Run-D.M.C.
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Run-D.M.C. is a pioneering American hip hop group from Queens, New York, widely credited with helping bring rap music into the mainstream during the 1980s.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Run-D.M.C. canonical | 81 |
| Run-DMC | 15 |
| Run–D.M.C. | 5 |
| Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (as a member of Run-D.M.C., 2009) | 1 |
| Run-D.M.C. (group) | 1 |
| Run‑D.M.C. | 1 |
| pioneering hip hop group Run-D.M.C. | 1 |
| rap group Run–D.M.C. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2521529 — 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: Run-D.M.C. Context triple: [Yo! MTV Raps, featuredArtist, Run-D.M.C.]
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A.
Beastie Boys
Beastie Boys were a pioneering New York City hip hop group known for their genre-blending sound, irreverent humor, and influential albums like "Licensed to Ill" and "Paul's Boutique."
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B.
Wu-Tang Clan
Wu-Tang Clan is a highly influential American hip hop collective from Staten Island, New York, renowned for its gritty sound, martial arts-inspired aesthetic, and impact on 1990s rap culture.
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C.
Salt-N-Pepa
Salt-N-Pepa is a pioneering American female hip hop trio known for their groundbreaking role in bringing feminist themes and mainstream success to rap music in the late 1980s and 1990s.
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D.
De La Soul
De La Soul is an influential American hip hop trio from Long Island known for their innovative, jazz-influenced sound and playful, socially conscious lyrics.
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E.
Blondie
Blondie is an American rock band formed in the mid-1970s, best known for pioneering the new wave and punk scenes with hits like "Heart of Glass" and "Call Me."
- 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: Run-D.M.C. Target entity description: Run-D.M.C. is a pioneering American hip hop group from Queens, New York, widely credited with helping bring rap music into the mainstream during the 1980s.
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A.
Beastie Boys
Beastie Boys were a pioneering New York City hip hop group known for their genre-blending sound, irreverent humor, and influential albums like "Licensed to Ill" and "Paul's Boutique."
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B.
Wu-Tang Clan
Wu-Tang Clan is a highly influential American hip hop collective from Staten Island, New York, renowned for its gritty sound, martial arts-inspired aesthetic, and impact on 1990s rap culture.
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C.
Salt-N-Pepa
Salt-N-Pepa is a pioneering American female hip hop trio known for their groundbreaking role in bringing feminist themes and mainstream success to rap music in the late 1980s and 1990s.
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D.
De La Soul
De La Soul is an influential American hip hop trio from Long Island known for their innovative, jazz-influenced sound and playful, socially conscious lyrics.
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E.
Blondie
Blondie is an American rock band formed in the mid-1970s, best known for pioneering the new wave and punk scenes with hits like "Heart of Glass" and "Call Me."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Run-D.M.C. Description of subject: Run-D.M.C. is a pioneering American hip hop group from Queens, New York, widely credited with helping bring rap music into the mainstream during the 1980s.
Referenced by (106)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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subject linked to:
Walk This Way with Run-DMC
linked to: Run-D.M.C.
subject linked to:
Walk This Way with Run-DMC
linked to: Run-D.M.C.
linked to: Run-D.M.C.
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Live Aid concert
linked to: Run-D.M.C.
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It’s Tricky
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It’s Tricky
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It’s Tricky