A Kind of Magic
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A Kind of Magic is a 1986 studio album by the British rock band Queen, known for its blend of rock and pop and for featuring several songs from the film "Highlander."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| A Kind of Magic canonical | 5 |
| A Kind of Magic (album) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8485655 — 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: A Kind of Magic Context triple: [Queen, notableWork, A Kind of Magic]
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A.
Magic (song)
"Magic" is a popular song title used by multiple artists, most notably the 1974 hit by Pilot and the 2014 single by Coldplay.
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B.
Pinball Wizard
"Pinball Wizard" is a famous rock song by The Who, best known as a highlight of their 1969 rock opera album *Tommy* and for its depiction of a prodigiously skilled pinball player.
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C.
A Trick of the Tail
A Trick of the Tail is a 1976 progressive rock album by Genesis, notable as their first release after Peter Gabriel’s departure and for helping establish Phil Collins as the band’s lead vocalist.
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D.
Invisible Touch
"Invisible Touch" is a 1986 pop-rock song by the English band Genesis, known for its catchy hook and commercial success as one of their biggest hits.
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E.
It's Magic
"It's Magic" is a popular song written by lyricist Sammy Cahn, best known for its introduction in the 1948 film "Romance on the High Seas" and subsequent status as a pop standard.
- 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: A Kind of Magic Target entity description: A Kind of Magic is a 1986 studio album by the British rock band Queen, known for its blend of rock and pop and for featuring several songs from the film "Highlander."
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A.
Magic (song)
"Magic" is a popular song title used by multiple artists, most notably the 1974 hit by Pilot and the 2014 single by Coldplay.
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B.
Pinball Wizard
"Pinball Wizard" is a famous rock song by The Who, best known as a highlight of their 1969 rock opera album *Tommy* and for its depiction of a prodigiously skilled pinball player.
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C.
A Trick of the Tail
A Trick of the Tail is a 1976 progressive rock album by Genesis, notable as their first release after Peter Gabriel’s departure and for helping establish Phil Collins as the band’s lead vocalist.
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D.
Invisible Touch
"Invisible Touch" is a 1986 pop-rock song by the English band Genesis, known for its catchy hook and commercial success as one of their biggest hits.
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E.
It's Magic
"It's Magic" is a popular song written by lyricist Sammy Cahn, best known for its introduction in the 1948 film "Romance on the High Seas" and subsequent status as a pop standard.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Queen album
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studio album ⓘ |
| artist | Queen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chartPosition | 1 on UK Albums Chart ⓘ |
| chartPositionUK | 1 ⓘ |
| chronologicallyFollows | The Works NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chronologicallyPrecedes | The Miracle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer |
Brian May
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Freddie Mercury NERFINISHED ⓘ John Deacon NERFINISHED ⓘ Roger Taylor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| coverArtDepicts | stylized cartoon versions of Queen members ⓘ |
| featuresSongFrom | Highlander NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
arena rock
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hard rock ⓘ pop rock ⓘ rock ⓘ |
| hasPart |
A Kind of Magic (song)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Don’t Lose Your Head NERFINISHED ⓘ Friends Will Be Friends NERFINISHED ⓘ Gimme the Prize (Kurgan’s Theme) NERFINISHED ⓘ One Vision NERFINISHED ⓘ One Year of Love NERFINISHED ⓘ Pain Is So Close to Pleasure NERFINISHED ⓘ Princes of the Universe NERFINISHED ⓘ Who Wants to Live Forever NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium |
cassette tape
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compact disc ⓘ vinyl record ⓘ |
| notableSong |
A Kind of Magic (song)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
One Vision NERFINISHED ⓘ Princes of the Universe NERFINISHED ⓘ Who Wants to Live Forever NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfTracks | 9 ⓘ |
| partOf | Queen discography ⓘ |
| performer | Queen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
David Richards
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mack NERFINISHED ⓘ Queen NERFINISHED ⓘ Reinhold Mack NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1986 ⓘ |
| recordedIn |
Abbey Road Studios, London
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mountain Studios, Montreux NERFINISHED ⓘ Musicland Studios, Munich NERFINISHED ⓘ Townhouse Studios, London NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Capitol Records
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EMI Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1986-06-02 ⓘ |
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: A Kind of Magic Description of subject: A Kind of Magic is a 1986 studio album by the British rock band Queen, known for its blend of rock and pop and for featuring several songs from the film "Highlander."
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
A Kind of Magic (album)