Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man)
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"Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man)" is a progressive rock song by Styx, known for its intricate arrangements, uplifting message, and prominent use of synthesizers.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8696902 — 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: Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man) Context triple: [Styx, notableWork, Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man)]
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A.
Foolin'
"Foolin'" is a 1983 hard rock power ballad by English band Def Leppard, released as a single from their breakthrough album "Pyromania."
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B.
Angry Young Men
Angry Young Men were a group of mid-20th-century British writers and playwrights known for their outspoken criticism of the class system and postwar social conditions.
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C.
Find Another Fool
"Find Another Fool" is a rock song by the American band Quarterflash, released in the early 1980s and known for its powerful vocals and saxophone-driven sound.
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D.
Fool Again
"Fool Again" is a hit pop ballad by Irish boy band Westlife, released in 2000 as one of their early chart-topping singles.
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E.
Words of a Fool
"Words of a Fool" is a song by the Bee Gees’ Barry Gibb, later re-recorded for his country-tinged album "Greenfields: The Gibb Brothers' Songbook, Vol. 1."
- 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: Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man) Target entity description: "Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man)" is a progressive rock song by Styx, known for its intricate arrangements, uplifting message, and prominent use of synthesizers.
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A.
Foolin'
"Foolin'" is a 1983 hard rock power ballad by English band Def Leppard, released as a single from their breakthrough album "Pyromania."
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B.
Angry Young Men
Angry Young Men were a group of mid-20th-century British writers and playwrights known for their outspoken criticism of the class system and postwar social conditions.
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C.
Find Another Fool
"Find Another Fool" is a rock song by the American band Quarterflash, released in the early 1980s and known for its powerful vocals and saxophone-driven sound.
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D.
Fool Again
"Fool Again" is a hit pop ballad by Irish boy band Westlife, released in 2000 as one of their early chart-topping singles.
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E.
Words of a Fool
"Words of a Fool" is a song by the Bee Gees’ Barry Gibb, later re-recorded for his country-tinged album "Greenfields: The Gibb Brothers' Songbook, Vol. 1."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
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song ⓘ |
| album | The Grand Illusion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| artist | Styx NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | Tommy Shaw NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| genre |
progressive rock
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rock ⓘ |
| hasInstrumentation |
acoustic guitar
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bass guitar ⓘ drums ⓘ electric guitar ⓘ keyboards ⓘ synthesizer ⓘ vocals ⓘ |
| hasPart |
guitar solo
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instrumental introduction ⓘ synthesizer solo ⓘ |
| hasShortTitle | Fooling Yourself NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isInCatalogOf | Styx NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Tommy Shaw NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| lyricsTheme |
optimism
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overcoming negativity ⓘ self-doubt ⓘ self-empowerment ⓘ |
| musicBrainzType | work ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
complex time signatures
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intricate arrangements ⓘ prominent use of synthesizers ⓘ uplifting message ⓘ |
| partOf | The Grand Illusion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performer |
Chuck Panozzo
NERFINISHED
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Dennis DeYoung NERFINISHED ⓘ James Young NERFINISHED ⓘ John Panozzo NERFINISHED ⓘ Styx NERFINISHED ⓘ Tommy Shaw NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Barry Mraz
NERFINISHED
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Styx NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel | A&M Records ⓘ |
| usesInstrument |
Moog synthesizer
NERFINISHED
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Oberheim synthesizer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| vocalist |
Dennis DeYoung
NERFINISHED
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James Young NERFINISHED ⓘ Tommy Shaw 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: Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man) Description of subject: "Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man)" is a progressive rock song by Styx, known for its intricate arrangements, uplifting message, and prominent use of synthesizers.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.