Virtual XI
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Virtual XI is a 1998 studio album by British heavy metal band Iron Maiden, known for featuring vocalist Blaze Bayley and incorporating themes inspired by virtual reality and football.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Virtual XI canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5875633 — 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: Virtual XI Context triple: [Iron Maiden, notableWork, Virtual XI]
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A.
Player X
Player X is a mysterious, high-stakes poker regular in *Molly's Game*, widely interpreted as a composite of real Hollywood celebrities who wield power and influence at the underground tables.
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B.
VMC
VMC is the Venus Monitoring Camera, a wide-angle imaging instrument on the European Space Agency’s Venus Express spacecraft used to study Venus’s atmosphere and cloud dynamics.
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C.
Simulator
Simulator is Apple's iOS and watchOS device emulation tool bundled with Xcode, used by developers to run and test apps on virtual Apple devices.
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D.
VXP
VXP is the ICAO airline designator assigned to Avelo Airlines, a U.S.-based low-cost carrier.
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E.
DirectPlay
DirectPlay is a deprecated Microsoft network communication library that provided multiplayer gaming and real-time communication support for Windows applications.
- 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: Virtual XI Target entity description: Virtual XI is a 1998 studio album by British heavy metal band Iron Maiden, known for featuring vocalist Blaze Bayley and incorporating themes inspired by virtual reality and football.
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A.
Player X
Player X is a mysterious, high-stakes poker regular in *Molly's Game*, widely interpreted as a composite of real Hollywood celebrities who wield power and influence at the underground tables.
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B.
VMC
VMC is the Venus Monitoring Camera, a wide-angle imaging instrument on the European Space Agency’s Venus Express spacecraft used to study Venus’s atmosphere and cloud dynamics.
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C.
Simulator
Simulator is Apple's iOS and watchOS device emulation tool bundled with Xcode, used by developers to run and test apps on virtual Apple devices.
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D.
VXP
VXP is the ICAO airline designator assigned to Avelo Airlines, a U.S.-based low-cost carrier.
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E.
DirectPlay
DirectPlay is a deprecated Microsoft network communication library that provided multiplayer gaming and real-time communication support for Windows applications.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
music album
ⓘ
studio album ⓘ |
| artist | Iron Maiden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bandMemberAtTime |
Blaze Bayley
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dave Murray NERFINISHED ⓘ Janick Gers NERFINISHED ⓘ Nicko McBrain NERFINISHED ⓘ Steve Harris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| catalogNumber | EMI 7243 4 93992 2 9 ⓘ |
| containsSingle |
Futureal
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Angel and the Gambler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| coverArtDesigner | Melvyn Grant NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresTheme |
football
ⓘ
virtual reality ⓘ |
| genre | heavy metal ⓘ |
| hasFormat |
CD
ⓘ
cassette ⓘ vinyl record ⓘ |
| hasTour | Virtual XI World Tour NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTrack |
Como Estais Amigos
ⓘ
Don’t Look to the Eyes of a Stranger NERFINISHED ⓘ Futureal NERFINISHED ⓘ Lightning Strikes Twice NERFINISHED ⓘ The Angel and the Gambler NERFINISHED ⓘ The Clansman NERFINISHED ⓘ The Educated Fool NERFINISHED ⓘ When Two Worlds Collide NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| length | 53:05 ⓘ |
| lyricist |
Blaze Bayley
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dave Murray NERFINISHED ⓘ Janick Gers NERFINISHED ⓘ Steve Harris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nextAlbum | Brave New World NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | Iron Maiden studio albums ⓘ |
| performer | Iron Maiden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionInDiscography | eleventh studio album ⓘ |
| previousAlbum | The X Factor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Nigel Green
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Steve Harris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordedAt | Barnyard Studios NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordedIn | 1997 ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
CMC International
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
EMI ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1998-03-23 ⓘ |
| vocalist | Blaze Bayley 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: Virtual XI Description of subject: Virtual XI is a 1998 studio album by British heavy metal band Iron Maiden, known for featuring vocalist Blaze Bayley and incorporating themes inspired by virtual reality and football.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.