Alison Moyet
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Alison Moyet is an English singer-songwriter known for her powerful contralto voice and success in the 1980s both as half of the synth-pop duo Yazoo and as a solo artist.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Alison Moyet canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9548299 — 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: Alison Moyet Context triple: [Pete Glenister, notableWorkWith, Alison Moyet]
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A.
Annie Lennox
Annie Lennox is a Scottish singer, songwriter, and activist best known as the lead vocalist of Eurythmics and for her acclaimed solo career.
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B.
Randy Crawford
Randy Crawford is an American jazz and R&B singer known for her soulful voice and emotive interpretations of pop and soul standards.
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C.
Jennifer Rush
Jennifer Rush is an American pop singer best known for her powerful ballads in the 1980s, particularly the international hit "The Power of Love."
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D.
Belinda Carlisle
Belinda Carlisle is an American singer and former lead vocalist of the Go-Go's who achieved major solo success in the 1980s with pop hits like "Heaven Is a Place on Earth."
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E.
Kirsty MacColl
Kirsty MacColl was an English singer-songwriter known for her sharp, witty lyrics and distinctive voice, particularly recognized for her work on songs like “They Don’t Know” and “Fairytale of New York.”
- 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: Alison Moyet Target entity description: Alison Moyet is an English singer-songwriter known for her powerful contralto voice and success in the 1980s both as half of the synth-pop duo Yazoo and as a solo artist.
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A.
Annie Lennox
Annie Lennox is a Scottish singer, songwriter, and activist best known as the lead vocalist of Eurythmics and for her acclaimed solo career.
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B.
Randy Crawford
Randy Crawford is an American jazz and R&B singer known for her soulful voice and emotive interpretations of pop and soul standards.
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C.
Jennifer Rush
Jennifer Rush is an American pop singer best known for her powerful ballads in the 1980s, particularly the international hit "The Power of Love."
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D.
Belinda Carlisle
Belinda Carlisle is an American singer and former lead vocalist of the Go-Go's who achieved major solo success in the 1980s with pop hits like "Heaven Is a Place on Earth."
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E.
Kirsty MacColl
Kirsty MacColl was an English singer-songwriter known for her sharp, witty lyrics and distinctive voice, particularly recognized for her work on songs like “They Don’t Know” and “Fairytale of New York.”
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (58)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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recording artist ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ solo singer ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1970s ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Alf NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Vince Clarke
NERFINISHED
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Yazoo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived | BRIT Award for Best British Female Solo Artist NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Geneviève Alison Jane Moyet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1961-06-18 ⓘ |
| debutSoloAlbum | Alf ⓘ |
| decadeOfProminence | 1980s ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin | French descent ⓘ |
| familyName | Moyet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
blue-eyed soul
ⓘ
new wave ⓘ pop ⓘ synth-pop ⓘ |
| givenName |
Alison
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Geneviève NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChild | 3 ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://alisonmoyet.com/ ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Yazoo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Alison Moyet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
powerful contralto voice
ⓘ
success in the 1980s ⓘ |
| notableSong |
All Cried Out
NERFINISHED
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Invisible NERFINISHED ⓘ Is This Love? NERFINISHED ⓘ Love Letters NERFINISHED ⓘ Love Reign Supreme NERFINISHED ⓘ Love Resurrection NERFINISHED ⓘ That Ole Devil Called Love NERFINISHED ⓘ Weak in the Presence of Beauty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Alf
NERFINISHED
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Raindancing NERFINISHED ⓘ The Minutes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
musician
ⓘ
singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Billericay, Essex, England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Columbia Records
ⓘ
Sony Music Entertainment ⓘ
surface form:
Sony Music
|
| release |
Alf
NERFINISHED
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Essex NERFINISHED ⓘ Hometime NERFINISHED ⓘ Hoodoo NERFINISHED ⓘ Other ⓘ Raindancing NERFINISHED ⓘ The Minutes NERFINISHED ⓘ The Turn NERFINISHED ⓘ Voice NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | England ⓘ |
| vocalType | contralto ⓘ |
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: Alison Moyet Description of subject: Alison Moyet is an English singer-songwriter known for her powerful contralto voice and success in the 1980s both as half of the synth-pop duo Yazoo and as a solo artist.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.