Modern Rock Tracks
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Modern Rock Tracks was the former name of Billboard's U.S. chart that ranked popular alternative rock songs based on radio airplay.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Modern Rock Tracks canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3121740 — 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: Modern Rock Tracks Context triple: [US Alternative Songs chart, formerName, Modern Rock Tracks]
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A.
RocknRolla
RocknRolla is a 2008 British crime comedy film directed by Guy Ritchie, featuring an ensemble cast in a story about London’s criminal underworld and a high-stakes real estate scam.
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B.
Rockit
"Rockit" is a groundbreaking 1983 jazz-funk and electro track by Herbie Hancock, widely recognized for its innovative use of turntablism and music video that helped bring scratching into the mainstream.
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C.
MTV Hits
MTV Hits is a music television channel focused on playing contemporary hit music videos and related pop culture programming.
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D.
Odeo
Odeo was an early podcasting startup co-founded by the team behind Obvious Corporation that played a key role in the creation of Twitter.
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E.
Rocks Off
"Rocks Off" is a high-energy rock song by The Rolling Stones, best known as the opening track of their acclaimed 1972 album Exile on Main St.
- 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: Modern Rock Tracks Target entity description: Modern Rock Tracks was the former name of Billboard's U.S. chart that ranked popular alternative rock songs based on radio airplay.
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A.
RocknRolla
RocknRolla is a 2008 British crime comedy film directed by Guy Ritchie, featuring an ensemble cast in a story about London’s criminal underworld and a high-stakes real estate scam.
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B.
Rockit
"Rockit" is a groundbreaking 1983 jazz-funk and electro track by Herbie Hancock, widely recognized for its innovative use of turntablism and music video that helped bring scratching into the mainstream.
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C.
MTV Hits
MTV Hits is a music television channel focused on playing contemporary hit music videos and related pop culture programming.
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D.
Odeo
Odeo was an early podcasting startup co-founded by the team behind Obvious Corporation that played a key role in the creation of Twitter.
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E.
Rocks Off
"Rocks Off" is a high-energy rock song by The Rolling Stones, best known as the opening track of their acclaimed 1972 album Exile on Main St.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Billboard chart
ⓘ
music industry standard chart ⓘ record chart ⓘ |
| basedOn | radio airplay ⓘ |
| chartType | airplay chart ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| focus | alternative rock radio airplay in the United States ⓘ |
| formerNameOf |
Alternative Songs
ⓘ
linked to:
US Alternative Songs chart
|
| genre |
alternative rock
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modern rock ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
Billboard charts
ⓘ
linked to:
Billboard
record charts established in the 1980s ⓘ rock music charts ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| measures | radio airplay popularity ⓘ |
| medium | radio ⓘ |
| organization |
Billboard magazine
ⓘ
linked to:
Billboard
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| publisher | Billboard ⓘ |
| ranked | popular alternative rock songs ⓘ |
| scope | U.S. radio stations ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
Billboard magazine
ⓘ
linked to:
Billboard
|
| usedBy |
music industry
ⓘ
radio programmers ⓘ record labels ⓘ |
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: Modern Rock Tracks Description of subject: Modern Rock Tracks was the former name of Billboard's U.S. chart that ranked popular alternative rock songs based on radio airplay.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.