Crowes
E146953
Crowes is a surname variant of Crowe, borne by various individuals and families of English or Irish origin.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Crowes canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1277848 — 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: Crowes Context triple: [Crowe, hasVariant, Crowes]
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A.
Counting Crows
Counting Crows is an American rock band, formed in the early 1990s, known for their introspective lyrics and hits like "Mr. Jones" and "Accidentally in Love."
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B.
Gang of Four
The Gang of Four was a powerful political faction in China, led by Jiang Qing and three close allies, that played a key role in the Cultural Revolution and was later blamed for its excesses.
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C.
The Peacocks
The Peacocks is a traditional nickname for English football club Leeds United, referencing the historic Old Peacock pub near their Elland Road stadium.
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D.
Curtis Knight and the Squires
Curtis Knight and the Squires was an R&B/rock band best known as one of Jimi Hendrix’s early groups, where he played guitar before achieving solo fame.
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E.
Matchbox Twenty
Matchbox Twenty is an American rock band best known for late-1990s and early-2000s hits like "Push," "3AM," and "Unwell," led by singer-songwriter Rob Thomas.
- 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: Crowes Target entity description: Crowes is a surname variant of Crowe, borne by various individuals and families of English or Irish origin.
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A.
Counting Crows
Counting Crows is an American rock band, formed in the early 1990s, known for their introspective lyrics and hits like "Mr. Jones" and "Accidentally in Love."
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B.
Gang of Four
The Gang of Four was a powerful political faction in China, led by Jiang Qing and three close allies, that played a key role in the Cultural Revolution and was later blamed for its excesses.
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C.
The Peacocks
The Peacocks is a traditional nickname for English football club Leeds United, referencing the historic Old Peacock pub near their Elland Road stadium.
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D.
Curtis Knight and the Squires
Curtis Knight and the Squires was an R&B/rock band best known as one of Jimi Hendrix’s early groups, where he played guitar before achieving solo fame.
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E.
Matchbox Twenty
Matchbox Twenty is an American rock band best known for late-1990s and early-2000s hits like "Push," "3AM," and "Unwell," led by singer-songwriter Rob Thomas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
family name
ⓘ
surname ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
English-language surnames
ⓘ
Irish surnames ⓘ surnames of British Isles origin ⓘ |
| hasEtymologicalRoot | Crowe ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalUsage | British Isles ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin |
English
ⓘ
Irish ⓘ |
| hasNameType | hereditary surname ⓘ |
| hasOrthographicFeature | final -es ending ⓘ |
| hasRegionOfOrigin |
England
ⓘ
Ireland ⓘ |
| hasSpellingVariant | Crowe ⓘ |
| hasType |
patronymic surname
ⓘ
toponymic surname ⓘ |
| hasUsage | English-speaking countries ⓘ |
| hasVariant | Crowe ⓘ |
| isDerivedFrom | a personal name or nickname related to the bird "crow" ⓘ |
| isUsedAs | family name ⓘ |
| isUsedBy |
various families
ⓘ
various individuals ⓘ |
| isVariantOf | Crowe ⓘ |
| sharesEtymologyWith |
Crow
ⓘ
Crowe ⓘ |
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: Crowes Description of subject: Crowes is a surname variant of Crowe, borne by various individuals and families of English or Irish origin.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.