The Flaming Lips
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The Flaming Lips are an American experimental rock band known for their psychedelic sound, elaborate live shows, and critically acclaimed albums like "The Soft Bulletin" and "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots."
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Flaming Lips canonical | 137 |
| The Flaming Lips discography | 6 |
| Flaming Lips | 1 |
| The Flaming Lips (early recordings) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3092444 — 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 Flaming Lips Context triple: [Reprise Records, catalogIncludes, The Flaming Lips]
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A.
Lord Huron
Lord Huron is an American indie folk band known for its cinematic, atmospheric sound and storytelling-driven songs such as "The Night We Met."
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B.
Modest Mouse
Modest Mouse is an American indie rock band known for its eclectic sound, introspective lyrics, and influential albums like "The Moon & Antarctica" and "Good News for People Who Love Bad News."
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C.
The Dandy Warhols
The Dandy Warhols are an American alternative rock band from Portland, Oregon, known for their catchy, guitar-driven sound and songs like "Bohemian Like You."
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D.
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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E.
Royal Trux
Royal Trux is an American experimental rock duo known for their lo-fi, noise-infused sound and influential role in the 1990s indie and underground rock scenes.
- 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 Flaming Lips Target entity description: The Flaming Lips are an American experimental rock band known for their psychedelic sound, elaborate live shows, and critically acclaimed albums like "The Soft Bulletin" and "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots."
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A.
Lord Huron
Lord Huron is an American indie folk band known for its cinematic, atmospheric sound and storytelling-driven songs such as "The Night We Met."
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B.
Modest Mouse
Modest Mouse is an American indie rock band known for its eclectic sound, introspective lyrics, and influential albums like "The Moon & Antarctica" and "Good News for People Who Love Bad News."
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C.
The Dandy Warhols
The Dandy Warhols are an American alternative rock band from Portland, Oregon, known for their catchy, guitar-driven sound and songs like "Bohemian Like You."
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D.
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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E.
Royal Trux
Royal Trux is an American experimental rock duo known for their lo-fi, noise-infused sound and influential role in the 1990s indie and underground rock scenes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (77)
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 Flaming Lips Description of subject: The Flaming Lips are an American experimental rock band known for their psychedelic sound, elaborate live shows, and critically acclaimed albums like "The Soft Bulletin" and "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots."
Referenced by (145)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Coyne
linked to: The Flaming Lips
linked to: The Flaming Lips
linked to: The Flaming Lips
linked to: The Flaming Lips