The Strokes
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The Strokes are an American rock band formed in New York City in the late 1990s, widely credited with helping revive and popularize garage rock and indie rock in the early 2000s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Strokes canonical | 18 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2641752 — 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 Strokes Context triple: [The Rolling Stones, hasInfluenced, The Strokes]
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A.
Weezer
Weezer is an American rock band known for its catchy power-pop sound, self-titled “Blue Album,” and influential role in 1990s alternative rock.
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B.
Arcade Fire
Arcade Fire is a Canadian indie rock band known for its grand, orchestral sound, emotionally charged lyrics, and critically acclaimed albums like "Funeral" and "The Suburbs."
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C.
Gaslight Anthem
Gaslight Anthem is an American rock band from New Jersey known for its heartland punk sound, blue-collar storytelling, and frequent comparisons to Bruce Springsteen.
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D.
The Killers
The Killers are an American rock band from Las Vegas known for their anthemic, Springsteen-tinged indie rock hits like "Mr. Brightside" and "When You Were Young."
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E.
The Killers
The Killers is a 1946 American film noir crime drama, based on an Ernest Hemingway short story, that helped launch Burt Lancaster’s film career and is regarded as a classic of the genre.
- 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 Strokes Target entity description: The Strokes are an American rock band formed in New York City in the late 1990s, widely credited with helping revive and popularize garage rock and indie rock in the early 2000s.
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A.
Weezer
Weezer is an American rock band known for its catchy power-pop sound, self-titled “Blue Album,” and influential role in 1990s alternative rock.
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B.
Arcade Fire
Arcade Fire is a Canadian indie rock band known for its grand, orchestral sound, emotionally charged lyrics, and critically acclaimed albums like "Funeral" and "The Suburbs."
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C.
Gaslight Anthem
Gaslight Anthem is an American rock band from New Jersey known for its heartland punk sound, blue-collar storytelling, and frequent comparisons to Bruce Springsteen.
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D.
The Killers
The Killers are an American rock band from Las Vegas known for their anthemic, Springsteen-tinged indie rock hits like "Mr. Brightside" and "When You Were Young."
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E.
The Killers
The Killers is a 1946 American film noir crime drama, based on an Ernest Hemingway short story, that helped launch Burt Lancaster’s film career and is regarded as a classic of the genre.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (60)
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 Strokes Description of subject: The Strokes are an American rock band formed in New York City in the late 1990s, widely credited with helping revive and popularize garage rock and indie rock in the early 2000s.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.