The Payback
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The Payback is a 1973 funk album by James Brown, widely regarded as one of his most influential and sampled works, featuring extended grooves and socially charged themes.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Payback canonical | 9 |
| The Payback (1973 studio album) | 1 |
| The Payback (song) | 1 |
| “The Pay Back” | 1 |
| “The Payback” | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1952190 — 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: The Payback Context triple: [James Brown, notableAlbum, The Payback]
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A.
The Price You Pay
"The Price You Pay" is a song by Bruce Springsteen from his 1980 album *The River*, reflecting themes of sacrifice and the consequences of life’s choices.
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B.
The Price
The Price is a 1968 play by American dramatist Arthur Miller that explores family conflict, memory, and the cost of choices through the story of two estranged brothers dividing their late father's possessions.
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C.
The Pact
The Pact is a 2012 supernatural horror film that follows a woman uncovering dark secrets in her childhood home after her sister mysteriously disappears.
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D.
The Sacrifice
The Sacrifice is a 1986 philosophical drama film by Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky that explores faith, sacrifice, and existential dread against the backdrop of an impending nuclear apocalypse.
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E.
The Consequences
The Consequences is a notable work associated with the creator or project known as Consequence, recognized for its significance within their body of work.
- 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: The Payback Target entity description: The Payback is a 1973 funk album by James Brown, widely regarded as one of his most influential and sampled works, featuring extended grooves and socially charged themes.
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A.
The Price You Pay
"The Price You Pay" is a song by Bruce Springsteen from his 1980 album *The River*, reflecting themes of sacrifice and the consequences of life’s choices.
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B.
The Price
The Price is a 1968 play by American dramatist Arthur Miller that explores family conflict, memory, and the cost of choices through the story of two estranged brothers dividing their late father's possessions.
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C.
The Pact
The Pact is a 2012 supernatural horror film that follows a woman uncovering dark secrets in her childhood home after her sister mysteriously disappears.
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D.
The Sacrifice
The Sacrifice is a 1986 philosophical drama film by Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky that explores faith, sacrifice, and existential dread against the backdrop of an impending nuclear apocalypse.
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E.
The Consequences
The Consequences is a notable work associated with the creator or project known as Consequence, recognized for its significance within their body of work.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
funk album
ⓘ
studio album ⓘ |
| artist | James Brown ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| criticalReception | widely regarded as one of James Brown's most influential albums ⓘ |
| era | 1970s funk ⓘ |
| featuresInstrument |
bass guitar
ⓘ
drum kit ⓘ electric guitar ⓘ horn section ⓘ |
| featuresPerformer | The J.B.'s ⓘ |
| follows | Get on the Good Foot ⓘ |
| genre | funk ⓘ |
| hasCoverArt | The Payback album cover ⓘ |
| hasMusicalStyle | extended grooves ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Doing the Best I Can
ⓘ
linked to:
Doin’ the Best I Can
Forever Suffering ⓘ Mind Power ⓘ Shoot Your Shot ⓘ Stone to the Bone ⓘ Take Some... Leave Some ⓘ The Payback (song) ⓘ
linked to:
The Payback
Time Is Running Out Fast ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
revenge
ⓘ
social commentary ⓘ urban struggle ⓘ |
| influence |
R&B music
ⓘ
funk music ⓘ hip hop music ⓘ |
| isPartOf | James Brown discography ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| length | approximately 73 minutes ⓘ |
| mediaType |
compact disc
ⓘ
digital album ⓘ vinyl record ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic |
heavily sampled in hip hop
ⓘ
minimalist, repetitive arrangements ⓘ prominent rhythm section grooves ⓘ |
| notableWorkOf | James Brown ⓘ |
| numberOfDiscs | 2 ⓘ |
| numberOfTracks | 8 ⓘ |
| performer | James Brown ⓘ |
| precedes | Hell ⓘ |
| producer |
Fred Wesley
ⓘ
James Brown ⓘ James Brown Productions ⓘ |
| recordedIn | 1973 ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Polydor Records ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1973 ⓘ |
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: The Payback Description of subject: The Payback is a 1973 funk album by James Brown, widely regarded as one of his most influential and sampled works, featuring extended grooves and socially charged themes.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Payback
linked to: The Payback
linked to: The Payback
linked to: The Payback