1 |
| American Idol Season 8 | 1 |
| American Idol season 8 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5783377 — 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: American Idol season 8 Context triple: [Kris Allen, winnerOf, American Idol season 8]
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A.
American Idol season 6
American Idol season 6 was the 2007 installment of the popular U.S. singing competition television series that launched Jordin Sparks to fame as its champion.
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B.
American Idol
American Idol is a long-running U.S. televised singing competition that discovers and showcases aspiring music artists to a national audience.
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C.
American Idol season 4
American Idol season 4 was the 2005 installment of the popular U.S. singing competition show that launched country singer Carrie Underwood to stardom.
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D.
American Idol (season 2)
American Idol (season 2) is the second installment of the popular U.S. singing competition series that helped launch the careers of artists like winner Ruben Studdard and runner-up Clay Aiken.
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E.
American Idol (season 3)
American Idol (season 3) was the third season of the popular U.S. singing competition television series that helped launch the careers of artists like Jennifer Hudson, Fantasia Barrino, and Diana DeGarmo.
- 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: American Idol season 8 Target entity description: American Idol season 8 was the 2009 installment of the popular U.S. singing competition television series that launched the career of winner Kris Allen and featured notable contestants like Adam Lambert.
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A.
American Idol season 6
American Idol season 6 was the 2007 installment of the popular U.S. singing competition television series that launched Jordin Sparks to fame as its champion.
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B.
American Idol
American Idol is a long-running U.S. televised singing competition that discovers and showcases aspiring music artists to a national audience.
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C.
American Idol season 4
American Idol season 4 was the 2005 installment of the popular U.S. singing competition show that launched country singer Carrie Underwood to stardom.
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D.
American Idol (season 2)
American Idol (season 2) is the second installment of the popular U.S. singing competition series that helped launch the careers of artists like winner Ruben Studdard and runner-up Clay Aiken.
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E.
American Idol (season 3)
American Idol (season 3) was the third season of the popular U.S. singing competition television series that helped launch the careers of artists like Jennifer Hudson, Fantasia Barrino, and Diana DeGarmo.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
reality television series season
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television season ⓘ |
| airedInYear | 2009 ⓘ |
| basedOn | Pop Idol NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| broadcastInFormat | NTSC ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| featuresContestant |
Adam Lambert
NERFINISHED
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Alexis Grace NERFINISHED ⓘ Allison Iraheta NERFINISHED ⓘ Anoop Desai NERFINISHED ⓘ Danny Gokey NERFINISHED ⓘ Jasmine Murray NERFINISHED ⓘ Jorge Núñez NERFINISHED ⓘ Kendall Beard NERFINISHED ⓘ Kris Allen NERFINISHED ⓘ Lil Rounds NERFINISHED ⓘ Matt Giraud NERFINISHED ⓘ Megan Joy NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Sarver NERFINISHED ⓘ Norman Gentle NERFINISHED ⓘ Scott MacIntyre NERFINISHED ⓘ Tatiana Del Toro NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| finaleDate | 2009-05-20 ⓘ |
| followedBy | American Idol season 9 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| follows | American Idol season 7 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
music competition
ⓘ
reality competition ⓘ |
| host | Ryan Seacrest NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| introducedFeature | judges' save ⓘ |
| judge |
Kara DioGuardi
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Paula Abdul NERFINISHED ⓘ Randy Jackson NERFINISHED ⓘ Simon Cowell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| notableContestant |
Adam Lambert
NERFINISHED
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Allison Iraheta NERFINISHED ⓘ Danny Gokey NERFINISHED ⓘ Kris Allen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfFinalists | 13 ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | Fox NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | American Idol NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| premiereDate | 2009-01-13 ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
19 Entertainment
NERFINISHED
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FremantleMedia North America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| runnerUp | Adam Lambert NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| runnerUpHometown | San Diego, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| seasonNumber | 8 ⓘ |
| winner | Kris Allen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| winnerHometown | Conway, Arkansas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: American Idol season 8 Description of subject: American Idol season 8 was the 2009 installment of the popular U.S. singing competition television series that launched the career of winner Kris Allen and featured notable contestants like Adam Lambert.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
American Idol Season 8
this entity surface form:
American Idol (season 8)