Bad Penny
E417061
"Bad Penny" is a song by the American noise rock band Big Black, featured on their influential 1987 album *Songs About Fucking*.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bad Penny canonical | 2 |
| A Bad Penny | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4161254 — 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: Bad Penny Context triple: [Songs About Fucking, hasTrack, Bad Penny]
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A.
Bad Penny Blues
Bad Penny Blues is a 1956 British jazz single by trumpeter Humphrey Lyttelton, noted for its influential piano riff and status as one of the first UK jazz records to enter the pop charts.
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B.
Penny Lover
"Penny Lover" is a romantic R&B ballad by Lionel Richie, released in 1983 as one of the hit singles from his multi-platinum album "Can't Slow Down."
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C.
Le Tote
Le Tote is a fashion rental subscription service company that expanded into traditional retail by acquiring the historic department store chain Lord & Taylor.
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D.
Dead for a Dollar
Dead for a Dollar is a 2022 American Western film directed by Walter Hill that follows a bounty hunter on a perilous mission in Mexico, featuring Rachel Brosnahan in a prominent role.
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E.
Fools Gold
"Fools Gold" is a seminal 1989 Madchester-era single by The Stone Roses, renowned for its funky, dance-oriented groove and influential role in bridging indie rock with dance music.
- 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: Bad Penny Target entity description: "Bad Penny" is a song by the American noise rock band Big Black, featured on their influential 1987 album *Songs About Fucking*.
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A.
Bad Penny Blues
Bad Penny Blues is a 1956 British jazz single by trumpeter Humphrey Lyttelton, noted for its influential piano riff and status as one of the first UK jazz records to enter the pop charts.
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B.
Penny Lover
"Penny Lover" is a romantic R&B ballad by Lionel Richie, released in 1983 as one of the hit singles from his multi-platinum album "Can't Slow Down."
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C.
Le Tote
Le Tote is a fashion rental subscription service company that expanded into traditional retail by acquiring the historic department store chain Lord & Taylor.
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D.
Dead for a Dollar
Dead for a Dollar is a 2022 American Western film directed by Walter Hill that follows a bounty hunter on a perilous mission in Mexico, featuring Rachel Brosnahan in a prominent role.
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E.
Fools Gold
"Fools Gold" is a seminal 1989 Madchester-era single by The Stone Roses, renowned for its funky, dance-oriented groove and influential role in bridging indie rock with dance music.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
musical work
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| album | Songs About Fucking ⓘ |
| artist | Big Black ⓘ |
| composer | Steve Albini ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfRecording |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| genre |
noise rock
ⓘ
post-hardcore ⓘ |
| hasType | studio recording ⓘ |
| includedIn | Songs About Fucking ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Steve Albini ⓘ |
| medium |
compact disc
ⓘ
vinyl record ⓘ |
| musicStyleCharacteristic |
aggressive vocals
ⓘ
distorted guitar sound ⓘ drum machine percussion ⓘ |
| notableFor | being part of the influential album Songs About Fucking ⓘ |
| partOfAlbum | Songs About Fucking ⓘ |
| performer | Big Black ⓘ |
| performingBandCountryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| producer | Steve Albini ⓘ |
| recordingArtistNationality | American ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Touch and Go Records ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1987 ⓘ |
| title | Bad Penny ⓘ |
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: Bad Penny Description of subject: "Bad Penny" is a song by the American noise rock band Big Black, featured on their influential 1987 album *Songs About Fucking*.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Bad Penny