REO Speedwagon
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REO Speedwagon is an American rock band, formed in the late 1960s, best known for its arena rock sound and hit power ballads like "Keep On Loving You" and "Can't Fight This Feeling."
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| REO Speed Wagon | 3 |
| REO Speedwagon canonical | 2 |
| REO Speedwagon (1971 album) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2365868 — 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: REO Speedwagon Context triple: [Muskegon Summer Celebration, notablePerformer, REO Speedwagon]
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A.
Cheap Trick
Cheap Trick is an American rock band formed in the 1970s, known for blending power pop and hard rock and for hits like "I Want You to Want Me" and "Surrender."
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B.
Styx
Styx is a small outer moon of the dwarf planet Pluto, located between the orbits of Charon and Nix in the Pluto system.
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C.
Styx
Styx is an American rock band best known for its blend of progressive rock and hard rock, producing hits like "Come Sail Away," "Renegade," and "Babe."
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D.
Styx
Styx is a primordial goddess and river of the Underworld in Greek mythology, famed as the sacred boundary over which the gods swore unbreakable oaths.
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E.
Ratt
Ratt is an American glam metal band that rose to prominence in the 1980s with hits like "Round and Round" and became a key act in the Los Angeles hard rock scene.
- 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: REO Speedwagon Target entity description: REO Speedwagon is an American rock band, formed in the late 1960s, best known for its arena rock sound and hit power ballads like "Keep On Loving You" and "Can't Fight This Feeling."
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A.
Cheap Trick
Cheap Trick is an American rock band formed in the 1970s, known for blending power pop and hard rock and for hits like "I Want You to Want Me" and "Surrender."
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B.
Styx
Styx is an American rock band best known for its blend of progressive rock and hard rock, producing hits like "Come Sail Away," "Renegade," and "Babe."
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C.
Styx
Styx is a small outer moon of the dwarf planet Pluto, located between the orbits of Charon and Nix in the Pluto system.
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D.
Styx
Styx is a primordial goddess and river of the Underworld in Greek mythology, famed as the sacred boundary over which the gods swore unbreakable oaths.
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E.
Ratt
Ratt is an American glam metal band that rose to prominence in the 1980s with hits like "Round and Round" and became a key act in the Los Angeles hard rock scene.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
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: REO Speedwagon Description of subject: REO Speedwagon is an American rock band, formed in the late 1960s, best known for its arena rock sound and hit power ballads like "Keep On Loving You" and "Can't Fight This Feeling."
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Muskegon Summer Celebration (historical)
linked to: REO Speedwagon
linked to: REO Speedwagon
linked to: REO Speedwagon
subject linked to:
REO brand
linked to: REO Speedwagon