Damn the Torpedoes
E109044
Damn the Torpedoes is a critically acclaimed 1979 rock album by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers that marked their commercial breakthrough.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Damn the Torpedoes canonical | 19 |
| Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T922770 — 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: Damn the Torpedoes Context triple: [Tom Petty, notableWork, Damn the Torpedoes]
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A.
Unconquerable Spirit
Unconquerable Spirit is the English motto of the U.S. Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Command, reflecting its elite Marines’ resilience, determination, and refusal to yield in combat.
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B.
Follow the Fleet
Follow the Fleet is a 1936 Hollywood musical film starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, known for its dance sequences, romantic comedy plot, and classic Irving Berlin songs.
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C.
Bluewater
Bluewater is a large out-of-town shopping and leisure centre located in Kent, England.
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D.
Flaming Pie
Flaming Pie is a 1997 solo studio album by Paul McCartney that marked a critically acclaimed creative resurgence influenced by his work on The Beatles Anthology.
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E.
Make Peace or Die
"Make Peace or Die" is the fierce and uncompromising motto of the U.S. Marine Corps' 5th Marine Regiment, reflecting its warrior ethos and readiness for combat.
- 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: Damn the Torpedoes Target entity description: Damn the Torpedoes is a critically acclaimed 1979 rock album by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers that marked their commercial breakthrough.
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A.
Unconquerable Spirit
Unconquerable Spirit is the English motto of the U.S. Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Command, reflecting its elite Marines’ resilience, determination, and refusal to yield in combat.
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B.
Follow the Fleet
Follow the Fleet is a 1936 Hollywood musical film starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, known for its dance sequences, romantic comedy plot, and classic Irving Berlin songs.
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C.
Bluewater
Bluewater is a large out-of-town shopping and leisure centre located in Kent, England.
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D.
Flaming Pie
Flaming Pie is a 1997 solo studio album by Paul McCartney that marked a critically acclaimed creative resurgence influenced by his work on The Beatles Anthology.
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E.
Make Peace or Die
"Make Peace or Die" is the fierce and uncompromising motto of the U.S. Marine Corps' 5th Marine Regiment, reflecting its warrior ethos and readiness for combat.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Damn the Torpedoes Description of subject: Damn the Torpedoes is a critically acclaimed 1979 rock album by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers that marked their commercial breakthrough.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Don't Do Me Like That
linked to: Damn the Torpedoes
subject linked to:
You’re Gonna Get It!
linked to: Damn the Torpedoes