Greg Kihn
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Greg Kihn is an American rock musician and singer-songwriter best known as the frontman of The Greg Kihn Band, which had 1980s hits like "The Breakup Song" and "Jeopardy."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Greg Kihn canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9042910 — 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: Greg Kihn Context triple: [For You, hasCoverVersionBy, Greg Kihn]
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A.
Tom Bell
Tom Bell was an American football official best known for serving as the referee in Super Bowl III.
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B.
Tom Bell
Tom Bell was a British character actor known for his intense, gritty performances in film and television from the 1960s onward.
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C.
Gary Puckett
Gary Puckett is an American pop singer best known as the lead vocalist of Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, a band popular in the late 1960s for hits like "Young Girl."
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D.
Billy Backus
Billy Backus is an American former professional boxer best known for briefly holding the world welterweight title in the early 1970s.
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E.
Bobby Ellis
Bobby Ellis is a student associated with St. Clare's School.
- 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: Greg Kihn Target entity description: Greg Kihn is an American rock musician and singer-songwriter best known as the frontman of The Greg Kihn Band, which had 1980s hits like "The Breakup Song" and "Jeopardy."
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A.
Tom Bell
Tom Bell was an American football official best known for serving as the referee in Super Bowl III.
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B.
Tom Bell
Tom Bell was a British character actor known for his intense, gritty performances in film and television from the 1960s onward.
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C.
Gary Puckett
Gary Puckett is an American pop singer best known as the lead vocalist of Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, a band popular in the late 1960s for hits like "Young Girl."
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D.
Billy Backus
Billy Backus is an American former professional boxer best known for briefly holding the world welterweight title in the early 1970s.
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E.
Bobby Ellis
Bobby Ellis is a student associated with St. Clare's School.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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novelist ⓘ radio personality ⓘ rock musician ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ |
| basedIn | San Francisco Bay Area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| creativeWorkRole |
lead vocalist of The Greg Kihn Band
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primary songwriter for The Greg Kihn Band ⓘ |
| familyName | Kihn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
fiction writing
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popular music ⓘ rock music ⓘ |
| genre |
new wave music
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power pop ⓘ rock music ⓘ |
| givenName | Greg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPart | The Greg Kihn Band NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| instrument |
guitar
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vocals ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | The Greg Kihn Band NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Greg Kihn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
fronted a successful American rock band in the early MTV era
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had several Billboard Hot 100 hits in the 1980s ⓘ |
| notableSong |
Jeopardy
NERFINISHED
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The Breakup Song (They Don’t Write ’Em) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Big Rock Beat
NERFINISHED
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Horror Show NERFINISHED ⓘ Jeopardy NERFINISHED ⓘ Kihn of Hearts NERFINISHED ⓘ Kihnspiracy NERFINISHED ⓘ Kihntinued NERFINISHED ⓘ RocKihnRoll NERFINISHED ⓘ Rubber Soul (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Breakup Song (They Don’t Write ’Em) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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musician ⓘ radio host ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| positionHeld | frontman of The Greg Kihn Band ⓘ |
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: Greg Kihn Description of subject: Greg Kihn is an American rock musician and singer-songwriter best known as the frontman of The Greg Kihn Band, which had 1980s hits like "The Breakup Song" and "Jeopardy."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.