Astra
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Astra is a 1985 progressive rock album by the band Asia, featuring keyboardist Geoff Downes and known for its melodic, synth-driven sound.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Astra canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9906067 — 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: Astra Context triple: [Geoff Downes, notableWork, Astra]
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A.
Astra
Astra is a prominent Asian work, likely a creative or literary piece, recognized for its cultural and artistic significance within Asia.
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B.
Astra
Astra is an Italian manufacturer of heavy-duty off-road trucks and construction vehicles, known for its robust equipment used in mining, construction, and military applications.
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C.
Astra Planeta
Astra Planeta are the personified star and planet deities of ancient Greek mythology, often depicted as radiant celestial gods associated with the night sky.
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D.
ASTRA
ASTRA is the abbreviated name of Switzerland’s Federal Roads Office, the national authority responsible for the country’s road infrastructure and traffic management.
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E.
Antares
Antares was the Lunar Module used in NASA’s Apollo 14 mission to land astronauts on the Moon in 1971.
- 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: Astra Target entity description: Astra is a 1985 progressive rock album by the band Asia, featuring keyboardist Geoff Downes and known for its melodic, synth-driven sound.
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A.
Astra
Astra is a prominent Asian work, likely a creative or literary piece, recognized for its cultural and artistic significance within Asia.
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B.
Astra
Astra is an Italian manufacturer of heavy-duty off-road trucks and construction vehicles, known for its robust equipment used in mining, construction, and military applications.
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C.
Astra Planeta
Astra Planeta are the personified star and planet deities of ancient Greek mythology, often depicted as radiant celestial gods associated with the night sky.
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D.
ASTRA
ASTRA is the abbreviated name of Switzerland’s Federal Roads Office, the national authority responsible for the country’s road infrastructure and traffic management.
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E.
Antares
Antares was the Lunar Module used in NASA’s Apollo 14 mission to land astronauts on the Moon in 1971.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
music album
ⓘ
studio album ⓘ |
| artist | Asia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chartPositionUKAlbumsChart | 68 ⓘ |
| chartPositionUSBillboard200 | 67 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| coverArtDesigner | Roger Dean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresMusician |
Carl Palmer
NERFINISHED
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Geoff Downes NERFINISHED ⓘ John Wetton NERFINISHED ⓘ Mandy Meyer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followedBy | Then & Now NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
AOR
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arena rock ⓘ pop rock ⓘ progressive rock ⓘ |
| hasCoverArt | fantasy landscape with creature motif ⓘ |
| hasStyleCharacteristic |
melodic hooks
ⓘ
polished 1980s production ⓘ |
| hasTrack |
After the War
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Countdown to Zero NERFINISHED ⓘ Go ⓘ Hard On Me NERFINISHED ⓘ Love Now Till Eternity NERFINISHED ⓘ Open Your Eyes NERFINISHED ⓘ Rock and Roll Dream NERFINISHED ⓘ Suspicion ⓘ Too Late NERFINISHED ⓘ Voice of America NERFINISHED ⓘ Wishing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| label |
Geffen
NERFINISHED
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Geffen Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| length | approximately 47 minutes ⓘ |
| mainInstrumentalFocus | synthesizers ⓘ |
| notableFor |
melodic synth-driven sound
ⓘ
use of prominent keyboards by Geoff Downes ⓘ |
| partOfDiscography | Asia discography ⓘ |
| performer | Asia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precededBy |
Alpha (Asia album)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Asia (album) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Geoff Downes
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mike Stone NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordedIn | 1985 ⓘ |
| recordLabelCatalogNumber | Geffen GHS 24072 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1985-11-30 ⓘ |
| single |
Go
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Rock and Roll Dream NERFINISHED ⓘ Too Late NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Astra Description of subject: Astra is a 1985 progressive rock album by the band Asia, featuring keyboardist Geoff Downes and known for its melodic, synth-driven sound.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.