Thomas Dolby
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Thomas Dolby is an English musician, producer, and technology entrepreneur best known for his pioneering work in synth-pop and the hit song "She Blinded Me with Science."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Thomas Dolby canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10694578 — 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: Thomas Dolby Context triple: [Bruce Woolley, notableCollaboration, Thomas Dolby]
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A.
Tom Dolby
Tom Dolby is an American novelist and filmmaker known for works exploring themes of identity, privilege, and LGBTQ+ experience.
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B.
Richard Ure
Richard Ure is an architect best known for designing Canberra’s landmark Telstra Tower.
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C.
Greg Phillinganes
Greg Phillinganes is an American keyboardist, musical director, and session musician renowned for his work with artists like Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, and Eric Clapton.
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D.
Midge Ure
Midge Ure is a Scottish musician, singer-songwriter, and producer best known as the frontman of Ultravox and co-writer of the charity single "Do They Know It's Christmas?".
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E.
Arthur Baker
Arthur Baker is an influential American record producer and DJ best known for his pioneering work in hip hop and dance music during the 1980s.
- 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: Thomas Dolby Target entity description: Thomas Dolby is an English musician, producer, and technology entrepreneur best known for his pioneering work in synth-pop and the hit song "She Blinded Me with Science."
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A.
Tom Dolby
Tom Dolby is an American novelist and filmmaker known for works exploring themes of identity, privilege, and LGBTQ+ experience.
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B.
Richard Ure
Richard Ure is an architect best known for designing Canberra’s landmark Telstra Tower.
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C.
Greg Phillinganes
Greg Phillinganes is an American keyboardist, musical director, and session musician renowned for his work with artists like Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, and Eric Clapton.
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D.
Midge Ure
Midge Ure is a Scottish musician, singer-songwriter, and producer best known as the frontman of Ultravox and co-writer of the charity single "Do They Know It's Christmas?".
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E.
Arthur Baker
Arthur Baker is an influential American record producer and DJ best known for his pioneering work in hip hop and dance music during the 1980s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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keyboardist ⓘ musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ synth-pop musician ⓘ technology entrepreneur ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | late 1970s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
David Bowie
NERFINISHED
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Def Leppard NERFINISHED ⓘ Foreigner NERFINISHED ⓘ Joni Mitchell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Thomas Morgan Robertson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1958-10-14 ⓘ |
| familyName | Robertson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
digital audio
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music technology ⓘ |
| founded |
Beatnik Inc.
NERFINISHED
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Headspace NERFINISHED ⓘ Retro Ringtones LLC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
electronic music
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new wave ⓘ synth-pop ⓘ |
| givenName | Thomas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| instrument |
keyboards
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piano ⓘ synthesizer ⓘ |
| knownFor |
hit single "She Blinded Me with Science"
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
pioneering work in synth-pop ⓘ |
| name | Thomas Dolby NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | English ⓘ |
| notableSong |
Europa and the Pirate Twins
NERFINISHED
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Hyperactive! NERFINISHED ⓘ One of Our Submarines NERFINISHED ⓘ She Blinded Me with Science NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Map of the Floating City
NERFINISHED
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Aliens Ate My Buick NERFINISHED ⓘ Astronauts & Heretics NERFINISHED ⓘ She Blinded Me with Science NERFINISHED ⓘ The Flat Earth NERFINISHED ⓘ The Golden Age of Wireless NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
musician
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record producer ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ technology entrepreneur ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
London, England
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surface form:
London
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| residence |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| stageName | Thomas Dolby NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Thomas Dolby Description of subject: Thomas Dolby is an English musician, producer, and technology entrepreneur best known for his pioneering work in synth-pop and the hit song "She Blinded Me with Science."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.