R.E.M.
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R.E.M. is an influential American rock band, formed in 1980 in Athens, Georgia, known for pioneering alternative rock with hits like "Losing My Religion" and "Everybody Hurts."
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| R.E.M. canonical | 39 |
| R.E.M. – Green | 2 |
| R.E.M | 1 |
| R.E.M. (as session musician/producer) | 1 |
| R.E.M. (band) | 1 |
| R.E.M. – Document | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3073100 — 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: R.E.M. Context triple: [Warner Bros. Records, hasArtist, R.E.M.]
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A.
Pixies
Pixies are an influential American alternative rock band formed in the late 1980s, known for their loud-quiet-loud dynamics, surreal lyrics, and major impact on the grunge and indie rock movements.
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B.
Gin Blossoms
Gin Blossoms are an American rock band best known for their melodic jangle-pop sound and 1990s hits like "Hey Jealousy" and "Found Out About You."
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C.
Talking Heads
Talking Heads were an influential American new wave band formed in the 1970s, known for their art-rock sensibilities, innovative music videos, and the distinctive vocals and songwriting of frontman David Byrne.
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D.
OASIS
OASIS is a global, non-profit consortium that develops, standardizes, and promotes open standards for information exchange and interoperability in areas such as security, web services, and document formats.
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E.
Green Day
Green Day is an American punk rock band, formed in the late 1980s, known for popularizing pop-punk worldwide with albums like "Dookie" and "American Idiot."
- 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: R.E.M. Target entity description: R.E.M. is an influential American rock band, formed in 1980 in Athens, Georgia, known for pioneering alternative rock with hits like "Losing My Religion" and "Everybody Hurts."
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A.
Pixies
Pixies are an influential American alternative rock band formed in the late 1980s, known for their loud-quiet-loud dynamics, surreal lyrics, and major impact on the grunge and indie rock movements.
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B.
Gin Blossoms
Gin Blossoms are an American rock band best known for their melodic jangle-pop sound and 1990s hits like "Hey Jealousy" and "Found Out About You."
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C.
Talking Heads
Talking Heads were an influential American new wave band formed in the 1970s, known for their art-rock sensibilities, innovative music videos, and the distinctive vocals and songwriting of frontman David Byrne.
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D.
OASIS
OASIS is a global, non-profit consortium that develops, standardizes, and promotes open standards for information exchange and interoperability in areas such as security, web services, and document formats.
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E.
Green Day
Green Day is an American punk rock band, formed in the late 1980s, known for popularizing pop-punk worldwide with albums like "Dookie" and "American Idiot."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (62)
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: R.E.M. Description of subject: R.E.M. is an influential American rock band, formed in 1980 in Athens, Georgia, known for pioneering alternative rock with hits like "Losing My Religion" and "Everybody Hurts."
Referenced by (45)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Athens
subject linked to:
The 40 Watt Club
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subject linked to:
Widespread Panic (band) origin scene
subject linked to:
Windmill Lane Studios, Dublin
linked to: R.E.M.
linked to: R.E.M.
linked to: R.E.M.
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linked to: R.E.M.