Weather Report
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Weather Report was a pioneering American jazz fusion band formed in the early 1970s, known for its innovative blend of jazz, rock, and world music and for featuring prominent musicians like Wayne Shorter and Joe Zawinul.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Weather Report canonical | 83 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2247499 — 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: Weather Report Context triple: [Wayne Shorter, memberOf, Weather Report]
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A.
Google Weather
Google Weather is a built-in Google service that provides current conditions, forecasts, and related meteorological data within Google’s apps and interfaces.
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B.
Weather Machine
Weather Machine is a kinetic bronze and stainless-steel sculpture in Portland, Oregon, that theatrically forecasts the day's weather with sound, light, and changing metal symbols.
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C.
Weather Prediction Center
The Weather Prediction Center is a U.S. government meteorological center that provides national forecasts and analyses of heavy rainfall, winter storms, and other significant weather events.
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D.
Weather Forecast Offices
Weather Forecast Offices are regional National Weather Service facilities responsible for monitoring local atmospheric conditions and issuing forecasts, warnings, and weather-related advisories to the public and emergency managers.
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E.
World Weather Watch
World Weather Watch is a global program that coordinates the collection, processing, and exchange of meteorological data to support weather forecasting and climate monitoring worldwide.
- 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: Weather Report Target entity description: Weather Report was a pioneering American jazz fusion band formed in the early 1970s, known for its innovative blend of jazz, rock, and world music and for featuring prominent musicians like Wayne Shorter and Joe Zawinul.
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A.
Google Weather
Google Weather is a built-in Google service that provides current conditions, forecasts, and related meteorological data within Google’s apps and interfaces.
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B.
Weather Machine
Weather Machine is a kinetic bronze and stainless-steel sculpture in Portland, Oregon, that theatrically forecasts the day's weather with sound, light, and changing metal symbols.
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C.
Weather Prediction Center
The Weather Prediction Center is a U.S. government meteorological center that provides national forecasts and analyses of heavy rainfall, winter storms, and other significant weather events.
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D.
Weather Forecast Offices
Weather Forecast Offices are regional National Weather Service facilities responsible for monitoring local atmospheric conditions and issuing forecasts, warnings, and weather-related advisories to the public and emergency managers.
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E.
World Weather Watch
World Weather Watch is a global program that coordinates the collection, processing, and exchange of meteorological data to support weather forecasting and climate monitoring worldwide.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (56)
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: Weather Report Description of subject: Weather Report was a pioneering American jazz fusion band formed in the early 1970s, known for its innovative blend of jazz, rock, and world music and for featuring prominent musicians like Wayne Shorter and Joe Zawinul.
Referenced by (83)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Zawinul
subject linked to:
Heavy Weather (album)
subject linked to:
Heavy Weather (album)
subject linked to:
Don Juan's Reckless Daughter (Joni Mitchell album)