"Automatic"
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"Automatic" is a 1984 synth-driven R&B and pop hit by The Pointer Sisters that became one of their signature songs and a major chart success.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| "Automatic" canonical | 1 |
| Automatic | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10526696 — 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: "Automatic" Context triple: [The Pointer Sisters, notableWork, "Automatic"]
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A.
Automat
"Automat" is a 1927 oil painting by American realist artist Edward Hopper, depicting a solitary woman seated in a self-service restaurant under stark electric light, emblematic of urban isolation and modern alienation.
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B.
“Selfmachine”
“Selfmachine” is a synth-driven pop song by British musician Eliot Sumner (formerly known as I Blame Coco), noted for its introspective lyrics and distinctive electronic sound.
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C.
Autonoë
Autonoë is a figure in Greek mythology, a daughter of Cadmus and Harmonia and sister of Semele, known primarily as the mother of the hunter Actaeon.
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D.
The Machine
The Machine is the nickname of Albert Pujols, a Dominican-American former Major League Baseball first baseman renowned for his remarkably consistent and powerful hitting.
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E.
The Machine
The Machine is a powerful, clandestine artificial superintelligence from the TV series "Person of Interest" that predicts violent crimes by analyzing global surveillance data.
- 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: "Automatic" Target entity description: "Automatic" is a 1984 synth-driven R&B and pop hit by The Pointer Sisters that became one of their signature songs and a major chart success.
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A.
Automat
"Automat" is a 1927 oil painting by American realist artist Edward Hopper, depicting a solitary woman seated in a self-service restaurant under stark electric light, emblematic of urban isolation and modern alienation.
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B.
“Selfmachine”
“Selfmachine” is a synth-driven pop song by British musician Eliot Sumner (formerly known as I Blame Coco), noted for its introspective lyrics and distinctive electronic sound.
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C.
Autonoë
Autonoë is a figure in Greek mythology, a daughter of Cadmus and Harmonia and sister of Semele, known primarily as the mother of the hunter Actaeon.
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D.
The Machine
The Machine is the nickname of Albert Pujols, a Dominican-American former Major League Baseball first baseman renowned for his remarkably consistent and powerful hitting.
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E.
The Machine
The Machine is a powerful, clandestine artificial superintelligence from the TV series "Person of Interest" that predicts violent crimes by analyzing global surveillance data.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| album | Break Out NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| artist | The Pointer Sisters NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chartPositionAustralia | 8 ⓘ |
| chartPositionCanada | 15 ⓘ |
| chartPositionIreland | 1 ⓘ |
| chartPositionNewZealand | 5 ⓘ |
| chartPositionUKSinglesChart | 2 ⓘ |
| chartPositionUSBillboardHot100 | 5 ⓘ |
| chartPositionUSRB | 2 ⓘ |
| composer |
Brock Walsh
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mark Goldenberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| decade | 1980s ⓘ |
| featuresInstrument |
drum machine
ⓘ
electric bass ⓘ synthesizer ⓘ |
| format |
12-inch single
ⓘ
7-inch single ⓘ |
| genre |
R&B
ⓘ
pop ⓘ synth-pop ⓘ |
| hasBside | Nightline NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGenreInfluence | post-disco ⓘ |
| hasISRC | USRC18300074 ⓘ |
| hasMusicVideo | yes ⓘ |
| includedIn | The Pointer Sisters compilation albums ⓘ |
| isSignatureSongOf | The Pointer Sisters NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| leadVocalist | Ruth Pointer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| length | 4:48 ⓘ |
| lyricist | Brock Walsh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being one of The Pointer Sisters’ biggest hits
ⓘ
synth-driven R&B production ⓘ |
| partOfAlbum | Break Out NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performer | The Pointer Sisters NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Richard Perry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordingPeriod | 1983 ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Planet Records
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
RCA Records ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1984-01-13 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1984 ⓘ |
| tempo | mid-tempo ⓘ |
| vocalist |
Anita Pointer
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
June Pointer NERFINISHED ⓘ Ruth Pointer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| vocalStyle | contralto lead vocal ⓘ |
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: "Automatic" Description of subject: "Automatic" is a 1984 synth-driven R&B and pop hit by The Pointer Sisters that became one of their signature songs and a major chart success.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.