Colin Newman
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Colin Newman is an English musician, singer and songwriter best known as the frontman of the post-punk band Wire and for his influential solo and collaborative work.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Colin Newman canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11732259 — 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: Colin Newman Context triple: [This Mortal Coil, member, Colin Newman]
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A.
John Squire
John Squire is an English musician and visual artist best known as the lead guitarist and co-founder of the influential alternative rock band The Stone Roses.
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B.
Peter Christopherson
Peter Christopherson was a British musician, video director, and designer best known as a member of the experimental groups Throbbing Gristle and Coil and for his influential visual work in music and album art.
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C.
Walter Hussey
Walter Hussey was a British Anglican clergyman and noted patron of the arts, renowned for commissioning major works from leading 20th-century composers and artists.
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D.
Richard Butler
Richard Butler was an American Revolutionary War officer and frontiersman whose military service on the early western frontier led to several U.S. counties being named in his honor.
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E.
Richard Butler
Richard Butler is an Australian diplomat best known for leading United Nations weapons inspection efforts in Iraq during the late 1990s.
- 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: Colin Newman Target entity description: Colin Newman is an English musician, singer and songwriter best known as the frontman of the post-punk band Wire and for his influential solo and collaborative work.
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A.
John Squire
John Squire is an English musician and visual artist best known as the lead guitarist and co-founder of the influential alternative rock band The Stone Roses.
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B.
Peter Christopherson
Peter Christopherson was a British musician, video director, and designer best known as a member of the experimental groups Throbbing Gristle and Coil and for his influential visual work in music and album art.
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C.
Walter Hussey
Walter Hussey was a British Anglican clergyman and noted patron of the arts, renowned for commissioning major works from leading 20th-century composers and artists.
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D.
Richard Butler
Richard Butler was an American Revolutionary War officer and frontiersman whose military service on the early western frontier led to several U.S. counties being named in his honor.
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E.
Richard Butler
Richard Butler is an Australian diplomat best known for leading United Nations weapons inspection efforts in Iraq during the late 1990s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
band
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human ⓘ musical duo ⓘ musician ⓘ record label ⓘ record producer ⓘ rock band ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1970s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Githead
NERFINISHED
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Immersion NERFINISHED ⓘ Minimal Compact NERFINISHED ⓘ Wire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coFounded | Swim ~ NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | Malka Spigel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| familyName | Newman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Colin Newman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
alternative rock
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art punk ⓘ experimental rock ⓘ post-punk ⓘ post-punk ⓘ punk rock ⓘ |
| givenName | Colin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMember | Colin Newman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Wire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Colin Newman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being frontman of Wire
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collaborative projects in post-punk and experimental music ⓘ influential solo work ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A-Z
NERFINISHED
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Commercial Suicide NERFINISHED ⓘ Not To NERFINISHED ⓘ Provisionally Entitled the Singing Fish NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
musician
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record producer ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| playsInstrument | guitar ⓘ |
| positionHeld | frontman of Wire ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Swim ~ NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Malka Spigel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| vocalType | lead 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: Colin Newman Description of subject: Colin Newman is an English musician, singer and songwriter best known as the frontman of the post-punk band Wire and for his influential solo and collaborative work.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.