Big Red Machine
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Big Red Machine is an indie-folk/electronic music project and supergroup co-founded by Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon and The National’s Aaron Dessner, known for its collaborative, experimental sound.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Big Red Machine canonical | 16 |
| Big Red Machine (album) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3139026 — 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: Big Red Machine Context triple: [Justin Vernon, associatedAct, Big Red Machine]
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Big Red Machine
Big Red Machine refers to the dominant Cincinnati Reds teams of the 1970s, renowned for their powerful lineup, multiple World Series titles, and status as one of baseball’s greatest dynasties.
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Reflektor
Reflektor is a 2013 double album by Canadian indie rock band Arcade Fire that blends rock, dance, and art-pop influences and marked a stylistic shift in their sound.
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Backspacer
Backspacer is a 2009 studio album by American rock band Pearl Jam that showcases a more concise, melodic, and upbeat sound compared to much of their earlier work.
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Knight of Cups
Knight of Cups is a 2015 introspective drama film directed by Terrence Malick, known for its impressionistic narrative and visually poetic cinematography.
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Red Machine
Red Machine is the legendary Soviet Union national ice hockey team renowned for its dominant, disciplined, and technically brilliant style of play during the Cold War era.
- 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: Big Red Machine Target entity description: Big Red Machine is an indie-folk/electronic music project and supergroup co-founded by Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon and The National’s Aaron Dessner, known for its collaborative, experimental sound.
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A.
Big Red Machine
Big Red Machine refers to the dominant Cincinnati Reds teams of the 1970s, renowned for their powerful lineup, multiple World Series titles, and status as one of baseball’s greatest dynasties.
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B.
Reflektor
Reflektor is a 2013 double album by Canadian indie rock band Arcade Fire that blends rock, dance, and art-pop influences and marked a stylistic shift in their sound.
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C.
Backspacer
Backspacer is a 2009 studio album by American rock band Pearl Jam that showcases a more concise, melodic, and upbeat sound compared to much of their earlier work.
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D.
Knight of Cups
Knight of Cups is a 2015 introspective drama film directed by Terrence Malick, known for its impressionistic narrative and visually poetic cinematography.
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E.
Red Machine
Red Machine is the legendary Soviet Union national ice hockey team renowned for its dominant, disciplined, and technically brilliant style of play during the Cold War era.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Big Red Machine Description of subject: Big Red Machine is an indie-folk/electronic music project and supergroup co-founded by Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon and The National’s Aaron Dessner, known for its collaborative, experimental sound.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Aaron Dessner – guitar, keyboards, production
subject linked to:
Aaron Dessner – guitar, keyboards, production
linked to: Big Red Machine