Eddie Money
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Eddie Money was an American rock singer and songwriter best known for his hit songs in the late 1970s and 1980s, including “Two Tickets to Paradise” and “Take Me Home Tonight.”
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Eddie Money canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9839444 — 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: Eddie Money Context triple: [The Onion Field, musicBy, Eddie Money]
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A.
Billy Rich
Billy Rich is a film editor known for his work on major Hollywood productions, including the science fiction naval action movie "Battleship."
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B.
Michael Bolton
Michael Bolton is an American singer and songwriter known for his powerful, soulful ballads and successful pop and adult contemporary hits, especially in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
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C.
Michael Montgomery
Michael Montgomery is an actor known for his role in the classic "The Twilight Zone" episode "Walking Distance."
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D.
Greg Kihn
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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E.
Leo Sayer
Leo Sayer is an English pop singer-songwriter best known for his 1970s hits such as "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing" and "When I Need You."
- 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: Eddie Money Target entity description: Eddie Money was an American rock singer and songwriter best known for his hit songs in the late 1970s and 1980s, including “Two Tickets to Paradise” and “Take Me Home Tonight.”
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A.
Billy Rich
Billy Rich is a film editor known for his work on major Hollywood productions, including the science fiction naval action movie "Battleship."
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B.
Michael Bolton
Michael Bolton is an American singer and songwriter known for his powerful, soulful ballads and successful pop and adult contemporary hits, especially in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
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C.
Michael Montgomery
Michael Montgomery is an actor known for his role in the classic "The Twilight Zone" episode "Walking Distance."
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D.
Greg Kihn
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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E.
Leo Sayer
Leo Sayer is an English pop singer-songwriter best known for his 1970s hits such as "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing" and "When I Need You."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
rock singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1970s ⓘ |
| associatedAct | Ronnie Spector NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Edward Joseph Mahoney NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Los Angeles (uncertain) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | complications from esophageal cancer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1949-03-21 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2019-09-13 ⓘ |
| debutAlbum | Eddie Money NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| debutAlbumReleaseYear | 1977 ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Irish-American ⓘ |
| familyName | Mahoney NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formerOccupation | New York City police trainee ⓘ |
| genre |
hard rock
ⓘ
pop rock ⓘ rock ⓘ |
| givenName | Edward ⓘ |
| hasTelevisionShow | Real Money NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| instrument | vocals ⓘ |
| knownFor | hit songs in the late 1970s and 1980s ⓘ |
| name | Eddie Money NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableSingle |
Baby Hold On
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Shakin' NERFINISHED ⓘ Take Me Home Tonight NERFINISHED ⓘ Think I'm in Love NERFINISHED ⓘ Two Tickets to Paradise NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Baby Hold On
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
I Wanna Go Back NERFINISHED ⓘ Shakin' NERFINISHED ⓘ Take Me Home Tonight NERFINISHED ⓘ Think I'm in Love NERFINISHED ⓘ Two Tickets to Paradise NERFINISHED ⓘ Walk on Water NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 5 ⓘ |
| occupation |
musician
ⓘ
singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| parentOccupation | New York City police officer (father) ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Los Angeles, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Columbia Records ⓘ |
| residence | California, United States ⓘ |
| spouse | Laurie Money NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stageName | Eddie Money NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| televisionShowNetwork | AXS TV NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| vocalType | tenor ⓘ |
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: Eddie Money Description of subject: Eddie Money was an American rock singer and songwriter best known for his hit songs in the late 1970s and 1980s, including “Two Tickets to Paradise” and “Take Me Home Tonight.”
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.