The Manhattan Transfer
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The Manhattan Transfer is an American vocal group renowned for its intricate harmonies and jazz-influenced pop arrangements, active since the 1970s.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3047399 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Manhattan Transfer Context triple: [Route 66, hasNotableCoverVersionBy, The Manhattan Transfer]
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The 5th Dimension
The 5th Dimension is an American pop and R&B vocal group best known for its lush harmonies and late-1960s hits like "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In" and "Up, Up and Away."
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Chick Corea Elektric Band
Chick Corea Elektric Band is a pioneering jazz fusion group led by keyboardist Chick Corea, known for its virtuosic performances and innovative blend of jazz, rock, and electronic sounds.
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C.
Golden Gate Quartet
The Golden Gate Quartet is an influential American gospel vocal group, formed in the 1930s, renowned for its close harmonies, rhythmic innovation, and major impact on the development of gospel and popular music.
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Soul Men
Soul Men is a 2008 American musical comedy film starring Samuel L. Jackson and Bernie Mac as former soul singers reuniting for a tribute performance.
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The Hot Band
The Hot Band was Emmylou Harris’s acclaimed backing group in the 1970s, known for its virtuoso country-rock musicians and influential role in shaping her signature sound.
- 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 Manhattan Transfer Target entity description: The Manhattan Transfer is an American vocal group renowned for its intricate harmonies and jazz-influenced pop arrangements, active since the 1970s.
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A.
The 5th Dimension
The 5th Dimension is an American pop and R&B vocal group best known for its lush harmonies and late-1960s hits like "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In" and "Up, Up and Away."
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B.
Chick Corea Elektric Band
Chick Corea Elektric Band is a pioneering jazz fusion group led by keyboardist Chick Corea, known for its virtuosic performances and innovative blend of jazz, rock, and electronic sounds.
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C.
Golden Gate Quartet
The Golden Gate Quartet is an influential American gospel vocal group, formed in the 1930s, renowned for its close harmonies, rhythmic innovation, and major impact on the development of gospel and popular music.
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D.
Soul Men
Soul Men is a 2008 American musical comedy film starring Samuel L. Jackson and Bernie Mac as former soul singers reuniting for a tribute performance.
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E.
The Hot Band
The Hot Band was Emmylou Harris’s acclaimed backing group in the 1970s, known for its virtuoso country-rock musicians and influential role in shaping her signature sound.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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 Manhattan Transfer Description of subject: The Manhattan Transfer is an American vocal group renowned for its intricate harmonies and jazz-influenced pop arrangements, active since the 1970s.
Referenced by (78)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
song "Route 66"
subject linked to:
I’ll Be Around
linked to: The Manhattan Transfer
linked to: The Manhattan Transfer
linked to: The Manhattan Transfer
linked to: The Manhattan Transfer
subject linked to:
Chanson d’Amour
subject linked to:
Chanson d’Amour