Spying Glass
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"Spying Glass" is a roots reggae song by Jamaican singer Horace Andy, known for its haunting vocals and later popularized through a trip-hop reinterpretation by Massive Attack.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Spying Glass canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11140761 — 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: Spying Glass Context triple: [Horace Andy, notableWork, Spying Glass]
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A.
Looking Glass
Looking Glass is a masked vigilante and member of Tulsa's police force in the HBO series "Watchmen," known for his reflective mask and keen interrogative skills.
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B.
Looking Glass
Looking Glass is the callsign for the U.S. Navy’s Boeing E-6 Mercury aircraft that serves as an airborne command post for nuclear command and control operations.
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C.
Looking Glass
Looking Glass was a prominent Nez Perce leader and war chief who played a key strategic role during the Nez Perce War of 1877.
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D.
Augenspiegel
Augenspiegel is a 1511 humanist treatise by Johann Reuchlin defending Jewish writings and scholarship against calls for their destruction.
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E.
Sky Glass
Sky Glass is Sky’s integrated smart television platform that combines a 4K TV with built-in streaming, live TV, and voice control without requiring a satellite dish.
- 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: Spying Glass Target entity description: "Spying Glass" is a roots reggae song by Jamaican singer Horace Andy, known for its haunting vocals and later popularized through a trip-hop reinterpretation by Massive Attack.
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A.
Looking Glass
Looking Glass is a masked vigilante and member of Tulsa's police force in the HBO series "Watchmen," known for his reflective mask and keen interrogative skills.
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B.
Looking Glass
Looking Glass is the callsign for the U.S. Navy’s Boeing E-6 Mercury aircraft that serves as an airborne command post for nuclear command and control operations.
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C.
Looking Glass
Looking Glass was a prominent Nez Perce leader and war chief who played a key strategic role during the Nez Perce War of 1877.
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D.
Augenspiegel
Augenspiegel is a 1511 humanist treatise by Johann Reuchlin defending Jewish writings and scholarship against calls for their destruction.
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E.
Sky Glass
Sky Glass is Sky’s integrated smart television platform that combines a 4K TV with built-in streaming, live TV, and voice control without requiring a satellite dish.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
musical work
ⓘ
musical work ⓘ song ⓘ song ⓘ |
| basedOn | Spying Glass NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Jamaica ⓘ |
| featuresVocalist | Horace Andy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
reggae
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roots reggae ⓘ trip hop ⓘ |
| hasNotableCharacteristic | haunting vocal delivery ⓘ |
| hasReinterpretation | Spying Glass (Massive Attack version) GENERATED ⓘ |
| language |
English
ⓘ
English ⓘ |
| musicStyle | roots reggae ⓘ |
| notablePerformer | Horace Andy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableReinterpretationBy | Massive Attack GENERATED ⓘ |
| performer |
Horace Andy
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Massive Attack NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| vocalStyle | haunting vocals ⓘ |
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: Spying Glass Description of subject: "Spying Glass" is a roots reggae song by Jamaican singer Horace Andy, known for its haunting vocals and later popularized through a trip-hop reinterpretation by Massive Attack.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Horace Andy