Paul Oakenfold
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Paul Oakenfold is a pioneering British DJ and record producer known for popularizing trance music worldwide and remixing major artists across electronic and pop genres.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Paul Oakenfold canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5863056 — 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: Paul Oakenfold Context triple: [Even Better Than the Real Thing, remixProducer, Paul Oakenfold]
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A.
Paul van Dyk
Paul van Dyk is a German DJ and producer widely regarded as one of the pioneers and leading figures of the trance music genre.
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B.
Bob Sinclar
Bob Sinclar is a French DJ, record producer, and remixer known for his influential role in the house music scene and international club hits.
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C.
Benny Benassi
Benny Benassi is an Italian DJ and record producer best known for his influential electro house hits like "Satisfaction."
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D.
Matthew Herbert
Matthew Herbert is an experimental British musician and producer known for his innovative use of found sounds and unconventional recording techniques in electronic and jazz-influenced music.
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E.
Armand Van Helden
Armand Van Helden is an American DJ, producer, and remixer known as a leading figure in house music since the 1990s, with hits like "You Don't Know Me" and "My My My."
- 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: Paul Oakenfold Target entity description: Paul Oakenfold is a pioneering British DJ and record producer known for popularizing trance music worldwide and remixing major artists across electronic and pop genres.
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A.
Paul van Dyk
Paul van Dyk is a German DJ and producer widely regarded as one of the pioneers and leading figures of the trance music genre.
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B.
Bob Sinclar
Bob Sinclar is a French DJ, record producer, and remixer known for his influential role in the house music scene and international club hits.
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C.
Benny Benassi
Benny Benassi is an Italian DJ and record producer best known for his influential electro house hits like "Satisfaction."
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D.
Matthew Herbert
Matthew Herbert is an experimental British musician and producer known for his innovative use of found sounds and unconventional recording techniques in electronic and jazz-influenced music.
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E.
Armand Van Helden
Armand Van Helden is an American DJ, producer, and remixer known as a leading figure in house music since the 1990s, with hits like "You Don't Know Me" and "My My My."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
DJ
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human ⓘ record producer ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1980s ⓘ |
| associatedAct | Perfecto Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Paul Mark Oakenfold NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1963-08-30 ⓘ |
| founded | Perfecto Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
electronic dance music
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house ⓘ progressive house ⓘ progressive trance ⓘ trance ⓘ |
| influencedGenre |
progressive house
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trance ⓘ |
| movement | UK dance music scene ⓘ |
| name | Paul Oakenfold NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableFor |
helping introduce Balearic and Ibiza club sounds to UK audiences
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popularizing trance music worldwide ⓘ remixing major pop and rock artists ⓘ |
| notableWork |
album "A Lively Mind"
NERFINISHED
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album "Bunkka" NERFINISHED ⓘ compilation "Perfecto Presents Another World" ⓘ compilation "Tranceport" NERFINISHED ⓘ mix album "Global Underground 004: Paul Oakenfold Live in Oslo" NERFINISHED ⓘ mix album "Global Underground 007: New York" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
DJ
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composer ⓘ music executive ⓘ record producer ⓘ remixer ⓘ |
| performedAt |
Cream at Nation, Liverpool
NERFINISHED
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Ibiza superclubs ⓘ Ministry of Sound, London NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
London, England
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surface form:
London
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| recordLabel |
Maverick Records
NERFINISHED
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Perfecto Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Warner Bros. Records ⓘ |
| remixed |
Britney Spears
NERFINISHED
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Justin Timberlake NERFINISHED ⓘ Madonna NERFINISHED ⓘ Massive Attack NERFINISHED ⓘ Moby NERFINISHED ⓘ New Order NERFINISHED ⓘ The Cure NERFINISHED ⓘ The Rolling Stones NERFINISHED ⓘ U2 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: Paul Oakenfold Description of subject: Paul Oakenfold is a pioneering British DJ and record producer known for popularizing trance music worldwide and remixing major artists across electronic and pop genres.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.